The Madras Seva Sadan Chetput

This institution for women and girls which was started in 1928 by Sir M. Venkatasubba Rao and Lady Venkatasubba Rao with 8 destitute women and children, today caters to more than 10,000 women and children, in various welfare activities in and around the city of Madras. And this is what they did. In 1928, with their own money ( a grand sum of Rs. 10, 000) which at that time was a generous figure indeed) they founded the Madras Seva Sadan - an institute to protect, teach and help destitute women and children - people who had been abandoned and mistreated by society. Here on the sprawling grounds of this noble institution, all the ideals and all the love in the mind and heart of Lady Andal began to take shape.