CSR activities

Education

Client

Poleton Inc.

Completed

July 2019

Timeframe

6 Months

Website

poletoninc.com

Vellayan Chettiar Higher Secondary School

The school caters to 2335 students providing English and Tamil Medium education. Due to pandemic online classes were conducted for the students throughout the year.
Owing to the pandemic, Tamil Nadu State Board has cancelled the examinations for Class X students. All students have been promoted to Class XI.
Based on Government of Tamilnadu’s directives Board Exams- 2021 for Class XII has been cancelled. Results awaited.

AMMC Centenary scholarship

Full fee scholarships are provided to poor, meritorious students who are pursuing Professional / Arts and Science Courses.
For year 2020-21, totally 130 students where awarded scholarships. Out of this were 25 New students who have been awarded scholarships during the year 2020-21.
Trainings like soft skills were imparted to the scholars. Some of them have cleared the TNPSC Group–II and IV exams.
Some of the medical students are working in the COVID Wards in government hospitals

Corpus Funds

AMMF has been expanding its activities both in the area of education and healthcare. The corpus fund is being utilized to support these projects.

Shri. AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Center (MCRC)

MCRC continues its activity of carrying out Research & Development on Novel applications of natural products for rural India

Extraction and evaluation of Dyes and Pigments from Various Natural Sources.
Continuous utilization of microbial dyeing unit for research.
Development and evaluation of natural dye based medical textiles.
Development of paper based biosensors for detection of pesticides.
Laccase production from microbes.

Significant Research activities in 2020-21

Indigo cultivation and Extraction

Help farmers to get extra / alternative income from the cultivation process and extra income to the extraction facility operated by an entrepreneur.

Dyes from Microbial sources

Revival of Traditional practices of use of Chay root for Colour-fast Red dye for improving the extraction and fastness properties of pigments & dyes and exploring new pigment producing organism.

Pigments from Algae

People in south east coast will get benefit out of this technology.

Pilot-scale Organic Cultivation of Mushroom for Nutraceutical Applications

The aim of this study was to identify the potential anti-viral compounds from Ganoderma mushroom to invade against the COVID-19 pathogenesis in order to support the use of Meditex as a textile with antiviral properties

Development of paper based biosensor for the detection of pesticides

This user friendly paper based Biosensor can be directly used by the farmers (onsite testing) to certify their product is organically grown and pesticide free to their customers/consumers.

Basic Training Provider

The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on the functioning of BTC during 2020-21.

No new admissions were taken up last year.
The students who were already on rolls were imparted trainings for the Theory part by creating Whatsapp Groups.
44 regular Welder students and 28 (27W and 1F) supplementary students had appeared for the 110th AITT exams conducted in September 2020 for which results are awaited.

Fitter	Sanctioned	On Roll
Year I (1 Unit)	20	11
Year II (1 Unit)	20	14
Year III (1 Unit)	Nil	Nil
Fitters-Total		25

Welder	Sanctioned	on Roll
Year I (4 Units)	(4 x 16) = 64	37
Year II (4 Units)	Nil	Nil
Welders-Total	64	37
Grand Total	104	62

Sl.	Description	No. of Students
1	No. of students (2019-20)	62 (37 Welders & 25 Fitters)
2	Course completed in 2020	14 Fitters
3	Remaining students in 20-21	48
4	Course discontinued in 20-21	6 students
5	No. on rolls as on date	42 students

Out of the existing 42 students:

32 Welder trade students will complete their course in the month of August 2021.
10 Fitters will complete in March 2022.

Government is yet to announce the date of final apprenticeship exams and online exams.

From the year 2021-22, It has since been decided to discontinue the BTP and focus on other long term and socially impactful projects.

Kalakshetra

TII has been contributing towards scholarships of meritorious students who are pursuing fine arts since 2015. Rs.5 lakhs was earmarked for scholarships to promising music / dance students of Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts, Kalakshetra Foundation.The funds were used to support the tuition / hostel fees and living expenses of students.

Departments: Dance and Music
Awardees: Students of high merit with consistent good academic performance in the Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts.
Criteria: Students who display passion and promise to learn and excel beyond the boundaries of the curriculum
Beneficiaries: 20 Students were awarded scholarships during the year 2020-21.

DEPARTMENT & YEAR	NO.OF STUDENTS	COLLEGE FEES
3rd year Dance	3	79,800
2nd year Dance	13	3,45,800
PG First Year Music	1	26,600
4th Year Music	3	47,800
TOTAL	20	5,00,000

IITM Hyperloop Project

Avishkar Hyperloop, which was incubated at the Centre for Innovation at IIT-M, was the lone Asian team selected to enter the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 2019, held at Los Angeles.

Comments of Elon Musk, CEO – TESLA on the project