Dr. ALAGAPPA CHETTIAR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
The Alagappa Campus in Karaikudi, today, a humming beehive of educational activity, was prior to1947, a scrub jungle. A single individual – Dr. RM. Alagappa Chettiar of revered memory, accomplished the transformation of that wilderness into a center of learning.
He started the first
college in the district of Ramanathapuram (now Sivagangai District) in
Tamil Nadu in the year 1947. In the short span of a decade he established
ten institutions in Karaikudi in an almost annual succession.
| Sl. No Name
of the Institution
Year of Operation
1 Alagappa College of Arts & Science 1947 2 Dr. Alagappa Chettiar Training College 1950 3 Dr. Alagappa Chettiar Training College Model High School 1951 4 Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering & Technology 1952 5 Alagappa Montessori School 1953 6 Alagappa Primary School 1954 7 Alagappa Polytechnic 1955 8 Alagappa Preparatory School 1955 9 Alagappa School of Music 1956 10 Alagappa College of Physical Education
1956
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His personal contribution to set
up these educational institutions exceeded
well over ten million rupees. In 1948 Dr. Alagappa
Chettiar was instrumental to persuade the Central Government
to locate a key national laboratory namely
the Central Electro Chemical
Research Institute in the center of the
campus. He offered as a
gift to the Government of India 300 acres of land and
1.5 million rupees.