Service
of God
in Man.
A branch centre of the Ramakrishna Mutt and Mission, on the edge of Bannerghatta forest. Education, healthcare, rural development, and forest regeneration — work begun in 1984.
"Ātmano Mokṣārtham Jagad-hitāya Cha"
For one's own salvation · and for the welfare of the worldRamakrishna Mission, Shivanahalli is a branch of the Ramakrishna Mutt and Mission, Belur — a philanthropic, volunteer organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda on May 1, 1897.
Education, healthcare, rural development, and the forest.
Sri Ramakrishna Vidya Kendra, Sri Sarada Devi Vidya Kendra
Two schools serving tribal and rural families — SRVK, a Kannada-medium primary established in 1984, and SSVK, a CBSE-affiliated English-medium wing.
Sri Sarada Devi Chikitsa Kendra
A medical facility that has run for thirty-five years. Specialty clinics on Sunday — when daily-wage workers are not at work, and Bengaluru specialists are free to volunteer. A mobile unit reaches surrounding hamlets twice a week.
Self-help groups, watershed work, dairy
Twenty-one women's self-help groups across surrounding hamlets. NABARD-supported watershed work that raised local groundwater, and milk co-operatives linked to the Bengaluru dairy network.
Brahmananda Vana
One hundred and thirty acres of regenerated forest, contiguous with Bannerghatta National Park, within an active elephant corridor.
A timeline of the work, 1983 to today.
The work began with a youth convention held in Bengaluru in 1983, and a survey of the hilly tracts to the south — a cluster of hamlets thirty kilometres from the city, then without roads, electricity, or schools. Sri Ramakrishna Gramakshema Trust was registered the following year. What followed has unfolded over four decades.
A regenerated forest, since 1989.
One hundred and thirty acres of dense tree cover and interlinked ponds, now functioning as an ecological extension of Bannerghatta National Park. Forty years of patient native planting and protection.
The Indian Institute of Science has, in recent assessments, documented the ecosystem service value, the carbon stored, and the biodiversity the forest now supports — including the Grey Slender Loris, more than two hundred bird taxa, and the elephant corridor that runs through it.
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Donations are eligible for 80G tax exemption.
The Mission is sustained by individuals, philanthropies, and CSR partners. Contributions support all four areas of work.
↗Doctors for Sunday clinics, teachers, plantation hands.
If you have a skill that can be useful here, please write. There are no bars based on age, religion, or community.
↗Anekal Taluk, about thirty kilometres from Bengaluru.
Please write ahead. The campus is a working ashram, and visits are arranged in coordination with the resident monks.
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