Establishment of New Universities at Tiruchirapalli & Coimbatore Project Report

Abstract

From Introduction: Education at the University level has made steady progress in Tamil Nadu over the past 125 years. Of the five Universities functioning in Tamil Nadu at present two are of the affiliating type viz., the University of Madras at Madras and Madurai Kamaraj University at Madurai. In addition to these two, the three other Universities functioning in the State are the Annamalai University at Annamalai Nagar in South Arcot District, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University at Coimbatore confining its activities to Agriculture and Allied fields and the Perarinagnar Anna University of Technology at Madras established in October 1978, also confines itself to Technical Education. These three Universities are unitary in character.