Government Arts College, Kumbakonam

About Government Arts College, Kumbakonam

Government Arts College has a lush campus with gardens and campus pond. The edifice virtually stands on the river Cauveri. The campus and buildings are having ancient and modern architectural features. The faculties of various departments are actively engaged in research and in developing innovative teaching methods. This College was formerly named as Government Arts College.

Then it was changed as Men College as a Women College was started in Kumbakonam.Considering the need for providing to women in higher education on an equal footing, the State Government declared it as a coeducational institution and renamed it as Government College in 1996.In 1987 it was granted the autonomous status and since then it is known as Government College (Autonomous).

The detailed profile of the college is presented in the annexure.The location significance of this college is singularly felt as is is drawing learners from the adjacent constituencies, where rural, semi-rural and suburban feeder institutions of higher secondary learning abound. Its presence is so academic that is transmits the academic compulsions over to the feeder schools giving them the ideal scope to aim it.

Kumbakonam, an ancient South Indian city in the Cauveri basin, was the cradle of Tamil civilization. Right from early centuries of the Christian era, this little city epitomized the traditions of urban Tamil culture in a big way through its mythic sanctity, heritage fostering populace, its temples and tanks, its palaces and its institutions scholastic and philanthropic.

The Government College (Autonomous) known as The Cambridge of South India is one among the oldest Indian Educational Institutions since nineteenth century. It was started in the year 1854. Situated on the banks of Cauveri as Cambridge on Cam, it has produced eminent scholars and professionals of no mean stature.