Ramakrishna
Mission (Ceylon Branch)
Batticaloa
Home Activities, Academic Activities
There is a fine deciplened life style is maintained. All get up at the Brahma muhurtam (05:00), do prayers, Asanas and start there lessons and classes. Nourishing meals are supplied, vegetable being obtained by from the farm which is maintained by the boys at Home.
All the students attend school. Shivananda Vidyalaya for boys, Vivekananda Girls' Maha
Vidyalaya and the Ramakrishna Mission Girls' school, Karitivu, cater for girls. While
every effort is given to made the children all facilities for studies.
The boy who followed the
Course in National Certificate of Accounting Technicians has completed his course
successfully and has gone abroad .
The girl in the Eastern
University of Sri Lanka has completed her course of studies and is awaiting results. The
two girls who attend the Vipulananda college of Music & Dance have successfully
completed their course of studies and are serving as volunteer teachers with the hope that
they will get permanent appointments.
The girl at Kalakshetra
Foundation College of Fine Arts, Madras, India has passed out creditably. In addition to
her Post Diploma in vocal music with violin as sub, she has passed out as a Bachelor of
Arts graduate from the University of Madras.This child was the happy recipient of the
Venkatraman Foundation Award in 1996 for the Best student. She is now awaiting a suitable
billet. One of the Ramakrishna Mission student is the Head Boy of Shivananda
Vidyalaya.
The boy who was trained in
heavy vehicle driving has completed his Course in Motor Mechanism at the Manchanthoduwa
Technical College and is now driving the three - wheeler owned by the Mission. He too is
awaiting a suitable billet.