Vivekananda Kendra Rural Development Activities Overview (Tamil Lang)
Channel: Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra
Date: 2016-05-20

India lives in villages. Vivekananda Kendra Rural Development Program started in 1982 through various activities with a cultural thrust and  blessings of Swami Ranganathananda of Sri RamaKrishna Math,and Swami Chidbhavananda of Sree RamaKrishna Tapovanam. The aim is to motivate our people to adhere to and nurture the cherished values of our Sanatana Dharma to prevent alien elements weaning away our young men and women from our cultural moorings. Thus was born the project Vivekananda Kendra Rural Development Programme.

The impact of Vivekananda Kendra Rural Development Programme can be summarized as under :
1) A greater awareness of the culture.
2) A greater interest to study our scriptures.
3) A large number of youths coming forward to take up the work after arduous training.
4) A large number of general public supporting the programme.
5) An awakened society ready to withstand any challenges.

The plan was to ..
1) Start a number of small village level centres.
2) Take up such activities that can involve a cluster of village around each centre.
3) Cover as many villages as possible by training village youth in youth camps.
4) Take the message of Sanatana Dharma as interpreted by Swami Vivekananda, to every home, every hamlet, every school, utilizing temples and service activities as the media.
5) Identify, motivate, and train the youths to become active, full time workers of Vivekananda Kendra.

Vivekananda Kendra is a Spiritually Oriented Service Mission working on Swami Vivekananda twin objectives "Man Making - Nation Building".

Website : 1) http://www.vkrdp.org   2) http://www.vivekanandakendra.org