Loganatha Narayanasamy Government College, Ponneri

Campus Location: Tiruvallur

Located in Loganatha Narayasamy Government College was first started in Chengallpattu M.G.R District. Two great industrialists Thiru. Loganathan Mudalliyar and Thiru. T. S. Narayasamy jointly donated Rs five lakhs initially to start the college in the year of 1965. Along with them, the Government of TamilNadu stretched their helping hands by donating the buildings worth of Rs three lacks in the year of 1965. The name of the college was placed in the remembrance of these two great philanthropists., Loganatha Narayanasamy Government College (Autonomous), Ponneri, Thiruvallur District, Tamilnadu is a pioneering government college which was established in the year 1965. The college presently offers 13 UG, 9 PG, 3 MPhil and 3 PhD programmes and functions in two shifts, with total student strength of 4442. The college has necessary basic infrastructure including the classrooms, laboratory, library and other amenities., The college which has the area of 60 acres is functioning in the Thirvottiyur – Ponneri road Thrivallur Dist. Four courses were introduced in the year of 1965. Due to this, the people dwelling in the North rural area from Chennai got the opportunity of getting further higher studies., Mathematics and History courses were started in the year 1966 followed by the introduction of Undergraduate programs in Physics, Chemistry and Botany. During the year of 1979-80 History and English Literature courses were introduced. In the year of 1980-81 Political science was introduced and in the year of 1993-94 Post Graduate course in Political Science was started., In the year of 1999-2000 and 2008-2009 the Computer Science under Graduate and Post Graduate courses were introduced respectively., This college was granted with NAAC accreditation with C+ grade. This college has been given the status of first grade in the academic year of 2007-2008., In the year 2011, autonomy has been granted to the college and subsequently, undergraduate courses in Computer Applications, Tamil literature and Commerce have been started in the academic year 2012 – 2013. Also, during the same period, post graduate courses in Physics, Chemistry, Plant Biology and Plant Bio-Technology, Tamil, English are also introduced in the college., To inculcate rural youngsters, under graduate and post graduate diploma courses in Entrepreneurship and Business Management are introduced in the year 2011., Vision, “Imparting higher education to the underprivileged and the rural poor, thereby goading on them to nurture hope for a reliable future”., The college enshrines in its vision the ideal of democratization of education by drawing into its ambit students from the deprived sections of society and empowering them with an education that hones life skills and employability. Having completed the year of golden jubilee, the college continues to be guided by this ideal. The increasing intake of students bears testimony to the commitment of the college and draws them into the mainstream by imparting higher education., Mission, “Creating individuals with values by giving wholesome higher education and training their minds to think freely and seek solutions to the social, cultural and economic needs thereby enabling them render vital contribution to the nation-building act”., The overarching mission of the institution was to ensure that the privilege of education reach young men and women, especially those from the weaker sections of society and to have programmes that ensure the overall development of the students. The institution strives to provide education that transforms young men and women, and enable them to face challenges in their personal and professional lives and maintain a learning atmosphere that reinforces the ideals of professional competence and social commitment.. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.