Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home at Rahara was founded in 1944 as an orphanage with a nuclear family of 37 boys rendered orphan by the Great Famine Bengal in 1942-1943. Since then this organisation grew in dimensions and activities adhering to the principle of service to mankind in the spirit of worship.Today the Home is an educational complex with several schools colleges where nearly four thousand students are imparted education and training in different subjects and trades according to the aptitude of each individual.

This organisation has a non-formal Junior School, Junior Basic School, Junior High School, Higher Secondary School accompanied by a Degree College and a residential College of Education. It also has a primary Teachers’ Training Institute. There is an Industrial Training Centre and a Higher Secondary Vocational Training Institute. The different vocational training that are imparted are electrical works, carpentry, composing and printing, tailoring to name a few.

There are nine libraries for the different educational institutes functioning under this organisation. One of these have a District Library status. These libraries have books on a wide range of subjects as well as newspapers and periodicals. They are also equipped with a mobile-unit and an audio-visual unit.

There is a free homeopathic-allopathic dispensary attached with a 52 bed hospital for students. This unit has already treated more than 13,510 cases. Welfare work by way of distribution of clothes, blankets etc., is done every year. Educational aids are also provided. The organisation has also taken up village development activities.

Daily worship, aarti and bhajan sessions, discourses form an essential part of the daily schedule of the organisation. Special events are organised to celebrate the auspicious birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and also other religious luminaries. Durga Puja and Kali Puja are also held with great devotion.