Major and trace element analyses of monazite by electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) are routinely carried out for several decades. U–Th–total Pb method of monazite dating is currently considered as a reliable and acceptable tool to decipher the time of geological events. The purpose of the present study isto establish the quantification conditions of monazite chronology using SXFive tactis EPMA, recently installed at the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Consistency in the chemical-chronological data of the monazites starting from the chronologically well-constrained Maocyr monazite data followed by the analysis of monazite from the garnet-cordierite gneiss of the Kerala Khondalite Belt confirms the reliability of the NCESS-EPMA facility for the U–Th–total Pb chemical age dating of monazite. By applying the same analytical setup of chemical dating, the monazites from metapelites of Madurai Block of Southern Granulite Terrain, India yield two peak ages in probability density diagram of ca. 505 Ma and ca. 590 Ma (23 spots) which is similar to the ${}^{206}$Pb/${}^{238}$U age (ca. 506 Ma and ca. 585 Ma; 34 spots) obtained by LA-ICPMS.