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Bi-decennial year of college

Special Correspondent

CUDDALORE: Rajah Muthiah Medical College has achieved significant growth in the past two decades, ever since inception in 1985, and has now emerged as a post-graduate teaching institute of excellence.

The Pro-Chancellor of the university, M.A.M.Ramaswamy, inaugurated the bi-decennial celebrations of the medical college at Sastri Hall in Annamalai University, Chidambaram, on Tuesday.

Mr Ramaswamy said the dream of his father Rajah M.A.Muthiah Chettiar, who was the second founder Pro-Chancellor, of starting a medical college had become a reality on August 5,1985 that happened to be his 81st birth day of the latter.

Expressing concern over the mushrooming growth of medical colleges, Mr Ramaswamy said if this trend was not arrested it would tell upon the quality of medical education. Between Pondicherry and Chidambaram there were about seven— eight medical institutions, and if the colleges came up at this rate where to find students, he asked.

The Vice-Chanceller L.B.Venkatrangan said a peaceful atmosphere conducive for academic excellence was prevailing in the institution.

It had taken up many research projects with a financial support to the tune of over Rs 20 crores.

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