PSG Manavar Illam boys on maiden flight trip

7 Boys from PSG Sarvajana Higher Secondary School belonging to the Manavar Illam, run by PSG &Sons’ Charities, for receiving top marks in the current academic year, exhibiting utmost devotion to education, discipline and the spirit of brotherhood & benevolence, are being taken to Bengaluru for a 4 day tour via an air-plane.

In a special van, they will visit the tourist spots in the said destination. And once they are done with Bengaluru, the chosen ones will visit Mysuru  and then return to Coimbatore.  The students are accompanied by Veluswamy, Warden, PSG Manavar Illam . All the expenses are borne by PSG &Sons’ Charities.

Talking to N.C.Nandagopalan, Secretary, PSG Schools and PSG Manavar Illam, we learned that PSG Sarvajana Higher Secondary School was started in the year 1926 by the benevolent PSG & Sons’ Charities with a vision to provide education for all people. To further enhance the services of the school and the Trust, the then Managing Trustee G.R.Karthikeyan founded PSG Manavar Illam through which students who have lost a parent or both parents, are taken under the Illam from their VI Std. onwards, after passing certain eligibility-criteria. Nearly 100 students are present in the home and Rs.22 Lakhs has been spent on them to raise them on par with how other students are raised.

From that time, till their 12th Std. they are given free education, food, shelter, clothes and everything needed for their education and well-being.  After their schooling, the promising students are given free education in PSG CAS, PSG PolyTech and PSG Tech. Some of the industrious students after their graduation are even hired in PSG Institutions.

The magnanimity of the Trust is still carried forward effectively by the current Managing Trustee of PSG & Sons’ Charities, L.Gopalakrishnan.  Under his guidance, the Manavar Illam will further widen its residents’ head -count to 200. Renovation work is being done at present after which the Illam will have a new look with improved infrastructure and housing capabilities. The idea behind this expansion is to extend to the less-privileged people in society and empower them with education.

N.C.Nandagopalan, further said, “we always remind our students in PSG Manavar Illam that they who are now receiving education through the generosity of PSG should utilize the valuable opportunity to become respectable and employed, and return the favor to help the community. ”

He wished the students a happy journey.  The travelling students of  PSG Sarvajana Higher Secondary School are V.Ravindhar (7G), S.S.Harish Kumar (7D), V.Rathish (8A), M.Tamil Nithi (8D) , P.Benedick Samuvel (10G), M.Karthikeyan (10B)  and K. Saravana Kumar (12C).