Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore, is a major educational centre of the well-known Ramakrishna Mission. It is 19 km from Coimbatore City on the highway to Ootacamund,and is situated in a serene environment spread over about 300 acres. The Institution was founded by Sri T.S. Avinashilingam in 1930 with an investment of just Rs. 5.75 and with one harijan boy on its roll..
        
 * Give me a few men and women who are pure and selfless, and I shall shake the world 
                                                                                            Swami Vivekananda