India

India COVID-19 and Cyclone response

Multiple chapters of AMURT in Inda has been providing regular support to those affected by COVID-19 lockdowns and subsequent loss of livelihoods.
Treating it as a disaster with hygienic precaution and social distancing, volunteers in 15 states have served more than one million people. In the months of April through July 2020 hundred of thousands of hot meals were served regularly and households were given dry ration like rice, pulse, oil, potatoes, soybeans and other essential commodities. Read more

Cyclone Fani, Response, Odisha, India

Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) since Phailin in 2013. AMURT’s relief team jumped into action immediately after the storm made landfall on May 2nd, 2019. They started by clearing trees from the roads and went on to distributed food and non-food items. Read more

Letters from Ramananda, some relief work in India

Ramananda was AMURT secretary in India, and was earlier the personal assistant of P.R.Sarkar. He has now passed away and was cremated 20/6 – 2016. “The mortal remains of Ramananda ji has been put on funeral pyre and we are only left with the memories of a dynamic personality who took the word ” relief work ” as his life and transformed the lives of thousands suffering due to natural calamities.” Ac. Nirmohananda Avadhuta

Here follow letters from Acarya Ramananda Avadhut:

Namaskar!
AMURT Global distributed to day on 14th October 2016 Usha Shilling Fans to 80 poor families of 53 villages around Anandanagar on the occasion of Bengali New Year’s Day…
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Niila Kantha Divas was celebrated with one and half hours kiirtan at Pundag Railway Station by all didis, dadas and margii brothers and sisters on 12th February 2016… On this auspicious occasion We distributed 2000 packets of germinated Bengal gram.
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Wonderful  program of blankets distribution in Anandanagar by AMURT Global took place on 01-01-2016
 

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One truck loaded relief materials  including rice, pulses, cooking oil, sugar and milk for 250 flood affected families of J & K are being distributed by AMURT workers and volunteers in Jammu today (7/10)…
More over AMURTEL has also done very good service to people flood  hit areas of Udhampur, Rajauri, Anantanaga, Srinagar and Jammu.
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It is for your information that Shravanii Purnima was observe with great enthusiasm to day on 10th of August 2015 in AMURT Bhavan complex… On this auspicious occasion of Shavanii Purnima two hundreds poor tribal families of 52 villages around Anandanagar were benefitted. Were given mosquito nets and umbrellas… It is to be noted that 75 years ago first initiation (the first to learn meditation in Ananda Marga) was given by Baba to Kalicharan Benerjee who was known as Kalikananda Avadhuta.
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Mass feeding was held today on 08-06-2014 in our Mass Feeding centre near Pundag Railway Station . More than 200 poor people of six villages such as Shalgram, Darikuri, Pundag, chaukibera, Singhaghara and Hatinada took their meals. Even during scorching heat people came and enjoyed their meals

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A wonderful program was organized in AMURT Bhavan Complex on 14th and 15th May 2014 to celebrate the 93 birth anniversary of Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji. 52 village school teachers were given school uniforms, 150 saris and 150 dhotis were given to poor old men and men of 52 villages around Anandanagar to mark this auspicious occasion. It was really a memorable day for all. Three hours kiirtan was  held before starting the program in AMURT Bhavan complex where all the programs took  place. Some photos are being sent for your information.

