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Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur, Howrah

Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda University
Belur, Howrah, West Bengal
Established : 2005 Type : Deemed University
Chancellor : Swami Suhitananda Vice Chancellor : Swami Atmapriyananda
Secretary : Swami Suhitananda Location : Belur, Howrah
Former Name : RKMVU Website :
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Category
 
»Arts
»Science
»Indian Spiritual Heritage
Contact Details
Address
  P.O. : Belur Math, Dist. : Howrah, Pin : 711 202.
West Bengal, India.
Phone & Fax
  033 2654 9999 (Phone)
033 2654 4640 (Fax)
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Course Details

Integrated M.Phil.-Ph.D. course in Bengali

(We invite applications from male candidates only)

Course structure:

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (formerly known as ‘Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute’) was declared by Government of India through its Ministry of Human Resource Development as an institution deemed-to-be-University under Section 3 of University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956. It was formally inaugurated on 4 July 2005, the day of mahasamadhi (passing away) of Swami Vivekananda who envisioned just a couple of days before he passed away that Belur Math would develop into an all-round University. Swami Vivekananda, along with Rabindranath Tagore, was a pioneer in that adept use of Bangali language at a time when English was the official language of the British India and the vernaculars were hardly promoted by the British Government. Swamiji’s love of Sanskrit is well known, but his wonderful command over Bengali language, his own mother tongue, and his masterly prose compositions are relatively less known. In fact, Rabindranath himself recommended to an earnest enquirer the serious study of Swamiji’s prose writing prachya o paschatya (The East and the West) to get a good grasp of the Bengali language. Our new University in Swamiji’s hallowed name has decided to set up a School of Humanities and Social Science under which M.Phil./ Ph.D. programmes are being started in Bengali Studies, Philosophical Studies and Economic Studies.

Often, the background of students who take a Masters degree in the above subjects, namely, Bengali, Philosophy or Economics is found inadequate to pursue research in these subjects. To orientate the students for research as well as to give them an exposure to the different research areas, the various research institutes across the country have introduced post-M.Sc. courses or pre-Ph.D. courses for hard core science subjects for their incoming research students. All the Universities in the advanced countries have pre-Ph.D. courses for their students. But then, the Indian Universities offering Ph.D. programmes hardly ever provide any scope for systematic training in advanced topics at the Post-P.G./ Pre-Ph.D. level. This usually leads to the students acquiring on his/her own just enough background with great difficulty, in the very narrow field of his contemplated research topic. As a result, most of these students do not always acquire enough confidence to be able to carry on independent research during their Ph.D. programme nor do they find themselves equipped to take up research in other developing fields at the post-doctoral level. The M. Phil. course started at our new University is intended to fulfil this important need of (i) providing research orientation to the students and (ii) giving them an opportunity for a fairly extensive as well as intensive study in the various research areas.

The M.Phil. course will be a four-semester course. The first three semesters will be fully devoted to course work, each semester carrying 16-18 credits (1 credit being 15-20 hours of course work). In the third semester, there will an elective subject to be chosen from out of several electives and the choice of the elective is likely to decide the area of research to be pursued later. While the planning for dissertation work, including the literature survey, would begin during the third semester, it is the fourth semester that would be devoted entirely to project/dissertation work. The project/dissertation work will be under the guidance of the teachers on an advanced topic in the subject concerned and is intended to give an orientation for Ph.D. research work.

Some selected students may be awarded fellowships for the M.Phil. / Ph.D. programmes. Students joining the Ph.D. programme after qualifying at the UGC NET examination for Junior Research Fellowship will be able to receive their fellowships through the University.

The School of Mathematical Sciences in general, and the Department of Mathematics in particular, aims at integrating teaching with research under the same umbrella. Teaching and research have unfortunately become distanced from each other in post-independent India. To form a bridge between the two is the principal objective of our efforts. This is to ensure two things:

  • Undergraduate students get exposed to research from the beginning of their career. Teachers often serve as role models for students. A motivated researcher-cum-teacher can serve this purpose best.
  • Research institutions need students who are motivated and aware of current research. There is a severe lack of such students in the fundamental sciences today in India. A programme that fills this gap will thus be fulfilling a national need in developing technically qualified scientific manpower.

We thus hope to address, in some measure, the following issues, that Indian science in general is facing at present:

  • A lack of a scientific middle class. What this means is that certain individuals through self-effort, do attain to a certain excellence. However, they form a small minority. Science education in its higher reaches is plagued by the lack of a system to bring larger numbers of students up to par with centres of excellence abroad. Thus, while India does have a potential for excellence in terms of bright youngsters, this does not translate into a manifestation of excellence due to lack of institutions that can tap this talent and bring it to fruition.
  • Quality of research, still remains below par, compared to developed countries. Here quality is to be evaluated roughly in terms of peer review, publications in reputed journals and citations. This, again, is not due to lack of talent. Indian researchers abroad seem to be doing rather well. However, the research atmosphere within the country, still needs to develop and meet international standards.

Given the national situation today, it is therefore imperative that students grow up with a hunger for knowledge per se, so that they may take up the responsibility of education for their own advancement and for the good of all. Such a goal can only be achieved if time-honoured and time-tested disciplines are actively encouraged to grow and flourish and finally train our students in developing the required skills.

