Statesman News Service
MALDA, 12 JAN: Malda Ramkrishna Mission has adopted six tribal villages in Gazole block to help villagers come to par with the mainstream.
Centering a village called Ansol, the Malda Ramkrishna Mission has set up a mobile medical centre for free distribution of medicines and milk thrice a week along with a basic education centre for the tribal children.
The Mission has already distributed blankets and garments among 200 tribal people there. Addressing the media, after observation of National Youth Day today, Swami Parasharananda, secretary of the Malda Ramkrishna Mission, said: “We have observed that tribal people in six villages, nine km from Gazole town, are most neglected, alienated, and also isolated. Many of them have been forcefully converted to Christianity”.
“As per the principles of Swami Vivekananda, they should not be forced to change their religion. We cannot reconvert them but we shall try to arrest them so that they can be brought back to the mainstream of Indian culture and heritage”, said Swami Parasharananda. Malda Ramkrishna Mission has also set up another medical camp and education centre at Palashbari in English Bazaar, close to a centre of the Misionaries of Charity, located at Nityanandapur. Swami Parasharananda said they planned to select another cluster of villages in Chanchal sub division, where the tribal population is also being neglected.
The Ramkrishna Mission today took out a colourful procession and garlanded Swami Vivekananda’s full length statue by important dignitaries on Bandh Road. Nearly three thousand girls and boys from different schools, including students of Vivekananda Vidyamandir, took part in the procession.
Students of Vivekananda Vidyamandir organised a cultural programme to mark the national Youth Day at their school premises today. The deputy director of education department, Mr. Dibyagopal Ghatak , and other officials were present.
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