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.


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

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