Don Bosco Bhavan, Mannuthy, is an aspirantate (Junior Seminary) of the Province of Bangalore of the Salesians of Don Bosco. It was started in 1971 as an apostolic school with students attending high school. To this effect also a High School sanctioned by the government of Kerala was started the same year.  From 1995 the practice of accepting high school students was discontinued and they were replaced with post SSLC aspirants.