bangalore the mata amritanandamayi math is all set to extend its charitable services to karnataka in a bigger way coming up in bangalore in the next six months are an engineering college a school and a templethe math headquartered at amritapuri kollam district kerala has been doing substantial work in educational social and medical fields countywide besides cultural and spiritual activities it runs orphanages homes for the poor school for the hearing impaired etcthe amrita institute of technology and science located at kasavanahalli near sarjapur on a scenic 20acre campus will be the third such institute and the first in karnataka it is affiliated to the visvesvaraya technology university and will be inaugurated on september 18the hitech college offers courses in information science and engineering computer science and engineering and electronics and communication engineering eight other courses are expected to be added latersays principal jk purushotham we will put course material on intranet which students can access any time trainers too will be trained to ensure they are updated with the latest in technology and are on a par with the best in the world to ensure students personality development they will be exposed to yoga trekking nature camps spiritual training sports and gamesschool building and temple constructions are gathering pace on the threeacre ashram premises near bangalore university at jnanabharati awaiting inauguration of the school building in january next year classes are now held in a temporary building this is the sixth school in the state and the first in bangaloresays brahmachari narayana chaitanya who is in charge of math activities in karnataka the math offers scholarships to poor and meritorious students one of our objectives is to stem the dropouts especially of girls students will be exposed to yoga music painting craft etcamma will consecrate the 16th brahmasthanam temple at the ashram in february next year this will be the second in karnataka the first being in mysore says the swami an important feature of the congregational pujas held here is that the devotee is enjoined to perform the worship himself rather than having a priest perform the puja for him such unique congregational pujas are besides the daily pujas conducted by the temple priests according to the injunctions of the sastras