This centre of Ramakrishna Math was started on a hillock at Nettayam, 9 km from the Thiruvananthapuram town, in 1916. The focus of activity later moved to the city centre at Sasthamangalam.
Activities of the town centre:
- A 200-bed hospital with a psychiatric ward and paediatric, cardiology, surgical, ENT, dentistry, ophthalmology, dermatology and gynaecology departments and an operation theatre complex. It has an ayurvedic clinic with panchakarma facility and homeopathic clinic.
- A school of nursing offering GNM course.
- Under the rural health service programme, mini health centres functioned in six villages of Thiruvananthapuram district.
- A polyclinic at Kawdiar, 3 km away from the centre.
- Four units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
- Youth programmes, personality development classes and regular cultural classes in six villages, thrice a week.
- Pecuniary help was given to poor people for medical treatment, and food and tiffin to poor children.
- Regular classes, discourses in and outside the ashrama.
Activities of Nettayam sub-centre:
Daily worship, monthly retreats and celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda, as also some other festivals.