About Raipur Branch
The main SAS with its headquarter at Pondicherry was registered as a Society vide no. S/4211 of 1960-61, on 24th of September 1960 by the Registrar of Societies, Firms, Non-trading companies, West Bengal. The current Management Committee of SAS is headed by Shri Pradeep Narang.
The Raipur Branch of SAS was constituted in 2012. Its Management Committee is as follows: – (A)
This society has been granted approval under section 80G(5)(vi) vide the office order of the Director of Income Tax (Exemption) Kolkata vide their order no.DIT(E)/2594/8E/7/61-62 and through their similar order no.S/05-07, Dated 12/07/2011 has been extended in perpetuity unless specifically withdrawn. Its PAN No. AACTS1964M.
It is also registered under section 12(A) of the Income Tax Act, it has been registered under Niti Ayog’s NGO Darpan Portal vide No. PY/2017/0151829, and under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ Registrar of Companies and granted registration for CSR activities and its registration no. is CSR00000200.
The Raipur Branch’s Management Committee consisting of 13 members, has been constituted under the Chairpersonship of Dr. Indira Misra on 15.06.2021, under the name and signature of Shri Pradeep Narang, Chairman (SAS).
The objective of the society is to spread the ideas of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, as far and wide, as possible.
To achieve the above objective has taken a resolve, to bring out a monthly Hindi magazine (Navankur), which is now running in its 9th year.
In addition the want to help the local semi-urban youths to become employable.
Our Branch has the ownership of 1 Acre of land in village Kachna, District and Tehsil Raipur. It has built on it 2100 Sqft into a Hall, which we call Sri Aurobindo complex, (SAC) (and Personality Development Centre) and some additional facilities. 20 computers and a teacher Smt Babita Markande is undertaking the teaching of computer operations to 41 youths, for the last one month, in a course of total 6 months.
We celebrated the 149th Birthday of Sri Aurobindo (Darshan Diwas) with these students. Photographs taken on this occasion may be seen.
The road at adjacent SAC, measuring 14 Km has been named by the Raipur Municipal Corporation as Maharshi Aurobindo Marg. The SAC is proposed to be a two storied structure, out of which only about ¼ has been constructed. The room adjacent to the Hall houses a small library for use of students. This Hall and complex have been inaugurated on the 21.02.2021 and the Chief Guest on the occasion was the sitting MLA Shri Satyanarayan Sharma. Also present were Shri S.K. Misra (Former Chief Secretary, Govt of CG), DG Police Shri D.M. Avasthi, and Shri Dinesh Shrivastava, (Sr. IAS-retired), and our Branch Board Members many high ranking dignitaries.
From 19.07.2021 computer classes have been stared in the SAC. There is very enthusiastic response from the students. In due course, weekly Medical checkup facility will be provided to the nearby village people.
The SAC is surrounded by 13 villages where there is a lot of need for improving the standard of education for school children. We would like to invite the Headquarters to provide guidance/help to improve the teaching standards of the connected villages, out of which 2 to 3 have Higher Secondary School. We may add that the school children have been found very keen students, so they deserve all help.
Our programme to celebrate 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo :- We have a State Committee for Chhattisgarh State consisting of the Branches/Centres personnel from Raipur, Bhilai, Durg and Bilaspur. We will make an effort to establish study Centres/Centres and Branches at least three more places namely Ambikapur, Korbaand Kondagaon. A set of useful books to start the process has been sent to these new places and a visit by our Management Committee members will be undertaken there. An effort will be made to have a symposium of all the representatives on 15.08.2022. Our coordinating authority Shri Amod Kumar has been apprised of this programme and he has welcomed the our proposal.
Our programme to celebrate 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo
We have a State Committee for Chhattisgarh State consisting of the Branches/Centres personnel from Raipur, Bhilai, Durg and Bilaspur. We will make an effort to establish study Centres/Centres and Branches at least three more places namely Ambikapur, Korbaand Kondagaon. A set of useful books to start the process has been sent to these new places and a visit by our Management Committee members will be undertaken there. An effort will be made to have a symposium of all the representatives on 15.08.2022. Our coordinating authority Shri Amod Kumar has been apprised of this programme and he has welcomed the our proposal
Our Areas of Interest
The objective of the Sri Aurobindo Society is to spread the ideas of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo far and wide