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.

GALLERY

IN NEWS

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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: sbhattachariamemorial@gmail.com

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