KADAPA: The Ramakrishna Mission centre at Kadapa will be developed into a full-fledged centre and a temple, health centre, primary school, free hostel and an Institute of Human Resource Development will be constructed over a 10-acre site at Putlampalle near here, general secretary of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Belur, Swamy Smaranananda Maharaj, said on Thursday.

The Swamiji would lay the foundation stone for monks' quarters at Putlampalle on Friday.

Besides setting up schools, colleges and hospitals, Ramakrishna Math would spread the movement and take up rural development and service activities at Kadapa, he told newsmen

on Thursday. Twenty five new centres came up in the last decade.

There was a demand to set up 15 more centres this year and people offered funds and land, but the number of Swamijis to man them was inadequate, he stated.

Swamy Smaranananda stressed the need for teaching higher values among children.

A society with higher values, spirituality and free of corruption was essential for India to progress, although it has all the required resources and manpower, he said.

Materialistic values were no values at all and the defects in the society needed to be rectified, he said.

All schools of though lead to God, though called by different names and realisation of God was the ultimate goal of human life, he said.

Ramakrishna Math's Chennai President, Swamy Gouthamananda Maharaj, said character was important but its dearth led to tardy progress of the nation. He advocated Swamy Vivekananda's saying that one must live honourably for themselves and the country.

Training activities in theory and practice would be started at Kadapa and welfare activities taken up.

He lauded the Director of Vijaya Hospitals, P. Ramana Reddy, for extending enthusiastic support for the development of Kadapa centre.

Mr. Ramana Reddy said the demand for a centre for Rayalaseema mooted in 1996 fructified now.

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