MAJOR EVENTS ( THROUGH THE YEARS)

2009 - 2010

2008 – 2009

 

    The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Culture, SCSVMV and Yogi Ramsuratkumar Research Foundation for Asian Culture at Yogi Ram Suratkumar Ashram, Thiruvannamalai jointly organized the Second National seminar on the topic “Jeevanmuktas of Bharatam” on 2nd and 3rd February 2008. Seven invited speakers presented papers and 15 participants attended the Seminar.

2007 – 2008 

  •  U.G.C X Plan grant was received in January 2007 for the establishment of a Computer Centre with campus networking at our Mahavidyalaya.
     

  • Staff Quarters and Non-Resident Student Centre, under UGC X Plan Development Assistance, are under advanced stage of construction and are set for completion by the end of March 2007.
     

  • Construction of a Seminar Hall, under UGC X Plan grant towards strengthening the MBA Departmental infrastructure, is under progress and will be completed before the end of the X Plan.
     

  • The inspection team from NCTE, Bangalore visited our University on 26.11.06 and approval was granted on 03.02.07 to start B.Ed. programme from the academic year 2007.
     

  •  Shri. Venkat Subramanian, Angarai International Inc., USA, visited the Mahavidyalaya and delivered a special lecture titled “Emerging Trends in Project Management” on February 3, 2007. 
     

  •  Dr. Subramanian Swami, Former Union Minister and Visiting Professor, Harvard University visited Mahavidyalaya on 20.02.2007 and delivered a Special Lecture on “Ethics for Engineers and Managers”. Scholarships were distributed by the chief guest to more than 100 meritorious students of Mahavidyalaya. 
     

  • National Science Day was celebrated on 28.02.2007 and Science Day address was delivered by Prof. R. Parthasarthy, Adjunct Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute.
     

  •  A National Seminar on Facets of Consciousness was organized by the University on March 2-3, 2007, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Peetarohana (ascendancy to the spiritual throne) of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswami. 15 eminent experts presented invited papers on different themes of consciousness studies.
     

  •  Bachelor degree programme in Education (B.Ed.) approved by NCTE was launched successfully during the academic year with an intake of 100 teacher trainees. 
     

  •  The M.Phil. Programme in Sanskrit and M.E. (Part Time) in power system are the two new courses approved by the Academic Council and started during current academic year. 
     

  •   An interim grant towards Equipments and Books / Journals and an adhoc grant towards merger scheme were received from UGC for the period 2007 – 2008 and the same will be adjusted against the actual XI Plan allocation towards Development Assistance at a later date. 
     

  •   A two day National Seminar on “Ramayana” was organized on 05.06.2007 and 06.06.2007 as a joint venture between the University and Yogi Ramsuratkumar Research Foundation. Ten eminent scholars were invited for special lectures on Ramayana and more then 34 contributed papers were presented. The deliberations during the seminar were intensive and interesting. The feedback response from participants was quite good. 
     

  •     A new Computing Centre with high end servers and clients facilitated by campus networking and state of the art software platform, has been established and the Centre was named as Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Computing Centre. The Centre was inaugurated on 31.07.2007, coinciding with the 73rd Jayanthi of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal. Further, UGC under the UGC-Inflibnet scheme has sanctioned an increase in bandwidth of ERNET connectivity from 256 kbps to 2 Mbps to enable net connectivity with speed for multi-users. 
     

  •      A crash course on “Dot Net” for final year BE and MCA students was conducted during weekends of August and September 2007 and the student response was very encouraging. 
     

  •     The University took an initiative to form “Student Employability Development Council’ (SEDC) and the first meeting was convened on November 19, 2007 at Chennai. Distinguished academicians industrialists and corporate experts formed the chorum. A. power point presentation made by Shri.V.G.Sarangan, Dean (HR, T&P) of our Mahavidyalaya brought the key issues into focus and this.  
     

  •     A free of charge 8 day Crash Course on “Sanskrit, Yoga and Gita Classes was jointly organized by Yogi Ramsurat Kumar Research Foundation for Asian Culture and SCSVMV, during 24-31 Dec’07 at Yogi Ramsurat Kumar Ashram, Tiruvannamalai. Hon’ble Justice Shri.T.S.Arunachalam presided over the inaugural function. 
     

