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The Madura College is
04522673354, 04522675239 .
The Madura College – Madurai is an academic institution that stands like a towering titan between centuries, A distinguished institution with a hoary past spanning a century, today it strides into a new millennium with the same dynamism and intellectual verve that it has always been known for. The College offers 9 Post-Graduate programmes and 7 Under-Graduate courses. A look into its history reads like a tale of romance.
The Government had started a Zilla School in 1856 as an outcome of Macaulay's Dispatch of 1854 on Education. In 1880 a The Madura College – Madurai Department was added to it and it was functioning on the premises where the Madura College Higher Secondary School now stands. An organization called the Madura Native High School committee was then managing two schools in Madurai, the Native High School in Annakkuzhi Mandapam in West Chitrai Street and this School had a branch in the Velli Ambalam Mandapam in South Chitrai Street. The Government lent the Zilla School building to the Madura Native School Committee in 1888.
The Committee saw potentialities in the situation. It offered to take over the Zilla School. In 1889 the School and The Madura College – Madurai departments were both taken over by this Committee which then renamed itself as the Madura College Committee. The School was then called the Madura Native College. The Committee went on to acquire another school in the city which had been started by a British Lawyer.
In 1903 it also took over the Setupathi High School and the Town Primary School when their managers found it difficult to run them. Then the Committee got itself registered under the Indian Companies Act of 1882 under the nomenclature " The Madura College – Madurai Board". The Madura Native High School was renamed as the Madura College High School and the College, The Madura College – Madurai . In 1906, a section for girls was opened in the Town Primary School marking an early step in the direction of womens education in this part of the country. The present premises of the Madura College are about 43 acres in area. Robert S. Fischer made a bequest of five and odd acres to the north of the present campus to be used as playgrounds.
The Board worked tirelessly to raise funds for putting up buildings for The Madura College – Madurai and to upgrade it into a first grade institution. It organized fund raising campaigns even conducting a Grand Raffle and selling small portions of its holdings. In 1925, the College became a first grade institution. It was only in 1937 that it could move into the present campus. But the Board could not manage to find funds for endowments and so in 1939, the College became a second grade institution.
Members of the Board and members of the staff of The Madura College – Madurai worked unrelentingly, going door to door for fund raising, and frequenting the corridors of schools to enlist students. In 1946 the College regained its First Grade Status. About a lakh of rupees was collected for endowment, buildings, prizes and scholarships. The P.M Sankara Iyer Hall came up in 1941. In 1946-47, The Madura College – Madurai got the affiliation for B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, for B.Com. in 1947-48, for B.Sc. Mathematics in 1949-50 and for B.Sc. Chemistry in 1950-51.
In 1947 the T.V.S Hostel of The Madura College – Madurai came up with a donation of about a lakh of rupees from the benevolent house of M/S T.V. Sundaram Iyengar and Sons. Pvt. Ltd. In 1949 the Harvey Library came up with the help of a donation of a lakh of rupees by the Madura Mills Co. Ltd. A gas room and the Setupati Science Block with the help of the Government and the Raja Saheb of Ramnad respectively came up later. The Madura College – Madurai celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in 1950. The Khajana Babu Rao Hostel was the contribution of his family. Several other buildings came up subsequently.
In 1956, as per the revised regulations of the University of Madras, The Madura College – Madurai started the Pre-University Course and in 1957, the three-year degree courses were introduced in Economics (B.A.) Commerce (B.Com.), Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. In the same year affiliation for the Botany course in B.Sc. was also secured. When the University of Madras finally decided to open a "Replica of the Madras University P.G. Education Center" at Madurai, the Madura College secured affiliation for post-graduate courses in Mathematics and Physics in 1958 and Chemistry the next year. In 1959 the Post-Graduate Block of the College came up.
The mission of The Madura College – Madurai is to develop the Madura College and other Institutions under the Madura College Board into leading Hindu national education institutions in South India, imparting sound education to their students, to make these Institutions serve as nurseries and upholders of liberal Hindu Culture and to renovate its ancient and basic ideals in consonance with the needs of the modern world, and to preserve, develop and enrich whatever is noble and enduring in the past history of the Hindu race, religion and culture.
The Madura College – Madurai library is named after Mr Graig Harvey of Madura Mills Co. Ltd., Madurai, whose munificent bequest of Rs.1,00,000 helped the College to construct a separate block from which the library presently functions. The foundation stone was laid by the Noble Laureate Sir C. V.Raman in 1947 and later His Excellency the Maharaja of Bhavanagar, the then Governor of Madras opened the building in 1949. The Madura College – Madurai library has a collection of over 73000 volumes, subscribes to over 70 periodicals, including newspapers, both vernacular and English. The Madura College – Madurai library caters to the information needs of the students and staff of our college who are the members of the library. Besides each department has its own departmental library where about 80% of the textbooks purchased under various grants of U.G.C and Autonomy are stacked for exclusive use by students and staff of the department.
The Madura College – Madurai library is kept open from 8.45 am to 7.00pm in the evening on all working days, with the staff working in two shifts, namely 8.45 am to 4.45 pm and 12 noon to 7 pm. The National Cadet Corps (N.C.C.) is an organization sponsored with a view to inculcate a spirit of service and sacrifice in the minds of the young men our country. The Government provides free military training to these selected young men who satisfy certain conditions regarding physical build, strength and stamina.
The aims of the N.C.C. training in The Madura College – Madurai is to develop character, comradeship, the ideal of service and the capacity for leadership in young men, to provide service training to young men so as to stimulate interest in the defense of the country, to build up a reserve of potential officers so as to enable the armed forces to expand rapidly in a national emergency. The perfect drilling and training imparted to the trainees make them acquire a fine personality and sound health. College offers different kind of Bachelor, Master, Doctoral, Diploma and Certificate courses leading to science and arts stream.
The Madura College Address
The address of The Madura College is Vidhya Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
The Madura College Email Address
The email address of The Madura College is
principal@maduracollege.org.
The Madura College Website
The Website of The Madura College is
www.maduracollege.org.
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