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Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of an Academic cum Welfare Centre with a potential to be a University only for Women by RKSM-NIHAR

In 1898, Ma Sarada Devi inaugurated Sister Nivedita’s school for imparting education to Indian girls in national lines in the presence of Swami Vivekananda and his brother disciples at 16 Bosepara Lane, Baghbazar. Five years later, in 1903, when Sister and her school shifted in No.17 she wrote to her friend, “I would like much to make No. 17 a real University settlement….” (January 20, 1903). More than a hundred years later, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission is pushing Sister’s  dream forward by embarking upon a mission to create an independent university only for women. The adjacent property at No. 19 has already been purchased and Rail Vika Nigam Limited (RVNL) has extended financial support under CSR grant towards construction of this academic cum welfare centre.

On Saturday, March 4, 2023 Pravrajika Amalaprana, General Secretary, Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission laid the foundation stone of this building. She said that by sowing the seed of education and social welfare in Baghbazar area where Sister Nivedita resided, RKSM is feeling very happy. The program started with Chandipath in the morning followed by Puja and Homa. Dr. Shashi Panja, Cabinet Minister for Industries, Commerce & Enterprises and Department of Women & Child Development & Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal graced the occasion by her presence.  From RVNL Shri Sankar Pal, Senior DGM-HR was also present along with a number of dignitaries, nuns, devotees and well-wishers. The program ended with devotional songs and Prasad distribution.


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“The selfless man is the thunderbolt.”

– Sister Nivedita

“Let us strive only for selflessness, and we become the weapon in the hands of the gods.”

– Sister Nivedita

“In nation-making, there is but one ideal, carried out by different methods, and the interest is the common interest of self-sacrifice.”

– Sister Nivedita

“I believe that India is one, indissoluble, indivisible.”

– Sister Nivedita

“National unity is built on the common home, the common interest, and the common love.”

– Sister Nivedita

“Technical education, without higher research, is a branch without a tree, a blossom without any root.”

– Sister Nivedita

“By our own vision of the ideal, and by our own struggle to reach its height do we really rise; by no other means whatsoever.”
– Sister Nivedita

“It is not by teaching a Bengali girl French, or the piano, but by enabling her to think about India, that we really educate her.”
– Sister Nivedita

“We must surround our children with the thought of their nation and their country. The centre of gravity must lie, for them, outside the family.”
– Sister Nivedita

“The highest art is always charged with spiritual intensity, with intellectual and emotional revelation.”
– Sister Nivedita

“All that matters is our own struggle. By that do we rise.”
– Sister Nivedita

“Struggle is worship. What else does the Gita teach its people?”
– Sister Nivedita

“A man may be a fool in technical and academic knowledge and yet a sage in which he feels and desires.”
– Sister Nivedita

“Real life begins when we die to the world of the senses.”
– Sister Nivedita

“If we learn nothing else, let us learn to give, let us learn to serve, let us learn to renounce.”
– Sister Nivedita