Gandhigram Rural University is situated at Gandhigram in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1956. A team of disciples of Gandhiji, Dr.T.S.Soundaram and Dr.G.Ramachandran, developed the University. The Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) was founded there in 1956 to carry on Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Nai Talim’ system of education. In the year 1976 it was declared as Central Deemed University, by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, Under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956. It is fully funded by UGC.In 2006 it was renamed as Gandhigram Rural University as per the guidelines of UGC.
Gandhigram was born in 1947. A team of dedicated disciples and contemporaries of Gandhiji, Dr.T.S.Soundaram and Dr.G.Ramachandran, developed Gandhigram, the home of many rural development programmes.
The Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) was founded in 1956. With undying faith and deep devotion to Mahatma Gandhi’s revolutionary concept of ‘Nai Talim’ system of education, Gandhigram Rural Institute has developed academic programmes in Rural Development, Rural Economics and Extension Education, Rural Oriented Sciences, Cooperation, Development Administration, Rural Sociology, English and Communicative Studies, and, Tamil and Indian Languages. Students who emerge from its portals tend to meet the personnel needs for rural development under various governmental and non-governmental schemes.
Campus:
The Gandhigram Rural Institute has a campus of nearly 200 acres in a rural setting, nestling in one of the enclaves of the beautiful Sirumalai range. To its West are chains of mountains including the beautiful Kodaikanal Hill Station. Lying North of Madurai, Gandhigram is easily accessible by rail and road. The climate of the place is pleasant all through the year and the panorama of nature surrounding Gandhigram is pleasing to the eye and inspiring to the soul.
The nearest railway station is Ambathurai, the nearest railway junction is Dindigul accessible by both broad guage and meter guage, and, the nearest major town is Dindigul. The nearest airport is Madurai.
Faculty/Departments:
A. FACULTY OF RURAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
* Department of Cooperation
* Department of Economics
* Department of Political Science and Development Administration
* Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science
* Department of Sociology
* Department of Rural Industries and Management
B. FACULTY OF RURAL ORIENTED SCIENCES
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Physics
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Home Science
* Department of Biology
* Department of Computer Science & Applications
C. FACULTY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
* Department of Rural Development
* Department of Applied Research
* Department of Adult and Continuing Education
* Department of Extension Education
Courses Offered:
* MBA(Rural Project Management)
* Mandatory Disclosure for M.Ed. Programme
* Mandatory Disclosure for MCA Programme
* Mandatory Disclosure for MBA Programme
* B.Tech Civil Engineering (Habitat Development) Programme
Contact Us:
Gandhigram Rural University
Gandhigram - 624 302
Dindigul District
Tamil Nadu
India
Phone: 2452371 to 2452375 (EPABX)
Fax No: 0451-2454466
Email: grucc@ruraluniv.ac.in
Website : www.ruraluniv.ac.in
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