The Bharat Sevashram Sangha, a pioneer registered charitable organization estd, In 1917, was founded by the great illustrious patriot saint Acharya Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj. Nearly 500 Monks and Brahamacharis are running hundreds of charitable dispensaries, Hospitals, Mobile Medical Units, Ambulances, Patient homes, Cancer & Leprosy Hospitals, Tribal Welfare centers, Free residential education for nearly 5000 students ( in collaboration with Govt. of India) in Jharkhand, Nagaland, Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal etc. Schools & Technical institutes, Women empowerment centers, Youth welfare centers etc. besides Relief work during hours of natural calamities of flood, famine, earthquake in any part of country.
The Sangha’s first disaster relief project can be traced to 1923 with the Bengal Famine. Through the last 89 years the Sangha has responded to natural calamities such as the West Bengal Floods (1978, 1998, and 2001), Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1980), Cyclone in Andhra Pradesh (1996), and Super cyclone in Orissa (1999), Bhuj earthquake (2001), Mumbai & Gujarat Flash Flood (2005). Aeyla, Flood relief in Bihar and Assam and Bulbul affected relief are recent work.
Services to the sick and ailing forms a core of the Sangha’s operations. Spread over the country 46 branches and 300 sub-centres maintain hospitals and charitable dispensaries in urban and rural areas. Mobile medical dispensaries reach out to the remotest parts of the country. Health care and awareness programmes on leprosy eradication. TB control, malaria, filarial and diarrhea camps are regularly organized.
Pranavananda Computer Institute
The Sangha has setup a computer training institute for underprivileged students at Kolkata. Courses are offered at subsidized cost and include modules such as DOS, E-Commerce, HTML, DHTML, Internet, E-mail, F.A., Multimedia and Java scripting. 850 students enrolled in centres in and around Kolkata.
Scripture Studies
The Sangha, since 1949, has setup a department for organizing scriptural studies among the student community. Regular 3-year graduated level courses are offered by the Sangha. Free copies of scriptures are provided to the students. In rural areas, teaching aids such as lantern slides are used by the instructors. In the year under review, 9000 students from 400 schools and colleges students appeared in the annual examination through 32 centres. Twenty four successful students were given awards.
Physical Education
The Sangha believes in proper physical education and imparts instructions in the art of self-defence through its centres and Milan Mandir throughout the country. Courses are imparted in wrestling, boxing, ju-jitsu and tradition martial arts. The Sangha lays great emphasis in yogic exercises (yogasanas) and has several yoga training centres in different parts of the country.
A large majority of India’s population has little or no access to educational opportunities. Realising that the spread of education in rural and semi urban areas is crucial to the development of the nation, the Sangha operates more than a 100 institutions in the country providing quality education to disadvantaged children. This combined with vocational training programs empower the youth to be self-sufficient and economically independent.
The Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a pioneer registered charitable organization serving country for last 100 years. Its services during the hours of natural calamities, flood, famine, earthquake etc., running hundreds of charitable dispensaries, hospitals, mobile medical units, leprosy and cancer treatment centre, tribal welfare and upliftment.
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