About Us
The Ramakrishna Mission authorities at Belur Math were persuaded by the Government of India to open a school in Aalo, West Siang Dist., Arunachal Pradesh in 1965. The school was started in thatched huts with 35 students, on 27th July 1966. The foundation stone of the buildings to house the education complex had been laid by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 25th December 1967. It has now grown to have 1500+ students on its rolls, right from Kindergarten to Std 12. The school as of today is one of the largest in the state. Ours is the lone school in the district that provides quality education up to Higher Secondary level other than the government sector schools. The school’s roll stands around 1500, both boys and girls and 300 (both senior and junior hostels) only, tribal boys are provided with all kinds of educational and co-curricular facilities within the school premises. Right from the beginning the school has been an English-medium co-educational school, having a mixture of residential and non-residential students, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. The school conducts Lower Primary to Class XII in three streams – Science, Commerce and Humanities. The hostel provides lodging and boarding facility where students of Kindergarten to X std. are also provided value education, computer training and recreation facilities such as music, dance, drawings, paintings, craft, robotic training etc. and sports like football, basketball, table tennis, badminton, volleyball, athletics, band and drill, multi-gym, etc. 50 Digital Smart classes are run for children from Kindergarten to XII free of cost. Ultra-modern Laboratory in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Humanities, Geography, Computer, STEM, etc. are there for the benefit of children free of cost.
Exhaustive libraries with books and DVDs aggregating over 50000 and 25 periodicals for are available school and hostel students. Regular coaching in Band & Drill, Yoga, Sports like football, basketball, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton, etc. is provided to the interested students. NCC and NSS units are run for School and hostel students.
We have a Charitable Indoor Hospital and Mobile Dispensary units for serving poor and needy sections of society. Our hospital has Pathology, Eye, Dental, ENT units. Besides Indoor and Outdoor units we conduct regular medical camps for eye check-up, dental check-up, skin diseases, pediatrics, gynecology, etc. Operations are being performed in nearest Government hospitals because of non-availability of honorary surgeons in this remote part of Arunachal. Every year our Indoor and Out-door units serve more than 15000 patients. Our mobile medical unit regularly conduct medical check-up in the interior part of Arunachal at free of cost. Every year our mobile unit serves around 15000 patients. Health awareness programmes are carried out regularly throughout the year with the help of Audio-Visual unit on eye care, dental care, childcare, care of pregnant women and inculcating and encouraging anti-tobacco, non-smoking, anti-alcohol drive. Annually we have 45000 beneficiaries under this programme. We run free 25 non-formal schools for children of kindergarten to VI std. in the remote parts of Arunachal Pradesh. Annually we serve 1000 children under this programme. Poultry, Agriculture, Fishery and Bakery units are run for providing nutrition to children. Free mid-day meals are provided to all the day scholars of our school. For students from Kindergarten to V std are served biscuits, buns, bread, cakes, etc and Rice, lentils, vegetables etc. are served to students from VI to XII std. Carpentry, Tailoring, Printing Press, Electrical, Vehicle, Fabrication & General Maintenance units for giving in-house Service to the inmates. Regular fire, winter and distress reliefs are carried out throughout the year in the interior parts of Arunachal by distributing utensils, books, stationery, food grains, blankets, readymade garments to poor and needy. Around 7000 poor and needy persons are served annually under this programme. Despite inclement weather for about eight months, poor road connectivity, difficulty in getting daily provisions, and in hiring trained teachers even at a high salary, with collection of bare minimum fees from the students, meagre and irregular grants from the State/Central governments, the Mission is still flourishing as a centre of academic excellence for tribals in this remote part of our country.