Madurai Education Profile

Madurai Education Profile:

221 recognized schools
27 engineering colleges
130 arts and science colleges
1 agricultural college
1 medical college
1 law college
4 universities - Gandhigram Rural university, Mother Teresa university for women, Alagappa University and Madurai Kamaraj University

Virtual Convocation for IGNOU in Madurai

Students of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) from 17 districts in the State attached to Madurai Regional Centre will, for the first time, have an opportunity to participate in the annual convocation in Madurai itself, thanks to teleconference facility.

read more here

Central Finance Minister of India P.Chidambaram in Thiagarajar College Of Engineering (TCE), Madurai

Did you know Central/Union Finance Minister of India P.Chidambaram inaugurated Thiagarajar College Of Engineering (TCE) Madurai's golden jubilee celebrations in March 2008?

Here is what he says about indian finance situation...click here

Lady Doak College Madurai

Lady Doak College has a website, with good amount of information about the college.

Please check out the website




About Lady Doak College, Madurai

Lady Doak College, a premier Christian Institution and the first Women's College in Madurai, was the brainchild of Ms.Katie Wilcox, an American missionary with a vision and fervor for women empowerment. The College made its humble genesis in 1948, and within a short span of time, in 1978, it was commissioned to function as an autonomous college, being affiliated to the Madurai Kamaraj University. As an Ecumenical Christian College whose purpose is to impart quality education of Christian character to students of all creeds, this college strives to develop their intellectual powers, locate, identify and cultivate their interests and talents and train them to be responsible and useful citizens. The college, presently, functions as a unit of Katie Wilcox Education Association and stands distinguished as one of the pioneering autonomous colleges in India.

Clash among students in PTR College, Tirumangalam/Thirumangalam, Madurai

Madurai Students

Clash among students in PTR College, Thirumangalam/Tirumangalam Madurai.

Looks like there was dislike between 2nd year BE students and 3/4th year BE students sometime back. Today, the clash happenned to occur between these two set of groups. The college properties like windows, chairs, tables etc., were broken. College Management is seriously upset.

The above part is a news!

However, is this the situation in Madurai Colleges? Is education not part of College teachings? Is this the standard of students in Madurai?!

I am like a stupid writing/blogging positive things about Madurai and Madurai students!? I wish things change or I will pray god that let all the above be an exception!!!

This is a definite unfortunate news for Madurai Alumni Students!!

Madurai Kamaraj University Results: Distance Education

You can find madurai kamaraj university results in the following link -

Madurai Kamaraj University Distance Education Results

Procedure to start a company in Madurai

Types of Business Entities

Private Limited Company
Public Limited Company
Unlimited Company
Partnership - Limited and Unlimited
Sole Proprietorship
Applicable law
The Indian Companies Act of 1956

Forming a Company in India

The Companies Act of 1956 sets down rules for the establishment of both public and private companies. The most commonly used corporate form is the limited company, unlimited companies being relatively uncommon. A company is formed by registering the Memorandum and Articles of Association with the State Registrar of Companies of the state in which the main office is to be located.

Foreign companies engaged in manufacturing and trading activities abroad are permitted by the Reserve Bank of India to open branch offices in India for the purpose of carrying on the following activities in India:

· to represent the parent company or other foreign companies in various matters in India, for example, acting as buying/selling agents in India, etc.;

· to conduct research work in which the parent company is engaged provided the results of the research work are made available to Indian companies;

· to undertake export and import trading activities;

· to promote possible technical and financial collaboration between Indian companies and overseas companies.

Application for permission to open a branch, a project office or liaison office is made via the Reserve Bank of India by submitting form FNC-5 to the Controller, Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Section of the Reserve Bank of India. For opening a project or site office, application may be made on Form FNC-10 to the regional offices of the Reserve Bank of India.

A foreign investor need not have a local partner, whether or not the foreigner wants to hold full equity of the company. The portion of the equity thus not held by the foreign investor can be offered to the public.

