School going children in villages, particularly of very poor labourer families often are victims of parental indifference and neglect. They suffer not just in academic, but, also in their character and intellectual development. Children from families where the father is addicted to alcohol are worst affected. They are provided very little care in their developing years and later become easy prey for anti-social and exploitative elements of society.

Vidyarthi Rakshak Yojna (scheme for the protection of the student) is an innovative scheme through which such children are supported by the Ashram. They are provided with intensive coaching in their studies after school hours, a nutritious and wholesome supper and inputs for their physical, mental and intellectual growth including training in yoga.

"Healthy Body, Healthy Mind"

In the year 2001 - 2002, the Yojna was operational in 2 centres with a total beneficiaries of 46.

Sri Ramakrishna Mobile Library
With the rapid infiltration of television in the villages, and its dominance of all spare time, any traditional values reaching the youth is getting remote. It is said that most youth spend about 6 - 8 hours during the week days and 10 - 12 hours during the weekend just watching television. The reading habit and its self-exploratory learning process gets stunted early in life. All the benefits that could be derived from reading good books are deprived to rural children.

Sri Ramakrishna Mobile Library is an effort of Seva Pratishtan to cultivate the habit of reading and learning amongst the rural youth. Quiz Programmes from these books encourage the young minds to cultivate the habit of reading.

As part of its educational service efforts, the Seva Pratishtan also conducts holiday camps for students and camps for teachers. In the year 2001-2002, two holiday camps were conducted and attended by 103 students.