Official Name of Organisation:  Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission
    Address for communication :

(a)        Regd. Address : Flat No. 2, Ground Floor, 2 Russa Road (South), 3rd. Lane,       Calcutta – 700 033. State – West Bengal.  Mob: 9830276407.

(b)   Office Address :  At  Kathor, P.O : Badu, P.S : Barasat,            

        Dist-North 24 Parganas 700 128, State-West Bengal.

         Contact No. (033) 2526 3417 (O), Fax – (033) 2526 3417.

         Email : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; Website : www.bmission.net

 3.  Chief Contact Persons :

       Name & Designation                                                Mobile Contact

(a) Rev. Dr. Nando Batha – Vice President (W.B)              9830276407

(b) Rev. Dr. U Panyalinkara – President (Bihar)               09934719827

(c)  Mr. Philip Barua – General Secretary.                        9831407608

4. Year of Establishment of the Organisation : 1995.

 5.  Legal Status :

(a)  Type : A non-political, non-profit making, non- caste and gender biased philanthropic voluntary organisation, registered under West Bengal Societies Registration Act  XXVI of 1961,

(b)  Societies Registration No. : S / 81553 dated 31.10.95.

(c)   Regd. Under FCR Act., Regn.  No. 147110495     dated 30.06.2000

(d)  Regd. Under I. T. Act. 12A (dated 17.04.01) / 80 G; No. :  DIT(E)/361 8E/20/2001-2002 dt. 18.07.06

(e)  Regd. PAN No.: AAATR6521P    dated 17.03.05.    

6.  Brief History of its formation :

Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission was established on 31st Oct. 1995 by some eminent Philanthropic minded Social Workers to promote peace, prosperity, and integration through education through voluntary movements. This Voluntary sector has a strong acceptance in Indian as well a Gandhian philosophical context. So under the leadership of few like minded Buddhists  has build–up this  platform for  the same.

Initial thrust was to build safe guarding and self help attitude building and high lightening voluntarism in social & educational development which will lead to the path to serve the poor and downtrodden belongs to the lowest strata of our society and specially for their Socio-Economic-Cultural upliftment and ensure accessibility of life with dignity, rights and self-respect.

The Society has been registered as Non-Government voluntary organization having no affiliation to any political party, caste or creed and religion.  It is a non sectarian non-profit making and non-gender biased  social voluntary organization.

 7.  List of Governing Board Members of the Organisation :

      Designation             Name                                                Address

1. President                   : Rev. Dr. U Panyalinkara          Chinese Buddhist Temple, Bihar, Nalanda-803111.

2.  Vice President          :  Rev. Dr. Nando Batha             Kathor, Badu-700128, Barasat, 24 PGS (N), W.B.        

3. General Secretary      : Mr. Philip Barua                     2/6 Ashiana Apartment,
                                                                               Tarun Sen Gupta Sarani,
                                                                      Airport Gate No. 1, Dum Dum,   KOLKATA-79, W.B.     

4. Assist.  Secretary      : Ashin Pyinnyar Thara    Kathor, Badu-700128, Barasat, 24 PGS (N), W.B.

5. Treasurer                   : Mr. Ugya Jai Mog       Kathor, Badu-700128, Barasat, 24 PGS(N), W.B.

6.  Member                    : Mr. K.Z. Aung Mog      Titabor Chari Ali, Lachit Nagar, Jorhat, Assam.

7.  Member                     : Rev. Ariyawantha Bk               Kathor, Badu-700128, Barasat, 24 PGS (N), W.B.        

8.  Member                     :  Rev. Dhammapiya                  Dhammadipa School, Manubankul, Sabroom, Tripura (S).

9.  Member                     : Ven Khemachara Bhikkhu        Siddhartha Sangha Buddha Vihara,

No 1-10-294, Comsari Bazar, P.O.Bowenpally
Secunderabad 500011, A P

Vision :

 Generous heart, kind speech, life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.

Mission :

Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission ( RRYBSLM) has the mission of improving the quality of human life by strengthening the development capacity through literary and educational activities among the communities which will lead them towards other subjective needs ( with basic amenities ) to live like a human being.

