Annai Violet Arts and Science College

About Annai Violet Arts and Science College

Annai Violet Arts & Science College was started by Nesarathinam Educational Trust in the year 1997 with a view to facilitating students with a holistic education to compete in the global future. With the efforts and concern of our founder, the Institution imparts value-based and holistic education to all and aims at the best to equip the students to face the competitive world. The institution is also committed to developing the complete personality of students besides academic excellence. The Management believes that pursuing knowledge is a basic requirement for all beyond this there is a need to develop righteous conduct, social responsibility to inculcate moral values, to live in harmony with society thereby following them. Its ultimate aim is to “Seek, Strive, Succeed” which is the motto of the college.

Our Founder and Chairman Chev. Dr.N.R. Dhanapalan a philanthropist, Social worker, and educationalist, started this colossal venture to educate all in this semi urban locality to make education feasible for all. His mission and vision have been carried forward by his son Mr. N.R.D. Premkumar, Secretary of the Institution, who has been steering the whole team thus far, with his innovation, motivation, and enthusiastic involvement in the entire endeavor taken up by the institution. This college is a self-financed institution, approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu and affiliated to the University of Madras.

The college is located at Ambattur in a sprawling area of 5.25 acres, with spacious classrooms, well-equipped laboratories, an excellent full-fledged library, and a big playground. The institution offers twelve under Graduate programmes and four Post Graduate programmes. We also offer value-added certificate courses & professional courses – ICWA, CMA, CA- CPT. Presently about 1505 students are studying in college. The college has experienced and a well-qualified faculty team who always strive to give their best to impart quality education to the students. Much support is extended to students academically and personally through the mentoring and counseling services offered by the college. 

The college have two units of NSS, RRC, and YRC which inculcate values and social responsibility among students such as caring and sharing, civic responsibility, respect for fellow humans, sensitivity towards the elderly and the underprivileged, and to create awareness to face environmental issues.

The college takes special initiatives to augment infrastructure so as to strengthen the teaching-learning environment. In order to provide technology-aided teaching-learning processes, four digital classrooms have been set up. Recognizing the need for good oral skills in English Language laboratories with ten systems are now in use. Systems with free internet access are available to faculty and students to encourage the use of ICTACT as a teaching-learning resource. Power Point Presentations are also encouraged in classroom sessions as well as during seminars. 

The College is surrounded by a green environment and excellent infrastructure which facilitates effective teaching and learning. The college has taken several initiatives to make the campus eco-friendly, through careful nurturing of the green cover on the campus, minimum cementing to allow for water harvesting, tree plantation, production of organic manure from organic waste generated on the campus,

The Student Forum, Career Guidance and Placement Cells undertake a number of activities for the personal enhancement and development of students. Training programmes in leadership, career skills/soft skills, personality development, entrepreneurship, etc. are held every year. There is an institutionalized mechanism for the placement of students. The Student Welfare Committee has taken several measures to avail Books from the book bank, Skills development for employability through schemes such as ‘earn while you learn’ Free coaching is given for entry into government and quasi-government services and various certificate courses.

In order to promote skill development for students, the college has a tie-up with Skill Enhancement Academy for training in Spoken English. Communication Skills and Soft Skills are also offered at regular intervals. Computer literacy is ensured by making it a part of the curriculum.

The Grievance Redressal Cell has received and redressed grievances pertaining to amenities, teaching-learning, college timing, attendance, library and administrative staff. In furtherance of its commitment to imparting holistic education, the institution endeavors to maximize student participation in extracurricular activities. A whole range of sports and games, cultural and extra/co-curricular activities are available to students. A full-fledged gymnasium has been set up to promote physical fitness among the students. Intramural competitions are held every year.

The college has always been driven by a quest for excellence; as stated in the vision it also recognized a need for Excellence and formed the IQAC (Internal Quality Assessment Cell) Committee to work towards the need and received ISO status in the quality of excellence.

As an institution dedicated to the cause of higher education, the college is aware of the role it must play in promoting gender sensitization. Gender empowerment is part of Value Education. The Women’s Cell conducts various activities, theoretical tenets of gender are communicated during these sessions and gender-related issues that underpin much of everyday life are highlighted through different strategies such as role-play, skits, collage, etc. Both the Genders are taught to respect each other.

Contributing to National development is the implicit goal of the institution. The Institution is a proud possessor of two Guinness World Records, The first record – world’s longest fresh flower garland was created with the theme World Peace. Various religious leaders from different religions were invited on a single platform to represent world peace and solidarity. The Second world record – a Longest chain of used plastic bottles, to create an awareness with the theme “Say No to Plastics”, students went door to door to canvas on the hazards of using plastics and collected plastic bottles for the record. Pamphlets were distributed, slogans were displayed for public awareness, to create social awareness, team spirit, unity in diversity, time management, and word recognition.

The institution is very much aware that the dimensions and quality of education keep on changing with time and quality cannot be assessed by a single yardstick. The institution felt the need of upgrading and assessing the development by receiving ISO -2009-2015 certification from TUV SUD, South Asia, and was assessed by the NAAC in the month of May 2015. UGC NAAC Accredited our institution with Grade B with a CGPA of 2.5 on a scale of 4.

The College aspires to grow further by going in for Permanent Affiliation from the University of Madras and to get Autonomous Status from the University Grants Commission.