NARENDRAPUR, India, Dec. 23—The young Hindu who looks after 3,000 refugees from East Pakistan at the Ramakrishna Mission camp here is a sad man today.

“I have no right to feel that way,” he said, “but I have lived with these unfortunate people so long that I cannot but feel unhappy when I see the time has come to part with them.”

Brahmachari Vasudev (whose title means bachelor in Sanskrit) is a 22‐year‐old apprentice sadhu, or holy man, attached to the Ramakrishna Mission, a Hindu social service society similar to the Christian missions. The mission operates several refugee camps for the families who fled the military repression in East Pakistan.

‘One Happy Family’

The camp here was one of the earliest set up for the refugees who began pouring into India last April, but it was not until July that Brahmachari Vasudev was sent from his mission headquarters in Mysore in the distant south.

“When I came, the camp was an overcrowded filthy slum,” said the brahmachari. who wears glasses with thick lenses. A tuft of hair, hangs from the top of his otherwise shaven head.

“It was the. rainy season and the camp was always submerged in ankle‐deep water,” he went on. “I organized volunteers from the refugees and raised the ground. We filled up all the sewage trenches running through the tents.

“The refugees learned to live hygienically and happily...We are all living as one happy family here.”

The brahmachari, who is sworn to celibacy and the renunciation of all comforts, said he derived happiness from serving the refugees.

Refugees Wait for Help

“Now every one of them wants to go back to their homes, which is quite natural for them,” he said. “But cannot go with them.”

Eager as they are to get back, the refugees hesitate to leave immediately. Most are Hindus and it was they who suffered most under the Pakistani military repression.

“We are ready to leave any time now,” said Krishna Mari dal, a 44‐year‐old Hindu refugee from the Faridpur district in East Pakistan, “but we are waiting for the Government, to help us. I went to see my home yesterday. It is there, no one has occupied it, but it still has no roof.

Mr. Mandal fled with his wife and three children to India last May when the razakers, Moslem collaborators of the Pakistani Army, raided his village and burned down rows of houses.

Camp officials say that during the two‐week war between India and Pakistan that ended last Thursday, the refugees felt very nervous. More than 4.5 million scattered in the camp north of the Ganges River—in Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura —were temporarily cut off from supplies.

Nevertheless, the refugees kept their spirits high by organizing “victory parades” every clay. News of the first victories of the Indian Army at Jessore and Mymensingh in East Pakistan.came within five days of the start of the war, and the refugees, who earlier had little hope of returning to their homes, began to look forward to doing so eagerly.

According to official figures, only a hundred thousand of the 9.8, million refugees in India have returned home on their own so far.

The Indian Government has had talks this week with the leader's of Bangladesh, the name given by the insurgents to the new country they proclaimed, on the repatriation of refugees, India was reported to be willing to underwrite the entire cost — transport, rations for 10 days and construction of transit camps Inside Bangladesh. The mass exodus will begin in two weeks.

All but a few officials like Brahmachari Vasudev express happiness and relief. “Thank God, the nightmare is over,” said one official in Calcutta.

The brahmarchari will not go unrewarded. For the devotion be has demonstrated he is bound to get the title of sadhu of the Ramakrishna Mission, which will entitle him to a new name with the suffix “ananda,” meaning happiness, a saffron robe, a fully‐shaven head and the chance of more service among destitutes elsewhere.