Ramakrishna Mission Residential College - Autonomous

Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur has completed a difficult but eventful period of 58 years. Started in North Calcutta (Pathuriaghata) immediately after the Bengal Famine in 1943, this branch centre of Ramakrishna Mission had a very humble beginning with a small Students' Home with only three students-poor and orphan-on the rolls. Very noble, though humble to begin with, were the objectives of the effort. To help the poor and unfortunate manifest the best in them through man-making and character-building education and to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunate ones removing all caste and creed distinctions were the objectives. Since its shift to its present site in the southern suburbs of Calcutta, near Garia, 16kms from Rajbhavan, in 1957, the Ashrama has been growing into a large educational complex to achieve those objectives in a more meaningful way. The Ashrama grew not only in size but also in its dimensions through the introduction of very many activities to impart "that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one's own feet".