The Bharat Sevashram Sangha, a pioneer registered charitable organization estd, In 1917, was founded by the great illustrious patriot saint Acharya Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj. Nearly 500 Monks and Brahamacharis are running hundreds of charitable dispensaries, Hospitals, Mobile Medical Units, Ambulances, Patient homes, Cancer & Leprosy Hospitals, Tribal Welfare centers, Free residential education for nearly 5000 students ( in collaboration with Govt. of India) in Jharkhand, Nagaland, Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal etc. Schools & Technical institutes, Women empowerment centers, Youth welfare centers etc. besides Relief work during hours of natural calamities of flood, famine, earthquake in any part of country.

Great Founder: It was in 1896. India saw the emergence of an exceptional yogi a great spiritual preceptor and social reformer and a patriotic saint. He arrived on this earth to preach and propagate the lofty Ideals of ancient Indian Culture and morality.

He attained the highest goal of His life at an early age of 20 by dint of his strenuous austerities and rigorous spiritual practices. He maintained a strict disciplined life from his very boyhood. With complete celibacy, strong moral character and a firm determination for noble and philanthropic work. His soul was so pure, his heart was so kind, his approaches so polite, his ideals were so broad based, his most progressive ideas in socio- religions and humanitarian services attracted thousands of youths, social workers around him.

The Sangha was established by the Prophet of the Age, Swami Pranavananda in 1917 to fulfil his mission. He was a great Yogi, an Acharya, a philosopher-thinker, a reformer and one of the very few men of the world who can renounce, and he did, everything, for mankind’s sake. He was born in a village, Bajitpur in Madaripur district in Bengal in the year 1896. From his childhood his behaviour was different than that of other boys of his age. He was a born leader, strong and healthy and keen to help anyone in distress. He was the last person to tolerate any injustice done by anyone in society. He would not accept anything without verifying and testing the truth in it.

This organization is headquartered in Kolkata and has about fifty branches and associates throughout India and around the world. It is running a big Hospital (150 bed) including 28 bed ICU/HDU, at Joka, Kolkata, with all diagnostic facilities of M.R.I., C.T. Scan, Digital X-ray, U.S.G., Eco-cardio, Endoscopy, Advanced, Automated Pathological Lab, Micro Surgery, Nephrology & Dialysis etc. Apart from this Cancer Hospital (Rourkela), large number of polyclinic & Hospitals at different centers is also function.

In recognition of its services to the nation, the Govt. of India has exempted the Sangha U/S-10(23)(c) of the IT. Act, F.C.R.A. Registration and its donors US 80G of IT Act. and United Nations has accredited the Sangha with ECOSOC Status,since-2008.