| The Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India, accorded permission to
the Ramakrishna Mission to start a deemed university named the Ramakrishna
Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute by a Gazette
Notification dated 5 January 2005. Later, the University was renamed
as ‘Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University’. The formal
inauguration took place on 4 July 2005, Swami Vivekananda’s
Mahasamadhi day.
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| The first convocation of the university
was held on 2 September 2006 at its first off-campus Faculty centre
of Disability Management and Special Education at Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu. |
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| Swami Vivekananda envisioned
that Belur Math would be a centre of great harmony and synthesis,
not only of all religious beliefs and traditions, but also
of arts and sciences and the various branches of knowledge, both
secular and spiritual. It would be the centre of great spiritual
and cultural awakening. |
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| Aims and Objectives – The
Vision: The present university is intended to actualize
Swami Vivekananda’s fundamental educational ideas of imparting
life-building, man-making and character building education
by combining the best elements of the East and the West. The aim
of the institute is to provide opportunities for education and
research in the disciplines of arts, sciences and spiritual studies.
Value education will therefore be an essential component in all
the courses. |
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| Administrative
Aspects: The University is an international university that
could operate through and from any of the branch-centres of Ramakrishna
Mission in India and abroad. It is a cluster of institutions,
all of them belonging to branches of Ramakrishna Mission, with
headquarters at Belur Math, District
Howarh, West Bengal. |
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