Gandhigram Rural Institute
Gandhigram Rural Institue is situated around 10km from Dindigul, around 65 from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Its surrounded by the Sirumalai hills of the Kodai mountain ranges.
Birth of Gandhigram
During the late forties, when Mahatma Gandhi was going around the country mobilising people to fight agaist the British, he got down at a spot near the sirumalai hills, and rested for a while, and Gandhigram was "born".
GRI was the child of T. S. Soundram and G. Ramachandran. It is a Deemed University and boasts of courses in a variety of subjects and areas. The admission is through a nation wide enterance exam, and there is a 50% reservation for backward classes.
Gandhigram offers courses (Bachelors and Masters) in:
- Rural Development & Administration
- Journalism and Communicative English
- Animal Husbandry
- Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
- Computer Sciences
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