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Mass feeding was held to day 11-05-2014 in Anandanagar.
Some photos are being sent for your information
With my best wishes and regards to all of you
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Medical Camp was held today on 04-05-2014 at Anandanagar in AMURT Bhavan complex in which 86 patients from long distance remote villages came to get treatment and medicines. All the patients were attended by six doctors including Dr. P.D. Singh and Dr. Karuna Sahadev from Ranchi. It was a very good service to poor patients by Baba’s Grace.
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Dear all
Namaskar!
I am to make an appeal to extend your help to AMURT Anandanagar for its construction work in its own complex and multifarious service activities in Anandanagar.
With my best wishes and regards to all.
Always In Baba
Dada Ramananda
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Narayan Seva was held today on 13-04-2014 More than 250 poor children, old men and women of Singhaghara, chaukibera,hathinada, Pundag. Dadikuri and Shalgram villages were fed with Khichuri, Papad and chokha. Some photos are being sent for your information. The volunteers who took part in distribution of hot meals to thepoor people in AMURT’s Mass Feeding Centre near Pundag Railway Station, are Bankim Mahato, Subhash Mahato, Panchanan Mahato,Brihaspati Kisku, Budhani Gorai, and Dada Pracetananda Avadhita.
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Today on 6th of April 2014, one medical camp was organized in AMURT Bhavan in which more than one hundred thirty patients were treated by our Doctors who came from Ranchi and other places. They are Dr, PD Singh, Dr. Karuna Sahadev, Dr. Ananda Kumar Sahadev, Dr. Misses Dr Ananda kumar Sahadev, Dr. Mihir Kumar and Ac. Dr. Pracetananda Avadhuta who actively took part in in treating  all the patients who came from different distance places. Free Medicine s were also given to all of them.
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Saris and dhotis distribution program on the auspicious occasion of Ananda Purnima DMS held at Anandanagar on 01-01-2014 was organized in AMURT Bhavan complex more than 600 saris 400 Dhotis and 400 towels were distributed amongst poor people of 52 villages around Anandanagar…
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India flood response

AMURT was first created to work with floods in India. It is well established locally and has long experience. The government is not taking proper responsibility after the recent floods in the Himalayas and AMURT needs support.

The natural disaster took thousand of lives, and loss of properties can not be estimated at this stage. More than 62,000 people are still stranded in different points of Kedarnath and Badrinath in Uttarakhanda and Himanchal Pradesh. Seeing the serious situation of the natural disaster in Uttarakhand, AMURT has already opened its Relief Camp in Hariwar and trying our level best to reach to the needy people…

“I therefore make an appeal to all concern and all AMURT Units in India and abroad to extend their all possible help and support for the suffering people who have been badly hit by the recent disaster in uttarakhand. With my best wishes. In HIS Service, Ac. Ramananda Avadhuta, Central AMURT Secretary”

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Exploitation and calamities in Uttarakhanda. By Tara, World prout assembly:

The calamaties in Uttarakhand are caused by outside exploiters. They have destroyed the trees along the rivers and on the hills and mountains and this is the main reason for such extreme flooding. All these decisions were made by outsiders. The local people have tried to protest the endless dams on the rivers, the endless destruction of the environment but have been silenced…

The fact is that all government and other jobs are controlled by Hindi outsiders. There is a vast difference between the local people and the other people of Uttar Pradesh in manners, culture and morals. Despite this the local language is not studied in any school. Instead people are forced to learn Hindi. During the independence movement of this state, there were strong cultural movements but this has not flowered due to control of the state by Hindi outsiders. At that time also there were ecological movements like the Chipko movement to stop the killing of forests. When the local language movement died these movements died because as Baba said, without a culture people have no backbone. There are even schools where students are taught Sanskrit but no school teaches the local language. Naturally the local people have an inferiority complex which renders them ripe for exploitation and for debasement of the youth by Bollywood culture. Also local children in schools learn slowly as they are not taught in their mother tongue and hence fall behind the children of Hindi outsiders from UP. This is why Proutists must fight for every mother tongue… (When local people talk to Hindu-speaking people they will feel inferior, as this is not their language and it is difficult for them to speak accurately and nicely-A).

Times Of India:
“Uttarakhand disaster plan doesn’t exist, CAG warned in April
“NEW DELHI: As a humongous natural calamity grips Uttarakhand, it is now emerging that the state has had no disaster management plan worth its name despite the region being highly disaster prone due to fragile mountains, tectonic activity and climatic events…”