The centre is named after famous Nobel Prize winner Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.

[4] NCSM rates the centre as regional level and it has a total floor area of 4333 sq meters.

[5] The centre carries out numerous programs to spread science and technology knowledge amongst the general public.

[7] The centre, along with local NGO Hirwai, gives the Green Finger Award to create awareness about the environment amongst school children.

[8] In August 2007, the information and communication technology gallery was opened,[9] where then ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair declared that India would send astronauts to space by 2015.