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An Appeal

n early sixties, when the adjoining districts to Ranchi were in the grip of severe drought, this Ashrama
organized distress relief operation. During the relief work, it was strongly felt that unless the resource-
Ipoor and illiterate farmers are trained in need-based agricultural technology supported by group
action, they would never be able to counter similar adverse conditions in future. In order to fulfill the above
requirements a novel integrated rural development model was conceived and a free residential institute
was launched by this centre in 1969 under the name ‘Divyayan’ for imparting training to village youths,
particularly Tribals, in scientific agriculture, dairy, poultry, bee-keeping, horticulture, farm machinery,
carpentry, welding, electrician, pump repairing, etc. and social service. The institute was recognized as
Krishi Viyan Kendra in the year 1977. As a mark of appreciation for its objectives and method of imparting
training right from its inception, it has been awarded as the best KVK amongst nearly 540 KVKs of the
country for the year 1997-98 and as the best KVK in the Zone-IV for the year 2015-16. It has again received
best KVK award for the year 2016-17 amongst nearly 650 KVKs of the country. It is not gainsaying the
fact that Divyayan (meaning Divine Way) has become verily the temple for the worship of God in man.

The objectives of the training programme are to make the village youths self reliant and break free
themselves from the shackles of poverty. After acquiring the skill, it is expected that they will be able to
establish small enterprises related to agriculture and allied trades by using the available local resources. In
this way, they will be employing themselves and may create jobs for others too.

The residential training programmes for the tribals, as mentioned above, are mainly sponsored by the
Ministry of Tribal Welfare(MTW), Govt. of India (GOI) for 80 trainees per year. But the fund sanctioned
and released by the MTW, GOI for these training programmes is too meagre to meet the expenses
over the trainees’ boarding and food , Salary for the Trainers, Administrative staffs, other employees and
establishment. As such we solely depend on the donations from our benevolent donors to meet the
essential extra expenditure to keep up this training programmes for the tribal.

In this context, we would like to appeal for liberal donations from the well wishers and philanthropists
to join us to carry out this novel work for the redemption of poverty in villages.
Donation Can Be Through :

i. Cheques / Demand Draft drawn in favour of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi

ii. RTGS/NEFT
Please note our Bank Details as given below :

A/c Name : Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama A/c Number : 918010106862479
A/c Type : Savings Name of the Bank : Axis Bank

Branch Address : Sai Enclave, Ground Floor, IFSC Code : UTIB0003684
Morabadi, Ranchi - 834008 MICR Code : 834211011

Donation however small are welcome.

Donations are eligible for tax exemption under section 80 ‘G’ of the Indian Income Tax Act 1961. (Donors
are requested to provide their PAN number for issue of money receipt)
May the blessings of the Holy Trio Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda be ever
on you and your family is our prayer.

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