Book Section :

• Books : 30,000
  
• Periodicals : 300
  
• Subjects: Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism, Linguistics, Fiction, History, Geography, Literature, Psychology, etc.

Languages :

• English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Hindi, Kannada, and Bengali.
  

General Information

Working hours : 9.00 - 12.00 noon & 3.30 - 6.15 pm / WEDNESDAY HOLIDAY

• Sri Ramakrishna Math National Primary School
  46, Basin Bridge Road, Chennai 600-079
  Strength : 750 (March-2002)
  
  This school was started in 1906 by Swami Ramakrishnananda one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. The school was opened in Basin Bridge, as this area is inhabited by people belonging to economically weaker section.
  
  
• Sri Ramakrishna Math Vivekananda Centenary Girls High School
  16, Saravana Street, Mint, Chennai 600-079
  Strength : 670 (March-2002)
  
  This school is an offshoot of the National Primary School. To commemorate the Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda, a high school (class VI to X) for girls was started in 1962. A majority of the girls passing out of the National School join this school in class VI. The school has two Tamil medium sections and one English medium section in each class.

Academic books are rented to students of higher studies like engineering, who cannot afford to purchase books of their own. They can keep the books for one year. Around 300 students make use of the Book Bank every year.

Free Tuition Centres are for the benefit of the poor and backward class students studying in 10th standard and +2 levels. Briefly, these Tuition Centres operate on the following lines:

• The students attending these classes belong to economically poor families either from slum areas or are mostly children of agricultural labourers in rural areas.
• Character-building education is also imparted along with the regular classes.
• All possible help and assistance is extended to these students beyond 10th and +2 levels to complete their graduation and till they find suitable jobs.
• In most deserving cases, payment of college fees (including for professional courses) is arranged, in addition to free supply of books from the Math's Book Bank and also from outside.
• Presently the Centres are run at two schools in the Mylapore area and 4 other centers in the city and in the rural areas at Red Hills, Sholavaram, Kavarapettai, Velliyur, Ponneri and Pazhaverkadu.
• Currently there are nearly 500 students availing of the services of these Centres. These students also actively participate in the service-oriented activities of the Math.
• There is an ever-growing demand to set up more such Centres. For starting a new centre, a minimum amount of Rs.40,000/- will be required.

Way back in 1928, the Math undertook Fire Relief work in a slum at Mylapore. Later this place developed into a colony named Ramakrishnapuram. The Math continues its service here by having a shrine-hall where coaching classes are held for poor school children.