  •     A Special lecture on Advaita Vedanta was organized on 18.01.2008 for the benefit of twenty-five foreign delegates from University of Wales, UK, Prof.Nicholas Sutton, Professor in Hinduism at Oxford University, UK was the chief of the delegation. An interactive session arranged during the seminar following the lecture was found beneficial for participants in clarifying doubts relating to Advaita Philosophy. The envisaged programme appreciated by the foreign delegation team, showed the impact and pervasive power of Adi Shankara’s system of philosophy. 
     

  •     The annual day function of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Ayurveda College and Hospital – a constituent unit of our Mahavidyalaya – was celebrated in the benign presence of His Holiness Pujyasri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal on January 26, 2008. Vaidyasri.S.V.Radhakrishnan Sastrigal, a renowned Ayurveda Expert as the Chief Guest for the occasion, delivered the key note address and Shri.B.Chandrasekar, Chairman and Managing Trustee, Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Charitable Trust presided over the function. 
     

  •    A two day National Seminar on “Jeevan Mukthas of Bharatham” is being organized on 02.02.2008 and 03.02.2008 at Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu as a joint venture between the University and Yogi Ramsuratkumar Research Foundation. Seven eminent scholars have been invited for special lectures on the topic and more than 24 contributed papers have been accepted for presentation.  

 

2006 – 2007

  • Dr.Venkat Subramanian, President and CEO, Angarai International Inc., Washington D.C., USA, visited our Mahavidyalaya on 7th January 2006 and delivered a special seminar talk entitled ‘An update of Project Management Techniques”. 
     

  • Three new academic programmes – consisting of one Bachelor’s degree course and one Master’s degree course in Sanskrit and Traditional Sastras and one Bachelor’s (Hons) degree course in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry were approved by the Academic Council. 
     

  • Starting of Part time B.E. degree course in Engineering programme for the benefit of diploma holders in jobs in the region was approved by the Academic Council. 
     

  • A project proposal on Campus Net Working is ready for implementation. 
     

  • The second volume of University New Letter “Chandrika” was released in December 2005. 
     

  • The first issue of Sanskrit New Letter named “Raka” was inaugurated in January 2006. 
     

  • National Science Day was celebrated on 28th February 2006; 300 College and School students participated in various competitions held on the occasion; Prof.V.Balaklrishnan, Senior Professor, IIT Madras, was the Chief Guest of the occasion and delivered the National Science Day Lecture. 
     

  • Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal Peetarohana Endowment Lecture, sponsored by Prof. Jagannadha Raju Foundation, was delivered on 23rd March 2006, by Prof. Dr.V.Ramaswamy, Former Executive Director, RDCIS, SAIL, Ranchi on the topic entitled “From Ancient Metallurgy to Modern Technological Innovations in steel”. His Holiness graced the occasion by his benign presence. 
     

  • New academic programmes – Bachelor Degree in Physical Education and M.Phil programmes in Sanskrit, Management and Mathematics respectively were approved by the Academic Council. 
     

  • Dr. Ravindra Tampa, USA, visited the Mahavidyalaya and delivered special lectures titled “Programmable Logic Circuits” & Image Processing” on August 1 – 2, 2006. 
     

  • MoU was signed between Yogi Ramsuratkumar Research Foundation for Asian Culture and the Mahavidyalaya on September 28, 2006, for promotion of Sanskrit and research on Vedas with particular reference to Vedic Vision of Nature. An Endowment in the name of Yogi Ramsuratkumar was created with a corpus fund towards organizing annual endowment lecture on “Spirituality and Society”.

2005 – 2006

  •    Vice – Chancellor as a member of UGC Promotion of Indian Higher Education Abroad (PIHEAD) Indian delegation visited Kenya, Ethiopia and Nairobi between June 6 – 17, 2005.
     

  •    Vice – Chancellor visited London as a special invitee to the convocation of Charles Stuart University, Australia at their London Campus at London School of Commerce – London on October 5, 2004.
     

