
- Mr. Shravan Kumar, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, visited the Vaishnava Enncyclopaedia Project on 9.11.2019
- On the same day, Purusottama Keshav Prabhu from ISKCON Kolkata temple also visited the project.

The Vaishnava Encyclopaedia Proect has been started on 11th January, 2019 under the guidance of Dr. Abhishek Bose (Honorary Editor), Dr. Ferdinando Sardella (Honorary Editor), Dr. Sumanta Rudra (Assistant Editor), Anurag Pareekh (Dean of Administration) and with regular assistance from the library of Bhaktivedanta Research Centre. The project aims to create a Vaishnava Encyclopaedia by translating, editing and annotating the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana written by Haridasa Dasa.
A Caitanya Tree has been made which is the first ever visual representation of Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya that has spread through the guru-sishya lineage and a dissertation paper has also been written on this Caitanya Tree
On 01.04.2019 a new project fellow, Aishwarya Bhattacharya was recruited to this project. She conducted a research on the origin and historical background of the encyclopaedia as a genre. Aishwarya has looked up various reference books on her research topic, has visited Bangiya Sahitya Parishat library and wrote a dissertation paper on her research work.
The first brochure of the Project was designed and printed by the employees on 26.04.2019.
Two overviews of the books Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana and Vaishnava Manjusha Samahriti have been written by Pijus Kanti Dua.
He has counted the number of total entries of the entire book and found there are total 30,736 entries in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Abhidhana.
This year marked the first field trip of this project. Starting on 16.03.2019 and funded by the Bhaktivedanta Research Center, the project employees under the supervision of Dr. Abhishek Bose went to Remuna in Balasore, Odisha, for a three-day research trip. Remuna is a place of utmost importance in Vaishnava culture and philosophy. The field trip included multiple visits to the temple of Khirachora Gopinath, the Samadhi of Madhavendra Puri, Saptasara Lake, the temple of Gargeshwar, Ramachandi and the birth place of Sridhar Swami. The fellows also attended the disappearence day festival of Madhavendra Puri and two lectures given by Dr. Bose at the Balasore temple and ISKCON Remuna. The trip ended on 18.03.2019.