[1] It runs an orphanage, school, old age home and hospital all free of cost for the underprivileged people in the village of Kasuva near Thiruninravur about 40 km west of Chennai, Tamil Nadu in southern India.
Inspired by the ideals and life of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahakavi Bharathiyar and Swami Vivekananda, V. Muralidharan, along with a group of colleagues formed the charitable trust Sevalaya.
The aim is to offer better opportunities to the poor, orphan and destitute children by fulfilling their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter and also providing value based education and medical care.
From a humble beginning, with 5 children, in a thatched shed at Kasuva village in the year 1988, now Sevalaya's service center functions from its own campus in nearly 14 acres (57,000 m2) of land at Kasuva Village near Thiruninravur (40 km west of Chennai), sheltering over 200 destitute boys and girls, also running a free higher secondary school which provides quality education for over 2500 destitute, poor and rural children.
The activities of Sevalaya include Swami Vivekananda Boys Home and Mother Teresa Girls Home- providing shelter to 200 orphan and destitute boys and girls from broken homes, Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School (recognised by Government of Tamil Nadu but unaided) providing free education in vernacular medium to 2500 rural children including the residents of the Homes, Mahatma Gandhiji Medical Centre providing free medical care, Swami Vivekananda Free Library, Kasthurba Craft Centre providing free training in tailoring to rural women, Vinobhaji Goshala sheltering cows, and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Old Age Home sheltering 150 destitute senior citizens.
The 3000 families in the area are made up of mostly landless agricultural labourers and brick kiln workers, and most of the children are first generation school goers.
Medical camps are arranged almost once a month when teams of specialists from the city visit the institution and conduct check ups for the residents as well as the villagers.
The library has a collection of over 10,000 books including the complete works of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahakavi Bharathi and Swami Vivekananda as well as many newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
Hospital- Sevalaya Samaritan Gramodharan Samithy Puthurvayal road, M T Nagar, Gudalur, Nilgiris district Tamil Nadu - 643211 2.
Tuition centre- Sevalaya's Dr Agarwal Education Resource Centre, Kuvamoola, Panthalur Taluk, The Nilgiris District - 643233 3.
School- 9840152935 Orphanage, Old age home & Goushala- 9884568426 Hospital- 9360869771 Sevalaya, Kasuva village, Pakkam post, Near Thiruninravur, Thiruvallur District - 602024