Objectives :

1)    To provide education to poor and needy children.

2)      To promote and encourage advancement of literary, cultural, moral, religious, scientific and technical education.

3)      To set up libraries, hold meetings, seminars and take up other incidental activities to build a knowledgeable, informative and good practicing society.

4)      To exchange and interact with others for mutual understanding of the basic theme of world religion.

5)      To impart the message of “non-violence”, of the Buddha.

6)  To educate and raise awareness regarding preventive and curative health cares, promote knowledge of environment, ecology, water and sanitation, capacity building to combat updated threats of HIV/AIDS, STIs/STDs, TB, Malaria, etc.

7.   To undertake role of reducing gender discriminations, promote the conditions of vulnerable populations specially, the women for their socio-economic liberation and empowerment.

8.      To undertake cultural promotion through knowledge exchange, exposure trips and Rural Tourism Development, creation  of  awareness among the rural peoples for better understanding and build attitude of better service providers.

9.      Promotion of Rural Development programmes to facilitate-Rural life style, Rural employment, Rural Culture and Rural Products Marketing through Rural Tourism.

8.     Activities since inception :

        (a) Education : Under this sector following sub activities have been incorporated –

            Mark Decker Scholarship Program    

Since inception the Mission has given priority to educational sector by helping new students for getting admission to different Institutions.  The Mission has also started to give financial assistance to needy students.  Later it developed as Mark Decker Scholarship Program.  Under this program the Mission has given stipend to 13 needy monk-students in 1998 and 18 students in 2003.  Due to financial crisis for some year we couldn’t give stipend to many students, but it is still continuing.  Under this program last year2010 we could give only two students.

              Pre-School & Primary Education ( Nursery to IV ) :

200 students are enrolled here at Bodhisukha School.  The demand so increasing Mission is not been able to accommodate all the incoming students. Besides, there are community demands to serve so many dis-advantaged students coming from local as well as from other States and Countries. Small accommodation services, accompany only few of them. We are expecting, the number of students will be increasing even more after full completion of our Hostel-cum School Building.   And so the students will get much more benefits/services.

               Formal School Education :

180 students are here admitted in classes from  V to X. These students are mainly belongs to poorer category of population ( Minority Muslims, SCs, STs and Economically under developed General Castes ).   We provide them quality education with much thrust on literacy, numeracy, social and cultural concept promotions among the students and guardians specially the mothers. These services, the parents compared at the existing infrastructure and being discouraged on the performance on that ground, they enrol the students under our care.

               Teacher’s Training :

The involved 12 teachers are brought under training to increase their capacity to handle students, undertake modern methodology of teaching & creation of fearless teaching & learning environment, so that students can courageously grasp the tasks and matters brilliantly.

               English Training :

45 Trainees from India and abroad – Bangladesh, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand participated in this English training residential courses for one month. 

Excursion of Bodhisukha School

Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission is running a school since 2001 with initial assistance from Buddhist Relief Mission of USA.  The school by the name of Bodhisukha School is now giving education to 180 students enrolled in different classes.  As a mark of its seventh year completion, the school is going to organize annual excursion on 20th December 2007.  Students, guardians, teaching staff, non-teaching staff and travel agents are cordially invited to participate in the annual excursion of the year 2007-08.

Bodhisukha School is an English Medium School, giving high quality education, but charging very nominal charges to the students.

The school is very much delighted to give opportunity to the students to experiment themselves during the excursion.

Its our pleasure that community are honouring our performances / achievements.

Beside Meditation classes being regularly held for children. India is a land where there was always an influence of an intrinsic human power which we acquire from meditation. This is a process which dates back to the ancient ages. In Pali (ancient Indian Language) Meditation is known as Vipassana. By practicing Vipassana, the power to develop the concentration of mind in turn helps in doing well in life. It is a therapy to bring in peace and tranquility of mind. As our mind and body are closely related, the healthy mind transmits healthy stimulation to the body.

