Five year College Education for very poor Children project
The Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya started this programme in 2008 for which Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan has donated all his savings as well as the savings of his late wife Prof. R. Rajalakshmi, who was closely associated with our Ramakrishna Mission from her childhood.
This project has attracted many donors (the list is given in separate section).
Dr. Anant Moorthy and his wife Dr. Susheela who retired as scientists of famous Brookhaven National Lab, USA and living in USA have donated $1,00,000 so that annual interest can be used for the project. As requested by them their donation will be called "Drs. Anant Moorthy and Susheela fund" for this project.They also gave $10,000 for two years to help students to go for summer training every year.
Dr. Anant Moorthy and Dr. Susheela Moorthy
Sri Kishor R Joshi, retired lab technician, Government Lab, USA donated $80,000 on behalf of his brother Sri Vishnuprasad Ravishankar Joshi for this project to educate poor children.
Joshi's Family
Donations for this programme are tax-exempt both in India (under section 80G) and USA (under section 501<c><3> of the IRS code).
One-time donation of 5 lakh rupees or 8000 dollars will help to select one child at a time, i.e., when one child finishes the programme, another child can be selected. Along with the donation, donors are requested to send a note that the donation is for Coimbatore Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya for their Five Year College Education Project for Poor Children.
People can send their donations by cheque or draft to
Only the annual interest of the fund will be used for running the project.
- Children will be selected on secular basis. Girls will be given preference.
- The criteria for selection are the family income should not exceed Rs 6000 per month and this child should be the first child going to the college.
- Children selected can study in any field in the college for 5 Years and their fees boarding and lodging ,clothes will be taken care of for 5 years.
- Summer training in the field in which they are studying will be arranged every summer vacation.
- The students should give a bond that they will pay back the amount spent on them in installments if they do not go for a job.
- A committee consisting of Prof Sivaramakrishnan, Sri Gopalakrishnan and Sri V.Vijaykanth will be in touch with the past and present students and find out how they are progressing in life.
Following 95 students(29 Boys and 66 Girls) have completed the college studies under this scholarship
Donations for this project are received from the following donors
