The Nalpathimala Grama Vikas Kendra (GVK) is the extension centre of the Mahatma Gandhi University, in India, at its main campus in Kottayam, Kerala. The major activities of the Grama Vikas Kendra are centered on the village of Nalpathimala. The Kendra was commissioned (on March 31, 1991) by the then Vice Chancellor, Dr. U. R. Ananthamurthy, with a vision ‘to add a chethana dimension to the chinthana preoccupations of the University’.