“My Dear children,
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools
are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour
in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance
in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day hand it on to
your children. Thus, do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which
we create in common.”
-ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Our institution, Virudhunagar S. Vellaichamy Nadar Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar
was started with a noble intention of providing quality Diploma education to students
mostly from the rural, economically backward background in the year 1958. The founder,
Thiru. S.Vellaichamy Nadar, a visionary recognized the importance of technical education
in our business town, Virudhunagar during the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61) whose
primary focus on rapid industrialization . The Management in the different periods
developed the required infrastructure, lab facilities to deliver quality knowledge
and skills to provide skilled manpower with values for the industries that came
up rapidly. We are proud to note that our institution has moulded children from
villages into leaders in the role of key- decision –making in industries, Entrepreneurs
who provide employment for thousands of people, Scientists in Premier Global Research
Centres.
Realizing theory (Knowledge) as a product of conscious practise, the stalwart
staff team of this institution acquired knowledge from different quarters of the
world through standard books written by authorities in the concerned fields, periodical
training programmes conducted in Premier institutions and transferred that knowledge
to the students. Theory with Conscious practice enrich the knowledge. Our Diploma
Curriculum dedicates more time for skill-development. The world-class laboratories
developed to reinforce the concepts learnt in theory by the Management impart the
necessary skills to cope up with the rapid development. The lab exercises have been
designed to verify the knowledge (theory) under simple conditions. The purpose of
doing the experiments and pre-requisites which leads to idea-crystallization are
imparted through Viva-Voce. Conceiving the idea, Stage by stage fabrication and
troubleshooting at each stage, right tools for right job are dealt through the Project
Work.
To cope up the rapid advancements in technology, students are encouraged to
attend the Workshops, Seminars, Paper-Presentations, Various Competitions conducted
in-house and in other institutions. The discipline, training to face hardships in
life, to overcome obstacles are delivered through the Extra-Curricular activities
– NCC, NSS, YRC. The feedback from alumni, industries and industries who are our
important stake holders are taken into account to fine tune the education systems
to cope up the technology advancement. The Training team brainstorms the training
needs necessary and trains the digital-era students. The Placement System meticulously
developed has built a strong rapport with about 400 industries right from the Corporates
to the Small-Scale industries and our institution provides 100% Placement with a
primary focus of Permanent employment in Core industries. Our institution is the
nodal-centre for Pooled Campus drives in which students from Polytechnics from South
Tamil Nadu also get benefitted. The Technical Awareness team disseminates the importance
and the scope of technical education to the needy by inviting the students and their
parents to our institution and arranging the lab visits through which they get exposed
to recent technology advancements. The R&D Centre has been started to impart
the skill sets for developing a product and to expose the students to recent technologies.
The Technology Based Learning team members are devising a model to formulate strategies
for on-line education which is the need of this hour.
Our institution is one of
the premier institutions in Tamil Nadu provided autonomy to devise our own syllabus
and evaluation from the year 1994.
My sincere thanks to the Management for their
initiatives and the support from the teaching and non-teaching staff of this 62-year
institution.
We are sure that with we continue to transfer the infinite labour of
the different generations of Scientists throughout the world to our students and
thus this institution has become immortal in the field of Technical Education!!
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“It
is not enough to teach man a specialty, though he may become a useful machine but
not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquires
an understanding and a lively feeling for values; he must acquire a vivid sense
of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he- with his specialized knowledge
more closely resembles a well trained dog than a harmoniously developed man.
Over
emphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of
immediate usefulness kill the sprit on which all cultural life depends, specialized
knowledge included.”
-ALBERT EINSTEIN, Education for independent thought,1952
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