17/09/2025
NOTICE : ALLIED OPTHALMIC PERSONNEL TRAINING
NETAJI EYE HOSPITAL has been extending mostly free treatments to thousands of indigent patients. S/5078 of 1961. It is located in remote village, 60 Km.
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Ramchandrapur, Purulia
Santuri
742142
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| Monday | 9am - 1pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 1pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 1pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 1pm |
| Friday | 9am - 1pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 1pm |
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“Annada, can’t you do anything for these unfortunate people?” – implored Netaji to Annada Prasad Chakrabortty (the pre-Sannyas name of Swami Asimananda Saraswati), tears rolling down his cheeks, as he picked up and embraced a poor old blind person who, in deep darkness of the night, had fallen down on the street in front of their car. The year was 1938. Amidst the ongoing freedom struggle against the imposing British Rule, Netaji accompanied by Annada Prasad was moving towards Adra Railways station to get into a Train for Calcutta after attending a number of political meetings in the then Manbhum District (Purulia) of West Bengal. And that was the sowing of seed in the compassionate heart of Annada Prasad (Swami Asimananda Saraswati in subsequent life), which germinated in 1953 with the organising of a winter Cataract Eye Operation Camp for 15 days with the help of the then Bihar Govt. and Patna Medical College when Swamiji was a seating M.L.A. of Bihar Assembly. Subsequently, he observed that the patients treated & operated in the camps were not getting proper after-care medical treatment for which most of the cases had been getting bad to worse. He lamented to his followers & workers “I have no right to take away the vision of the poor people on the pretext of restoring their eye sights”. So he decided to establish a small 10-bedded regular hospital at Ramchandrapur Ashram, Purulia only for 3 months from January to March in the year 1954 and christened it as “Netaji Eye Hospital” in revered memory of the great revolutionary. He organised weekly camps for treatment of eye and other medical cases. From 1964 this 10 bedded Eye Hospital was transformed into a 100-bedded seasonal Eye Hospital for 3 months only during winter season i.e. from January to March. After the demise of Swamiji in 1968, it became a full-fledged Eye hospital in the year 1970-71 running throughout the year under the aegis of Sri Sri Bijoykrishna Ashram Relief Society, Regd. Under the Societies Act.
Our Society – SRI SRI BIJOYKRISHNA ASHRAM RELIEF SOCIETY – was established by Swami Asimananda Saraswati as back as in the year 1941 and was registered Under Societies Act XXI of 1860, No. S/5078 of 1961. The Society, a Charitable Institution, has been extending humanitarian services to rural poor people through different Service Wings at its main Centre at Ramchandrapur, Dist. Purulia, West Bengal and also through other Service Centers and Branches in West Bengal and Orissa. Our main Social Service wing 100 bedded – NETAJI EYE HOSPITAL has been extending mostly free treatments to thousands of indigent patients of rural areas for the last 61 years (established in 1953). It is located in remote village, 60 Km. away from the district town of Purulia and only 19 Km. off from Asansol, West Bengal.
