The Formative Years

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Soil of Baranagore is historically blessed with the footprints of Sri Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekanda and other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. The dilapidated and abandoned garden house where Swami Vivekananda, along with brother disciples, set up Baranagore Math in September 1886, after the Mahasamadhi of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa on 16th August, holds a unique place in the spiritual history of the world as the first Monastery of the Ramakrishna Order. Following this tradition of renunciation and service, a small orphanage, ‘Bramhananda Balakashrama’, was established in 1912 at Panja Bhawan, Alambazar, after transition to Lalkuthi, Alambazar and Baranagore Ramakrishna Anath Ashrama, Kutighat, which blossomed into a full-fledged Ashrama at its present address on GLT Road and got recognition of Belur Math. Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, which started its journey on the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya in 1924, really left an indelible mark in the life of hundreds of localites not only by inculcating quality education but also by preaching the spiritual ethos of Lord Sri Ramakrishna, Maa Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda. The primary school was affiliated in 1934, and the higher secondary wing was registered by the Government in 1954. In 1961, Lt. Amitabha Bagchi acquired the first position in the state in the Higher Secondary examination (then, an 11-year course), and the name of Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School spread in the entire West Bengal as an institution of excellence.

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Vision and Mission

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Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School is an institution that has not only equipped its students with formal education but also instilled among them the traditional moral values and lessons of service to mankind. Not only have the students passing out from this institution illuminated society with their glorious, multidimensional professional careers, but they have also tried to offer a helping hand to the poorest of the poor in society. They owe not only to their teachers but to the society at large. In their humble manner so they have tried to come back again and again with their philanthropic offerings.

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        From the very outset, pass-outs of this institution have contributed to society in different ways. While some of them choose the monastic life, Swami Medhasanandaji, Swami Bhaskaratmanandaji, Swami Shastrajnanandaji being some of the most precious gifts this institution has produced for Ramakrishna Math and Mission, many other students became engineer, doctor, Civil Servant, sportsperson, actor, advocate, singer, teacher, politician and made successful career in many other professions.  Besides professional life, alumni of this institution have always participated in philanthropic activities in multiple ways.