The Gandhigram Rural Institute

Gandhigram had its genesis on 7th October, 1947 and it progressed and expanded remarkably in the areas of rural community development under the dynamic leadership of its founders Dr.G.Ramachandran and Dr.T.S.Soundaram Ramachandran, dedicated desiples of Gandhiji. Drawing huge inspirations from work and ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, they worked with enormous amount of zeal and commitment for the betterment of the rural people in the vicinity and it was their unstinting dedication and unwavering faith in Gandhian ideals that has made Gandhigram what it is today. The Gandhigram Rural Institute of Higher Education was started in 1956 to bring higher education closer to the villagers. The significant educational experiment, broadly conforming to the recommendations of the Dr.R.Radhakrishnan Commission relating to rural universities and rural colleges, was inaugurated by Dr.R.Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India on August 1956. The first academic block of Gandhigram Rural Institute was opened by the former Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru on December, 1957. Right from its inception, The Institute is fully funded by Government of India (the then Ministry of Education and now the Human Resource Development).