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Annamalai University The Annamalai University is a unitary, teaching and residential university. Annamalai University was founded by the munificence of the farsighted and noble hearted philanthropist and patron of letters the late Hon'ble Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt, LL.D., D.Litt. He started several colleges and ultimately the University in 1929. Since its inception, it has progressively tried to realize the aims of the noble Founder Pro-Chancellor. After him, his illustrious son Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar of Chettinad, was the Pro-Chancellor from 1948 to 1984 and he sedulously nurtured the growth and development of the University.
The present Pro-Chancellor Dr.M.A.M. Ramaswamy, a philanthropist and a patron of sports, is the distinguished son of Dr.Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar. The University has had the unique good fortune of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors to guide its destinies. During the last seventy eight years the University has grown rapidly and consolidated its position as a unitary and residential University with Forty nine Departments of Study and over 2500 members on its teaching staff. Annamalainagar is already a busy and full-fledged University town east of Chidambaram, the abode of Lord Nataraja.
Annamalai University has had the unique good fortune of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors to guide its destiny. Annamalai University is all set to grow from strength to strength under the stewardship of the present Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dr. M. Ramanathan, who is a reputed surgeon, conscientious educationist, an able administrator and an ardent promoter of social activities. His perceptive understanding of the expanding horizon of distance education in the country and his encouragement to the Directorate of Distance Education are highly appreciated by educationists.
Annamalai University plays a vital role in disseminating knowledge acquired through research to the surrounding rural areas in which it is placed and it serves the larger community through its Centre for Adult Education and Extension, the Regional Centre for Modernisation of Rice Mills and Extension Services, Centre for Rural Development and Uplift of Weaker Sections, the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, the Rajah Muthiah Dental College, the NSS; and above all, through its Directorate of Distance Education it takes education to the doorsteps of thousands of adult learners all over the country and abroad.
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