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Address and Activities of
Vivekananda University
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Vivekananda University
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
PO Belur Math, Dist Howrah
West Bengal 711202
Phone: 2654 9999
& 2654 3503
Fax: (Tele) 2654 9999
Email: rkmveri@gmail.com; vivekananda.university@gmail.com
Website: www.rkmvu.ac.in
This multi-campus University,
founded under the aegis of Ramakrishna Mission, came into existence
in July, 2005. Declared as deemed-to-be-university by Ministry of
Human Resource Development, under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, the
University has its head office at Belur and operates through its
various ‘off-campus’ Faculty centres located at different branch
centres of Ramakrishna Mission.
To start with, the following ‘thrust areas’ have
been chosen :
1. Disability Management and Special Education
2. Integrated Rural Development including Tribal
Development
3. Indian Cultural and Spiritual Heritage and
Value Education
4. Disaster Management including Relief and
Rehabilitation
Activities :
1. BEd, MEd, MPhil, PhD
and diploma courses in Special Education (hearing impairment, visual
impairment and mental retardation) under the Faculty of
Disability Management and Special Education and Bachelor’s and
Master’s courses in Physical Education and Adapted Physical
Education (for the handicapped), Yoga and Fitness, and diploma and
postgraduate diploma courses in Special Olympics (for the mentally
retarded) under the Faculty of General and Adapted Physical
Education and Yoga, at Coimbatore Mission branch with 105
students.
2. Diploma course in Integrated Self Development
and postgraduate diploma course in Essentials of Spiritual Heritage
of India, Integrated MA course in Sanskrit, in the School of Indian
Heritage, at the Department of Sanskrit, under the Faculty of
Indian Culture and Spiritual Heritage with 166 students at
Belur.
3. MSc and PhD courses in Integrated Rural
Development and Management, postgraduate diploma course in
Agro-based Biotechnology, and courses on Medicinal Plants and
Ayurvedic Drug Technology, under the Faculty of Integrated Rural
Development and Management, at Narendrapur branch with 24
students.
4. BSc and MSc courses under the Faculty of
Integrated Rural and Tribal Development and postgraduate diploma
course in Agro-based Biotechnology at Ranchi (Morabadi)
centre with 10 students.
5. Vivekananda Research Centre at Swami
Vivekananda’s Ancestral House, Kolkata, for doctoral and
post-doctoral research in mathematical sciences, philosophy, social
sciences, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda thought, consciousness studies,
etc.
6. Rural development activity by setting up Village
Resource Centres (VRCs) under isro to impart tele-education, tele-medicine
knowledge, etc in rural areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand.
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This information on Centre's activities is collected from The General Report
of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission April 2006, (From April 2006
to March 2007)
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