         (b) Health Care :

Preventive Health Care : Its an activity through which We taught peoples to undertake role to be healthy physically as well as mentally. As We believe that prevention is better than cure. As per our experience, We can prevent 60% of our diseases through awareness, timely protection & care initiatives. So We taught both mother and child regarding the same.

Besides, We undertake an ancient but modern methodology of curing our ailments through Herbal Medicine therapy. We have undertaken an activity to educate community about different herbs, its uses in combating lots of chronic ailments which is low cost, handy, available at closest in the locality as well as most importantly side-effectless.

We also take care of the health of the adolescent. The children of this age are given awareness on that along with necessary training to meet and handle the circumstances.

         (c) Women Empowerment & Economic Self-Reliance :         

In our Society, not only in Indian context but also it’s a universally true that women are been made commodities in our subjective world, made them much more vulnerable where they have every right to leave like we all human being expects. They are deprived. We never acknowledge their role in our family as well as in the whole society.

As per the Beijing Conference Resolutions, We have undertaken several activities to change their socio-economic status, along with a target to build organisation of women through the formation of their Self-Help Groups, Capacity Building to increase their self skill of combating their issues, grasp the power of accessing required services as available in the infrastructures.

Besides, leadership training,  small business promotion to undertake economic activity to involve them in their self-managed, self-controlled income generating programmes. Thus 250 SHGs are already encouraged to undertake such activity and financed under MFIs initially through inter-lending, capitalising local savings. Now We are trying to link with other MFIs, Banks, Ministries and Corporations.

Contacting Ministries of Textiles to undertake the Insurance Scheme – Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Yojana through ICICI Lombard Scheme. Through our 6 States, We are trying to deseminate informations and encouraging women SHGs to undertake the same services.

         (d) Economic Development :

    Under this activity We are undertaking the followings :

(i)    Promoting exercises in understanding poverty & needs of increasing peoples participation.

(ii)   Livelihood Promotion through land/man/community resource.

(iii)  Incorporations  of Vocational skill Promotion for more Self-Employment opportunities.

(iv) Undertaking promotion of Handicraft Artisan’s Skill, supporting them to develop Designing Skill based on Market Demands, linking them with Markets through the Organisation of Melas / Exhibitions held Nationally and Internationally. Our Project States are culturally dominated with Handi-crafts skills. But the involved populations are deprived here. So We have undertaking role to involve them in this movement so that they became enable to own, run and control their business and benefit them through its income rather than hijacking income by the middle man.  

         (e) Culture & Integration :

As you all are aware that our 6 (six) States are dominated by SCs, STs, Minorities and other backward communities. Here nature and culture have made well designed society where lack of integration has created lots of differences and restlessness environment. But the culture never signifies with the present developments. Our Organisation so undertaking to promote the sense of integration, generate sense of hijacked/ruined culture through survey, study, promotion and development for mainstreaming them with convergence action of opportunities of Socio-Economic developments. 

         (f)  Rural / Urban Development :

In spite of rapid growing worlds invasions, trends of urbanisation, We can’t ignore a fact that until or unless we develop rural life, the Nation became under developed. It’s a big balance, certainly rural development facilitates the development of urban sector.

So our Organisation keeping a good balance in undertaking the development of the both. So along with the development of  urban populations, We have been keeping contact with the various national and international organisations to extend this support for Rural Development. CAPART, an organisation under Ministry of Rural Development, has been communicated in this concern.

Keeping in view of the above development, We have initiate an activity where lots of foreigners came to see our activities and participate in our meditation programmes. Indian Airlines, ITC, ITDCs are sending participants F,  pre also through our limited resources trying hard to undertake promotional Rural    

(g) Rural Tourism Promotion :

Every year many tourists visited India through our contacts.  From 1997 many tourists started to come and stayed at our campus from different countries.  In 2008 nearly 2000 people visited our campus especially from India, Myanmar, Combodia Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh, USA, Malaysia and Japan.   Services we offered are: Hospitality with food and accommodation, Meditation, Health Care, Local tour and culture share and familiarity with local Handicraft products and marketing (for income generation of local Handicraft artisans).  We also have linkage with Indian Airlines, ITC, Private Tourist Agency and ITDC.

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