Ramakrishna Math
Vilanagan
P.O. Puranattukara
Dt. Thrissur 68055l
Kerala, India.
Phones: 0487-711719 & 4941231


A Note from the Website Administrator
We have not yet been able to get in touch with this center and collect a formal appeal, which we plan to do over course of time but which might take a considerable while due to our having to get in touch with a large number of centers, the remoteness of the centers, as well as their not having any readymade formal appeals in hand.

What we have portrayed below, therefore, is the philanthrophic/charitable activities conducted by this center as submitted in their annual report to the Ramakrishna Mission Headquarters.

As should be obvious, all philanthrophic/charitable activities of Ramakrishna Mission are supported through contributions from kind hearted folks and/or institutions.


Started in 1927 and affiliated in 1929, this ashrama conducts the following:

  • A Lower Primary school with 467 children,
  • A high school with 1036 boys,
  • Sanskrit coaching classes for boys,
  • A Gurukula with 133 boys (15 Harijans and 29 orphans)
  • A child welfare centre with 28 Harijan children,
  • Welfare work, such as pecuniary help to poor students, destitutes etc., expending about Rs. 3,85,000 annually,
  • A publication department including a press which brings out books in Malayalam,
  • A publication of Prabuddha Keralam, a Malayalam monthly,
  • A charitable allopathic dispensary which treats about 6250 cases annually,
  • A hospital with 18 beds which cares for about 725 patients annually,
  • Monthly and annual spiritual retreats for the devotees,
  • Daily worship and bhajans as also regular religious classes for the public in and outside the Ashrama,
  • Birth Anniversaries of religious celebrities besides festivals
The Town branch at Punkunnam conducts the following:
  • Free Sanskrit classes and weekly religious classes, and
  • A library and reading-room with about 4975 books and 16 periodicals and dailies