  •    Memorandum of Association has been signed between Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and our Deemed University.
     

  •  An academic advisory council has been constituted to revamp the curriculum during the year 2004 – 2005 and also to monitor the academic programmes in our Deemed University as part of Academic Audit.
     

  • A Library committee has been constituted to monitor the purchase of books and to establish Departmental libraries during 2004 – 2005.
     

  • NAAC steering committee has been formed to prepare the report for submission to NAAC.
     

  • Book Exhibition was conducted in the Library between January 22 – 24, 2005.
     

  • A new centre has been started at Kodaikanal during the academic year 2004 – 2005.
     

  • National Science Day was organised on February 19, 2005.
     

  • A new Ladies Hostel was inaugurated in the premises of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Ayurveda College, a unit of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya on 31st August 2005. 
     

  • The manuscript section of our Mahavidyalaya, which is a Manuscript Resource Centre (MRC) recognized by National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), Department of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi, has surveyed, listed and documented with descriptive cataloguing about 1400 manuscripts during the last one year. 
     

  • Dr.N.K.Jain, Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission, visited the Manuscript Section in October 2005, and expressed his appreciation of the progress achieved. 
     

  • Prof.Dr.Rishi Dev Anand, Director (Research), Association of Indian Universities, visited our Mahavidyalaya on 21st July 2005 and got an appraisal of the various academic programmes. 
     

  • Prof. Dayanand Dongoankar, Secretary General, Association of Indian Universities, visited our Mahavidyalaya and gave the valedictory address at the AIU South Zone Inter-University Quiz Contest held in our University Campus. 
     

  • Prof. Dr. Rajshekar Sundarraman, Dept. of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, visited our Mahavidyalaya on 27th Dec.05 and delivered a special seminar talk entitled “XML Technologies and Applications”.

2004 – 2005

  • His Excellency the President of India Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated two postgraduate courses in M.E. Power Systems and M.E. Manufacturing and also inaugurated the PG Block. 
     

  • His Excellency the King of Nepal declared open the Sankara Statue. 
     

  • Hon’ble Minister of Finance Shri Jaswant Singh inaugurated the Faculty of Educational Technology and Hon’ble Minister of Defence George Fernandes presided over the function. 
     

  • His Excellency the Governor of Mizoram Shri. Amolak Rattan Kohli addressed the students of MBA. 
     

  • Padmashri S. Ramakrishna Project Director ISRO addressed the students. 
     

  • The University has applied to the Government for starting MBBS, MD in Ayurveda and B.Ed courses from the academic year 2004 – 2005. 
     

  • Board of Studies and Academic Council meetings were held.  Credit system has been introduced in all the departments excepting Ayurveda. 
     

  •   Second floor of PG Block and Compound wall were constructed. New Roads were laid. 
     

  •    Intercom facility was upgraded. 

  •    Our University has been shortlisted for PIHEAD 
     

  •    UGC has sanctioned Rs.2.35 crores as development grant for the Xth Plan and has released the first instalment of Rs. 45 lakhs. 
     

  •    The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi visited our University. 
     

  •    National Science day was celebrated. 300 College and School students participated. Competitions were held and prizes were distributed. 
     

  •    Ayur surabhi a bi-monthly journal is being published by Ayurveda College from this year. 
     

  •    A newsletter MEA is being published by the Department of Mechanical Engineering from this year. 
     

  •   Alumni associations were started in different departments.
     

  •   A new DLP centre started functioning at Abhirampuram from this year.
     

  •   Remedial coaching classes were arranged for slow learners.
     

  •   A 100 bedded hospital building was constructed at Ayurveda College
     

  •   CCIM has permitted to admit 50 students in BAMS course.
     

  •   Seven medical camps were conducted by Ayurveda college
     

  •   Through campus interview 34 students of Management department got placement.
     

  •   Energy audit was undertaken with the help of CSIR laboratory
     

  •   Recognition was granted to the Society for Human Science and Service, Visakhapatnam for conducting research leading to M.Phil and Ph.D.
     

  •   ECE Department has started a servicing wing to repair the equipments.
     

  •   Minister of Health Education from Jammu & Kashmir visited our campus.