Apollo Hospitals to open Medical College in Madurai, Chennai and Hyderabad

The Apollo Hospitals group has also been planning to set up three medical colleges at Chennai, Hyderabad and Madurai as a part of its expansion plans in medical education venture and expects the first of the three colleges to start functioning within the next two years.

The healthcare chain is already running 11 nursing and hospital management colleges.

Apollo Hospitals has been in talks with Khazanah for healthcare education in the country. Khazanah holds nearly 12 per cent stake in Apollo Hospitals.

The healthcare chain also has 1,200 pharmacies and 54 hospitals with a capacity of over 8,500 beds besides over 100 diagnostic clinics across the country.

what are the improvements needed in education in madurai?

We have already written about the Literate project in Madurai, in one of our previous articles. This project is for improving the education from the scratch.

However, there is another question - how to improve existing education in Madurai?
What is our education infrastructure today? Here is the education profile of Madurai

There are various improvement points to be considered -

1) There are colleges opened today with the motive of only profits in mind. On those days, schools and colleges were built with a motive of education in mind, but controversially these days colleges are started as a business. Money minded colleges, cannot provide great education.

Even parents are willing to provide lakhs to get their children engineering or medical degree. If they want a professional degree, they should get him study very well. Anyway, let us stick to the topic and I guess, we are moving away from the topic.

2) We need great teachers. Teachers are supposed to be highly respected people in the world. Teachers stand and all students sit in the chair, when a class is provided. Teachers stay at the same place, but the students get graduated and progress in their lives to go to the top. Hence, teacher profession is great and hats off to all the teachers! If you go to government schools, there are some teachers, who never teach, but they get hefty salaries - chitchat, do side business and never have children's education in mind. Teachers have to have vision in their mind. How do I want my children to progress? How do I inspire students to come up in life? How do I ignite the students? Teachers have to become inspiration to the students.

3) Comparing Montessori education to education in Madurai - Soft skills, social skills, thinking abilities has to be improved instead of getting the children memorizing the text books. Students has to be made understood about the meaning of the texts!

4) Reading habit has to be improved in Madurai. More corporation libraries has to be opened in Madurai and there has to be readers programme's for children. Reading habit is one great habit, if inculcated into the students, then you don't have to worry about anything. They will come up in life. If you ask any successful person or any entrepreneur about their background and hobbies - they would read lot of books.
We tried to open free libraries in the past, but we have put the project on hold for future. Once we have sufficient money, we would open Free Libraries in Madurai.

5) Inspiration and Motivation among children would help them in long run, apart from the usual text books.

6) Parents have to give extra time in their evenings and weekends for their children's education.

7) Mathematical, Language, personality and communication skills has to be improved in all respects.

This is enough for now, I believe. However, will continue this topic later with another article may be part-ii. This article was written upon request...

AIIMS in Madurai for Rs.150 crores - decision by February 10th 2009

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AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) is planned to be setup in Thoppur(Thopoor/Thopur) in Madurai. This investment is going to be for Rs.150 crores. This is going to be decided by February 10th. AIIMS Madurai would be a hospital and a research center.

What does AIIMS, Madurai mean to Madurai?
* More medical facility
* Research in Madurai
* Inspiration for youngsters
* Real estate improvement
* More business in and around AIIMS.

By the way, very much possible AIIMS in Thoppur is near Austinpatti. This is interestingly near the proposed IT park.

About AIIMS:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) (created 1956) is a medical college and hospital in India, and is an autonomous institution funded by India's Union Government. It is located in New Delhi.

It is considered as the best medical college and public hospital in the country and is globally recognised for providing low-cost medical care to a large number of patients. Most of India's VIPs (Legislators, Ministers, Judges in particular) utilize AIIMS as their primary hospital, which contributes to ensuring the maintenance of high standards.

Recently, medical professionals from various Asian, European and American countries have begun coming to AIIMS to train, as the exposure to various diseases attained there is rare in most other institutions..

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

Karumuttu Thiagarajan, Madurai: Madurai Industrialist Personality Profile

Kalaithanthai Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, Madurai

I am very excited and was stunned to read the profile of Karumuttu Thiaragarajan Chettiar, founder of Thiagarajar Mills, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai etc.,'s profile in wikipedia. It highly impresses me and inspires me.

He was the tenth and last child in his family. He was educated at St Thomas' College, Sri Lanka.

He took an active part in the struggle for Indian Independence. He founded fourteen textile mills, nineteen educational institutions, the Bank of Madura, and the Madurai Insurance Company. He also published for a number of years a daily called 'Tamil Nadu Daily'He named his tamil daily before Government of Madras named it as Tamilnadu.

Read more at wiki

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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!!