Kollam, Sept. 27 -- Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on Sunday launched a series of humanitarian initiatives of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, including Rs 2 crore assistance for flood relief in Nepal, free surgery support for underprivileged patients and financial aid to fishermen's families, at a function held at Amritapuri here.
Addressing the Vishwa Seva Dinam celebrations organised to mark the 73rd birthday of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Radhakrishnan said the world needed "compassionate advancement" along with technological progress and stressed that the journey towards a Viksit Bharat must ensure that no one was left behind.
He said the real measure of Seva lay not merely in the number of people served or the scale of humanitarian progr...