Vaidyeshwara College - Jaffna - Swami Vivekananda Day on 27-10-2025

Personality Development
Special Programme for Students.

by Srimat Swami Apavargananda Maharaj
Editor, Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam,
Monthly Tamil Magazine,
Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India.

The Educational Activities of the Mission in Sri Lanka:

The Mission managed the following twenty-six schools in the Island before the Government of Sri Lanka took possession of all the 26 schools by an Ordinance in 1960.

01. J / Vaideeshwara Vidyalayam Mixed Senior Secondary English School.

02. J / Kokuvil Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

03. T / Trincomalee Hindu School.

04. T / Primary Tamil Boys’ School.

05. T / Tambalagamam Tamil Mixed School.

06. V / Thandikulam Tamil Mixed School.

07. Bd / Lunugalai Junior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

08. Bt / Akkaraipattu Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

09. Bt / Karaitivu Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School for Boys.

10. Bt / Karaitivu Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School for Girls.

11. Bt / Kalmunai Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

12. Bt / Mandur Senior Secondary Tamil Boys’ School.

13. Bt / Mandur Girls’ Tamil School.

14. Bt / Kaluthawalai Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

15. Bt / Palugamam Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

16. Bt / Kokkotichcholai Junior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

17. Bt / Araipattai Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

18. Bt / Eachanthivu Junior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

19. Bt / Kallady-Uppodai Senior Secondary Tamil Girls’ School.

20. Bt / Shivananda Vidyalayam Senior Secondary Boys’ English School.

21. Bt / Anaipanthi Residential Senior Secondary Girls’ English School.

22. Bt / Anaipanthi Junior Secondary Boys’ Tamil School.

23. Bt / Sittandy Senior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

24. Bt / Morokkottanchenai Junior Secondary Tamil Mixed School.

25. Bt / Karadithottam Tamil Mixed School.

26. Bt / Veeramunai Tamil Mixed School

Mr. S. Ambikaipakan was born on May 3, 1908 in Chunnakam, Sri Lanka. He had his early education at Jaffna Hindu College and received the Bachelor of Arts Degree from the prestigious Presidency College in Chennai, India. While living in Chennai, he was a regular visitor to Ramakrishna Mission, and became a lifelong follower of the teachings of Sri Ramakrishnar Paramahamsar, Swami Vivekanadar and Sarada Devi Ammayar.


This association also led to his appointment as a teacher first at Batticaloa Sivanantha Vidyalyam, and later as Principal of Jaffna Vaidyeshwara Vidyalayam by Swami Vipulanandar. This school initially had 150 students, and Mr. Ambikaipakan’s untiring effort led to the transformation to a Grade A school with 1500 students and fifty teachers, at the time when he retired in 1968 after 33 years of service.