We would also like to ensure that the faculty impart the knowledge they gain to students, so as to ensure the sustained growth of an academic and intellectual culture.

The Department of Physics under the School of Mathematical Sciences aims at integrating teaching with research under the same umbrella. To form a bridge between teaching and research is the principal objective of our efforts. This is to ensure two things:

  • Undergraduate students get exposed to research from the beginning of their career. Teachers often serve as role models for students. A motivated researcher-cum-teacher can serve this purpose best.
  • Universities and Research institutions need students who are motivated and aware of current research. There is a severe lack of such students in the fundamental sciences today in India. A programme that fills this gap will thus be fulfilling a national need in developing technically qualified scientific manpower.

We thus hope to address, in some measure, the following issues, that Indian science in general is facing at present:

  • A lack of a scientific middle class. What this means is that certain individuals through self-effort, do attain to a certain excellence. However, they form a small minority. Science education in its higher reaches is plagued by the lack of a system to bring larger numbers of students up to par with centres of excellence abroad. Thus, while India does have a potential for excellence in terms of bright youngsters, this does not translate into a manifestation of excellence due to lack of institutions that can tap this talent and bring it to fruition.
  • Quality of research, still remains below par, compared to developed countries. Here quality is to be evaluated roughly in terms of peer review, publications in reputed journals and citations. This, again, is not due to lack of talent. Indian researchers abroad seem to be doing rather well. However, the research atmosphere within the country, still needs to develop and meet international standards.

Given the national situation today, it is therefore imperative that students grow up with a hunger for knowledge per se, so that they may take up the responsibility of education for their own advancement and for the good of all. Such a goal can only be achieved if time-honoured and time-tested disciplines are actively encouraged to grow and flourish and finally train our students in developing the required skills.

We would also like to ensure that the faculty impart the knowledge they gain to students, so as to ensure the sustained growth of an academic and intellectual culture.

The Department of Sanskrit Studies:
Programmes

  • BA(Hons) in Sanskrit
  • PhD (3-4 years on an average) in Sanskrit and Sanskrit related studies

Sanskrit Courses

  • Basic Course in Sanskrit

Past Courses


Admission in Dept of Spiritual Heritage



Two-year Diploma Course on ‘Essentials of Indian Spiritual Heritage-Scriptures and Saints’.

Two-year Diploma Course on ‘Bhagavad-Gita-Traditional and Modern Interpretations (with emphasis on the universal message of the Gita and its application to solving modern life's problems)’.

Classes will be held twice a week on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Fees: Rs.4000 for the entire course.

Two-year Certificate Course on ‘Studies on Swami Vivekananda - Jnana Yoga’

Classes will be held once a week on Sunday mornings. A token fee of Rs.1000 will be charged for the entire course.

One-year Certificate Course on "Kathopanishad"

Classes will be held once a week on Tuesdays from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. A token fee of Rs.1000 will be charged for the entire course.

One-year Certificate Course on "Adhyatma Ramayana"

Classes will be held once a week on Tuesdays from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. A token fee of Rs.1000 will be charged for the entire course.

  • Two-year Diploma in Essentials of Indian Spiritual Heritage
    • Part I dealing with ‘Scriptures and Saints’
    • Part II with ‘Philosophy and Practice’ and
    • Part III with ‘Mythology and Rituals’.
  • Two-year PG Diploma in Srimad Bhagavad Gita with Modern and Traditional Interpretation
    • Two-year Certificate course in Studies on Swami Vivekananda - Jnana Yoga
    • Certificate Course on “Kathopanishad”
    • Certificate Course on “Adhyatma Ramayana”
College History
Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda University Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission as commanded by his Master, Sri Ramakrishna, for the secular and spiritual amelioration of humankind as a whole, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, nationality, gender or religion. The twofold aim of the Ramakrishna Mission is, in Swami Vivekananda's own Sanskrit slogan, atmano mokshartham jagaddhitaya cha ("For one's own spiritual emancipation and for the welfare of the world").

Swamiji's emphasis on character as the hallmark of an educated person is well known. He emphasized times without number that education is not the "amount of information that is put into your brain" but the "life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas." In 1939, the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission took a small step in this direction by starting an institution of higher education near Belur Math called Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira. The name 'Vidyamandira' is Swamiji's own christening of the educational institution he wanted near Belur Math. Then, in 1963, Swami Vivekananda's birth centenary year, the authorities of Ramakrishna Mission submitted a proposal to the Government for the starting of the Vivekananda University. For various reasons, however, the university did not materialize at that time. Efforts in this direction were made off and on in subsequent years until finally, a deemed university under University Grants Commission (UGC) was established under Ramakrishna Mission's auspices. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, declared the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI)—later renamed Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University—under the aegis of Ramakrishna Mission, as a deemed-to-be university under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956. This Institute was subsequently renamed as 'Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University' with the approval of UGC.
Facilities
  • Library
  • Webmail
  • Vivekdisha (An ICT-Based Network)
  • Yoga wellness Centre (SVDYWC)
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