Incorporating a Company:

Approval of Name: The first step in the formation of a company is the approval of the name by the Registrar of Companies (ROC) in the State/Union Territory in which the company will maintain its Registered Office. This approval is provided subject to certain conditions: for instance, there should not be an existing company by the same name. Further, the last words in the name are required to be "Private Ltd." in the case of a private company and "Limited" in the case of a Public Company.

Memorandum and Articles, etc.:

The Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association are the most important documents to be submitted to the ROC for the purpose of incorporation of a company. The Memorandum of Association is a document that sets out the constitution of the company. It contains, amongst others, the objectives and the scope of activity of the company and also defines the relationship of the company with the outside world.



The Articles of Association contain the rules and regulations of the company for the management of its internal affairs. While the Memorandum specifies the objectives and purposes for which the Company has been formed, the Articles lay down the rules and regulations for achieving those objectives and purposes.



The ROC will give the certificate of incorporation after the required documents are presented along with the requisite registration fee, which is scaled according to the share capital of the company, as stated in its Memorandum. A private company can commence business on receipt of its certificate of incorporation.



A public company has the option of inviting the public for subscription to its share capital. Accordingly, the company has to issue a prospectus, which provides information about the company to potential investors. The Companies Act specifies the information to be contained in the prospectus.



The prospectus has to be filed with the ROC before it can be issued to the public. In case the company decides not to approach the public for the necessary capital and obtains it privately, it can file a "Statement in Lieu of Prospectus" with the ROC.



On fulfillment of these requirements, the ROC issues a Certificate of Commencement of Business to the public company. The company can commence business immediately after it receives this certificate.
If you want an investor for your business, here is a best BANK for you
http://www.sidbi.com/
Here is the list of investors and banks. Please browse by clicking other bank related links in this site - http://www.maduraidirectory.com/bandf/forex.php

Registration Form:
http://indcom.tn.nic.in/guideline.asp
http://www.madurai.tn.nic.in
http://www.tn.gov.in - click on documents to get various goverment's documents you might need.

Private Limited Company
A private company is a company which has the following characteristics:

shareholders’ right to transfer shares is restricted;
the number of shareholders is limited to fifty; and
an invitation to the public to subscribe to any shares or debentures is prohibited.
Public Limited Company
A public company is defined as a company which is not a private company. The following conditions apply only to a public company:

It must have at least seven shareholders.
A public company is not authorized to start business upon the grant of the certificate of incorporation. In order to be eligible to commence business as a corporation, it must obtain another document called "trading certificate".
It must publish a prospectus or file a statement in lieu of a prospectus before it can start transacting business.
A public company is required to have at least three directors.
It must hold statutory meetings and obtain government approval for the appointment of the management.
There are several other provisions contained in the Companies Act 1956 which are applicable only to public companies and should be consulted.

In addition to this,

Procedure for Starting of New Institutions and Additional Courses

Managements desiring to establish new institutions shall get the application from the AICTE (Chennai Office) on payment of the prescribed fees (presently Rs.5000/-.) The applications in the AICTE format for starting new Engineering Colleges/Polytechnics and for starting new courses in the existing institutions are to be submitted to the AICTE, State Government, University etc. as indicated in the formate.

The infrastructural facilities with regard to the availability of land, buildings and finance provided by the applicants will be physically verified by an Expert Committee constituted by the Director of Technical Education on payment of inspection charges and the report will be submitted to the Government with suitable recommendation for the issue of No Objection Certificate. Based on the No Objection Certificate, the AICTE will issue by the viability letter and physically verify the infrastructural facilities available for establishing the institution. Final approval will be granted based on the merit of the recommendations of the Inspection Committee. After getting the approval, the management has to approach the University or State Board of Technical Education for the affiliation.

Procedure of Starting of Commerce Institutions

Commercial Institutions imparting training in Typewriting, Shorthand and Accountancy subjects get temporary/permanent approval from the Directorate of Technical Education, Chennai. For yearly approval, the cost of application from is Rs.100/- and for permanent approval Rs.250/-. The rules and regulations for according approval of commerce institutions are furnished to the applicants who seek approval of this Department for starting such institutions.

