Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti

Campus Location: Trichy

Located in Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti was established in the year 1967. It was founded by Late Shri. Mookka Pillai, a great philanthropist whose selfless spirit prompted him to take up the mission and vision of spreading higher education as early as in 1942., The great philanthropist and visionary Late Thiru. Mookka Pillai had conceived a noble idea of providing education to the children of peasants, the downtrodden and the poor section of the rural society and implemented it in the year 1942 by establishing a middle school in the rural village Puthanampatti. He had put his heart and soul in addition to his hard earned money to impart education to the rural mass of the village. During the Pre-independence days, the founder had a great reverence for Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and hence the school was named after our nation's first Prime Minister. The school was upgraded as High school in the year 1948. His another brainchild called Nehru Basic Training School paved the way for promoting a teacher in every house of the village in and around Puthanampatti., The undaunted spirit of the unlettered genius did not satisfy himself with school education alone. He envisaged yet another noble cause of imparting higher education to the people in and around Puthanampatti and his dream was realized in 1967 in the form of Nehru Memorial College., VISION, For Knowledge, Justice and Peace, MISSION, To impart the right kind of knowledge among the rural students with the aid of computers and other equipments,, To ensure social justice for the rural people through various academic and non-academic activities viz., cultural and Literary competitions, NSS, NCC, YRC, Gender Club etc., To stabilize inner peace in the minds of the young learners through meditation and Yoga practice in order to ensure peace among the rural people.. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.