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SANTOSH CHANDRA BHATTACHARYA
MEMORIAL TRUST
NEWSLETTER
JUNE 2017 WELCOME
Welcome to our very first issue of Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust newsletter. The
Trust was established a little over one year ago when some of us, the ex-students of Ramakrishna
Mission Boys’ Home High School, Rahara, came together to form this organization in the memory of
our beloved Sir to pay homage to this great soul. The work of the Trust is overseen by trustee
members with help of the working committee who meet on a regular basis. You will get to know more
about different projects of the Trust family in the next few pages. We will publish a newsletter each
quarter to keep you up to date with the various initiatives of the Trust.
THE BEGINNING
Help the distressed. Educate the poor children. Reach out to the have-nots.
That’s the credo of Ramakrishna Mission. That’s the teaching of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and
Swami Vivekananda. That’s the lesson we’ve learned from our teachers as students of Rahara
Ramakrishna Mission, a great institution built by Swami Punayanandaji Maharaj. That’s the
philosophy Santoshbabu exemplified with his life. That’s our proud inheritance. That’s the tradition
we intended to carry forward.
The “Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust” is registered under The Indian Trusts Act in
2016. We knew that noble words are not enough, we are undertaking a difficult journey. Once Swami
Punayanandaji Maharaj said to Lady Wavell that his life will be fulfilled when the orphan children will
no more think themselves as orphans. That’s our inspiration too. That’s why we are always confident
that “Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust” will be able to help poor children to educate
themselves and to become responsible citizens of this country and society. That will be our true
homage to our beloved Sir.
JOURNEY SO FAR
MAY 2016
The first initiative of the “Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial
Trust” was to arrange for apparatuses for the school laboratory, and
providing books to students of class XII.
We also committed to support fourteen students for their education,
food and boarding expenses for next two years till they pass the
Higher Secondary examination.
SEPTEMBER 2016
On the School Foundation day, Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya
Memorial Trust joined hands with RKM Boys’ Home Rahara in
arranging special lunch for all the residential students of RKM Boys’
Home, Rahara.
At the beginning of festive season, SCBMT took an initiative to
expand its arms towards children of below 12 years of age. A school
is being run at Arpatan, Khardah by Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa (GAP), Ramakrishna Mission.
SCBMT distributed new dresses to two hundred and fifty students of this school. Swami Jayanandaji
Maharaj, Secretary Rahara Ramakrishna Mission and Chandi Maharaj, who is the mentor of this
initiative, graced the occasion with their presence.
NOVEMBER 2016
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust has launched T-Shirt for fund
raising from donors. Money collected from the donations is being utilized for food
and education of the children. The T-shirt has already become very popular among
donors and is very much in demand. It is available in different sizes, a perfect item
for personal wear and gift.
FEBRUARY 2017
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust distributed refreshments
among residential students at Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home
to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. The same
was shared with the little students of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa
(GAP) through RKM Boys’ Home Rahara.
MARCH 2017
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust provided partial financial support for the operation
of Ankylosing Spondylitis to Mr. Prasanta Ghosh, a national level body builder. Prasanta is suffering
from this disease for last ten years and is bed-ridden for the past six years. Currently there is no
movement in his hip and knees and both needs complete replacement surgery. The approximate
cost for the surgery is 12 lacs.
The Trust has also given Geometry Boxes to thirty seven residential (ashram) students of our school,
Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home (H.S.) Rahara before their Class X Board Examinations. The trust
has planned to give Geometry Boxes to all residential (ashram) students of class IX and X from 2017.
APRIL 2017
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust helped to provide local area network (LAN)
connections including close circuit cameras to four laboratories (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and
Geography) of Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home. These 2 MP cameras having good night vision
capabilities are also connected with this LAN and are accessible via internet.
SHRI SANTOSH CHANDRA BHATTACHARYA
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya was born on 15 August, 1932 in Sylhet. His childhood was an intense
struggle to complete the studies. Without a
place to stay, without parents, he passed
Matriculation examination from
Shayestaganj High School. Afterwards, he
passed ISc from Silchar, BSc from Agartala
and lastly, completed Master’s Degree in
Applied Mathematics from University of
Calcutta. He joined Rahara Ramakrishna
Mission in 1958, as a teacher. Thus began an
epic journey of thirty-four years. As a
mathematics teacher, his fame rose to
legendary heights. But he taught something
more valuable to his students - how to think
rationally. Santoshbabu, as he was known to
generations of students, retired in 1992. But
he continued to be involved in various
educational and social activities, shunning
any glare of publicity. One of the most gifted
teachers of his generation, and more importantly a great human being, Santosh Chandra
Bhattacharya died on 7 May, 2014.
BLESSINGS
The secretary of Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home, Swami Jayanandaji Maharaj is the mentor
to this trust. In an inspiring speech while
inaugurating http://scbmemorial.org the
website of the trust at Sri Ramakrishna
Temple in the school premises, he says "We
have many beautiful flowers in our garden,
and students are the best among them."
