Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Sargachi is located in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

[1] Swami Akhandananda or Gangadhar Maharaj, as he was popularly called, was an avid traveler and philanthropist.

He went to Gujarat, Rajputana and various other parts of North India as itinerant monk and returned to the Alambazar Math, the then headquarters of Ramakrishna Order, in 1895.

[2] he then traveled to Baharampur in the district of Murshidabad, a very poor and backward area where he encountered a major famine and saw people suffering from want of basic necessities like food.

Since its inception, the organization under Swami Akhandananda, who stayed there permanently even after becoming the president of Belur Math, developed schools, started industrial training programs, medical camps and hospital services for poor and other philanthropic programs beneficial for the society.