India's Muslim Pres. Donates Salary to Ramakrsna Mission

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President donates salary to Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission

Press Trust of India

Kolkata, February 13

 

President APJ Abdul Kalam has donated his two months' salary as a

token of his appreciation of the service by Ramakrishna Vivekananda

Mission which he visited last month.

Mission sources said on Thursday that a cheque drawn on the State

Bank of India's Central Secretariat branch, was sent recently to the

organisation's Barrackpore headquarters in North 24-Parganas district.

 

In an accompanying letter to the Mission's founder and general

secretary Swami Nityananda, the President recalled his visit to

Barrackpore on January 21 and said, "I am deeply impressed about the

service being rendered by Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission and it was

a great experience for me."

 

During his 45-minute visit to the mission, Kalam had interacted with

the children and looked around the ashram.

 

Breaking away from his parent organisation Ramakrishna Mission to

work independently, Swami Nityananda founded the Ramakrishna

Vivekananda Mission in 1976 together with some other Ramakrishnite

monks.

 

The Mission now has 15 centres in West Bengal, besides branches at

Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the United Kingdom