He encourages the trust to carry out this
work to everywhere irrespective of any
discrimination. "Share the umbrella, where
it is raining." He refers trust as Arjun of
Mahabharata. Arjun takes the pride to
describe himself as "Disciple of
Dronacharya" more than any other identity. Jayanandaji praises the idea to dedicate the Trust in the
name of our beloved teacher Shri Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
JULY 2017
Starting the Financial support for Books, Education, food and boarding expenses of 2017 Class X
pass out students for next two years.
AUGUST 2017
Giving Geometry Boxes to all residential (ashram) students of class IX and X of Ramakrishna Mission
Boys’ Home (H.S.) Rahara.
SEPTEMBER 2017
Like 2016 SCBMT will distribute new dresses this year also to two hundred and fifty students of the
school at Arpatan, Khardah run by Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa (GAP), Ramakrishna Mission.
MEMBERS
1. Amal Mukherjee 2. Nabendu Guha
3. Amitava Bhattacharyya 4. Partha Sengupta
5. Amitava Dey 6. Pinaki Tiwari
7. Amitava Sengupta 8. Pradip Roy Chowdhury
9. Angshuman Das 10. Prantik Guha Ray
11. Anirban Chatterjee 12. Projjwal Guha
13. Anup Das 14. Rakhi Sarkar
15. Apurba Kumar Manna 16. Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya
17. Arindam Dutta Chowdhury 18. Sabyasachi Chatterjee
19. Arnab Bhowmik 20. Samir Bhattacharyya
21. Arnab Bose 22. Sandeep Mukherjee
23. Arun Misra 24. Santanu Dutta
25. Bhaskar Chakraborty 26. Somnath Guha
27. Debanjan Goswami 28. Sourav Ghosh
29. Debasish Bhattacharyya 30. Sourav Kumar Howlader
31. Debasish Chatterjee 32. Subhasish Chakraborty
33. Debasish Datta 34. Subrata Bal
35. Debasish Ray 36. Subrata Misra
37. Debranjan Das Mahapatra 38. Sudipta Bhaskar Dutta
39. Dhiman Bhattacharya 40. Sudipta Saha
41. Dibyendu Dutta 42. Suman Ganguly
43. Dipankar Dutta 44. Suman Kumar Gangopadhyay
45. Goutam Kumar Bhowmik 46. Suman Mukherjee
47. Indranil Chakraborty 48. Suman Sengupta
49. Indranil Pal 50. Suman Kumar Roy
51. Janak Narayan Neogi 52. Supriya Mitra
53. Kaushik Nag Majumder 54. Supriya Sarkar
55. Kausik Datta 56. Tapan Misra
57. Md Kamar Hossain 58. Tirtha Pratim Banerjee
59. Mohon Mukhopadhyay 60. Tirtha Sadhu
61. Mriganka Ghosh 62. Trina Ray
63. Meghnad Poddar
DONORS
1. Rahara Ramakrishna Mission 78
Batchmates & Associates Welfare
Society
2. Nandini Ghosh
3. Abhijeet Mukherjee 4. Nepal Chandra Ghosh
5. Abhijit Das 6. Nishit Kumar Pal
7. Abhishek Basumallick 8. Pritam Majumder
9. Amit Choudhury 10. Priyabrata Chaterjee
11. Anik Sengupta 12. Pradyot Kumar Pahari
13. Anil Kumar Das 14. Ranjan Basak
15. Anirban Chakraborty 16. Minati Chatterjee
17. Arindam Dhar 18. Samarjit Jana
19. Ashok Mukherjee 20. Sanjoy Das
21. Bhanu Banik 22. Saradindu Paul
23. Biswajit Goswami 24. Sharmistha Chakraborty
25. Brick Box Constructions Pvt. Ltd. 26. Sirshendu Nath
27. Chinmoy Chakraborty 28. Soumya S Basu
29. Chitrakalpa Sen 30. Sounak Das
31. Mrittika Sengupta 32. Sovik Chakraborti
33. Debashish Karmakar 34. Subhadeep Chatterjee
35. Debshankar Pramanik 36. Subhajit Dasgupta
37. Dr. Debasish Chatterjee 38. Subrata Chakraborty
39. Goutam Bhattacharyya 40. Sujoy Bagchi
41. Gautam Halder 42. Suman Ghosh
43. Indrajit Chowdhury 44. Suparno Som
45. Indranil Biswas 46. Supriya Deb
47. Koushik Lahiri 48. Tanmoy Biswas
49. Mousumi Basu
“Whatever you think, that you will
be. If you think yourselves weak,
weak you will be; if you think
yourselves strong, strong you will
be.”
-Swami Vivekananda
Contact us
Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial
Trust
1 F Block – A Usha Plaza
69 B. T. Road, Kolkata – 700 117
West Bengal, India
Phone: +91-81006 02538
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.scbmemorial.org
https://www.facebook.com/scbmemorial
Bank Account Details
Account Name Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Trust
Account No 0184104000156752
Account Type Savings
Name of the Bank IDBI Bank Ltd, Saltlake Branch
IFSC Code IBKL0000184