ABOUT THE TRUST AND ITS ACTIVITY

The Mahendra Educational Trust was founded in the year 1978 by Shri. M. G. Bharath Kumar, a renowned educationist and a philanthropist with burning urge for providing high standard of education to rural children. With this noble intention as his mission started Mahendra Matriculation Higher Secondary School at Kalippatti and Mahendra Matriculation School at Kumaramangalam, Tiruchengode, two in English medium and one H.S.S in Tamil medium.

With his vision to achieve excellence and to produce highly skilled professionals, he established Mahendra Engineering College in the year 1995 with the approval of AICTE, New Delhi and affiliation of the University of Madras. Initial intake in engineering was 180 students in three disciplines of Mechanical, Electronics and communication, and Computer science and Engineering. Today the college has 7 disciplines in Engineering and 10 in applied science group in UG and PG programmes, serving over 2100 students.

As per the G.O No : MS 25 Dt. 23/01/2002 issued by Government of Tamilnadu, all the colleges in Tamilnadu came under the control of Anna University effective from 31/12/2001. Therefore now the Mahendra Engineering College is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

In furtherance of his objective and vision, Mahendra Arts and Science College was started in the year 1999 at Kalippatti to provide education in English literature, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Maths.

A Tamil Medium matriculation school to serve the rural community was started in 2002 at Sembampalayam just a km away from Mahendra Engineering College.

The Engineering College is an ISO 9001-2000 certified institution. The college has well defined quality policy, objectives, quality manual and quality system procedure and lays emphasis on orderly implementation, subjected to timely checks and evaluation through tests and feedback and continually strive for improvement to satisfy the stake holders, the students and their parents, and all connected with the Institution.