Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore

The centre was started in 1930 and made a branch of the Mission in 1934. It is a comprehensive educational institution spread over a spacious campus on the Coimbatore–Ootacamund Road.

Activities:

1. A higher secondary school.

2. A residential secondary school.

3. A senior basic school, including children with disabilities.

4. A primary school.

5. Institute of Agricultural and Rural Development: Offers diploma-level training in horticulture, nursery, gardening, composting, animal husbandry, dairy, farm maintenance and rural development.

6. Autonomous Polytechnic College: Offers diploma courses in various engineering disciplines.

7. Industrial Training Institute: Offers NCVT-approved technical courses in multiple trades.

8. Residential Autonomous Teachers’ Training College: Offers BEd, MEd, MPhil and PhD programmes, conducts research, publishes a quarterly journal, and hosts an IGNOU study centre. It also runs a tuition centre for rural students.

9. Autonomous College of Arts and Science: Offers undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil, PhD and vocational programmes under both grant-in-aid and self-financed streams.

10. Autonomous Maruthi College of Physical Education: Offers programmes in physical education and has well-equipped sports science laboratories.

11. Off-campus centre of RKMVERI (Deemed University), Belur:

• Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education (FDMSE): Offers BEd, MEd, integrated programmes, diplomas, and doctoral programmes in various disability-related streams.

• Faculty of General & Adapted Physical Education and Yoga (FGAPEY): Offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes in physical education.

• Faculty of Agriculture, Rural & Tribal Development (FARTD): Offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in rural and tribal development.

• Faculty of Computer Science Applications & Research (FCSAR): Offers an integrated MSc programme.

• Students’ hostels for boys and girls.

• A central library with a large collection of books and periodicals.

12. Disabled Trainees’ Vocational Production and Rehabilitation Centre: Produces notebooks and provides employment opportunities for economically backward and differently abled individuals.

13. Seven hostels.

14. Publication Department: Publishes books in Tamil and English.

15. Swami Vivekananda Cultural and Heritage Centre: Conducts yoga classes, Bharatanatyam classes, courses on Indian culture and values, physical fitness programmes, online quiz programmes, free meal distribution, and maintains an exhibition on Indian Cultural Heritage.

16. A dispensary.

17. Medical, eye, dental and ENT camps.

18. Ramayana Park offering educational and cultural recreation for children.

19. Vidyalaya Integrated Rural Development Scheme: Includes medical camps, cultural programmes, tuition classes, and distribution of ration kits and nutritious food.

20. Cultural activities such as youth conventions, teacher training camps and personality development programmes.