The Secretariat, which is the office of the General Secretary at the headquarters, has the following departments:
- Main Office: This deals with General Secretary’s correspondence, matters regarding admission into the Order, various conferences and meetings at the headquarters, enquiries about the various activities of the Math and Mission, and Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Bhav Prachar Parishads and does other miscellaneous functions, such as receiving visitors, etc.
- Accounts Department: Maintains the accounts pertaining to the headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. It also provides scholarships to needy students.
- Audit and Consolidation Department: The main functions of this department are: scrutiny / review of various statements of accounts and reports of works sent by the branch centres, consolidation of annual accounts of headquarters and branch centres, publication of annual general report of Math and Mission, filing income tax return, etc.
- Cash Department: Receives donations and deals with all other types of monetary transactions.
- Construction and Maintenance Department: Deals with construction and maintenance of buildings at the headquarters.
- Estate Department: This department deals with the sale of immovable assets like land and houses and also movable assets received as donations from well-wishers.
- Law Department: This department deals with all legal matters of the Math and Mission.
- Relief and Rehabilitation Department: When calamities occur, the Relief department at the headquarters directly conducts, and also provides financial assistance to branch centres to conduct, primary relief work on a massive scale and takes up large-scale rehabilitation projects. (More details)
- Staff Welfare Department: Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are among the few non-government organizations in India which readily make available to their paid staff all over the country the benefits of provident fund and gratuity through centrally administered, tax-exempted Trusts.