Commercial Institute

SPOTLIGHT

The Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur is a branch of Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. It was founded by Swami Lokeswarananda in 1956. Prior to its inception, he was in-charge of a “Students’ Home” run by the Mission in North Kolkata. Accordingly, with 12 students from there he first established a similar Home in tents at Narendrapur. Next year, i.e. in 1957, he opened another Home for the visually handicapped children which afterward took the shape of the Blind Boys’ Academy.

It offered training in Shorthand and Typewriting in English & Bengali to 43 boys and 23 girls. A spoken English Course of six months duration, for 43 (16 boys & 28 girls) students, was also organized in it. Its Computer Section provided courses in Office Management, DTP, Financial Accounting, Multimedia, Auto-Cad, Computer Hard-ware and Internet to 482 (Boys 297 and Girls 215) trainees of which 114 were S.C/S.T./OBC. There were 10 part free students in Computer Section. The durations of these Courses were of 8 months, 15 months, 6 months and 6 months respectively.