If you have any questions, please send a mail to newmadurai@gmail.com.

Reverse Brain Drain to Madurai

As you know, I have explained in one of my previous article about NRMs. This word is similar to NRI - Non-Resident Indian.
NRM denotes Non-Resident Maduraiite. Isn't that a cool name?
This word includes all the individuals who reside outside madurai for various reasons, but track madurai happennings, or have relatives in madurai, have done schooling or college in madurai. OK, from now on I will denote those individuals as NRM, in the rest of the article.

NRMs are keeping track of Madurai through the news media and their relatives or friends at Madurai.
Seeing the progress and so called "Hype" happenning in Madurai, everybody is excited.

All the NRMs are having an idea of coming back to Madurai and live in Madurai. This is definitely a reverse brain drain for Madurai and this is expected to happen in a time frame of 4 to 5 years.

You might have read the previous article, which has a possible collection of things expected to be built in terms of commercial interest and infrastructure improvement. That definitely interests lot of people and NRMs will be definitely interested to come back to MADURAI.

Good for Madurai!!

Be Hungry for facts and information!

Be Hungry and Stay Hungry - not for Pizza, but for Facts!!!

As food is for stomach, facts and information is for our brain.
Be really hungry for the facts.

Listen to information and news audio channels or televisions or read the informative websites. Do not just waste time in only the movie related informative media.

These days, news comes in various ways. Unfortunately majority of our indian media concentrates on the movies and movie related programmes. This is terrible, in terms of culture and growth of the country.

If you are in United States, try listening to NPR news, BBC or CNN! They are awesome. The advantage with "National Public Radio" is - it comes in any city! Another thing is they don't have any commercial in between the programmes. All things are considered! They are awesome in bringing information to the consumers.

I am sure similar stuff is in india as well - like CNN IBN, NDTV etc., Do not just watch the movie based channels. Let us get out of the closet and explore the world.

Feed the mind with lot of facts, automatically there will be lot of processing inside our brains to produce very productive thoughts.

Be Hungry and Stay Hungry - not for Pizza, but for Facts!!!

Inspiring candidate from Madurai - IAS!

A candidate from Tamil Nadu who did his degree course through distance education even while working as a clerk in the Railways has made it big in the All India Civil Services Examinations, 2006 .

It was not a specialised coaching material or intensive classes that took him to the 56th position in the national ranking and second in the State. He relied mostly on the district libraries, magazines and newspapers.

Twenty-six-year-old A. Saravanan of Tirunelveli did his B.Com through Madurai Kamaraj University's distance education stream.

The above is an extract from the popular south indian newspaper "The Hindu". Please read on in The Hindu

Educational Quality in Madurai - to be improved...

"Ninety per cent of engineering students in the State, despite possessing adequate knowledge, are still not job-ready. The students need to work more to improve their professional and soft skills," Prof. E. Balagurusamy, vice-chancellor, Anna University, said today.

This factor emerged in the first cycle of the State-wide placement programme initiated by the university this year.

Of the 1,975 students from 168 colleges in the Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai regions, who were screened by the information technology majors, Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Wipro, only 207 found placement.

Tamil Nadu has over 220 self-financing colleges. Of them only 168 could sent students who were eligible or met the criteria set by the three IT companies for the Statewide recruitment. Finally, the selected students were only from 81 colleges. The other colleges could not get even one of their students recruited in the leading multinationals.

Poor Communication

"From the feedback we get, it is clear that even students having enough knowledge do not possess communication skills and the courage and confidence required to get a job in TCS or Wipro ... Some students could not even initiate a discussion when they sat before the recruiters," Prof. Balagurusamy told newspersons after inaugurating another cycle of recruitment here.

Looks like our students are not trained on the communication, presentation and other skills...while they acquire the knowledge in the college or school...