Arignar Anna Government Arts College, Cheyyar, was started in the year
1967 to satisfy
the popular demand for a centre of higher education, to help the school-leaving
youngsters of Cheyyar and the neighboring taluks to pursue higher studies at low
cost, in consonance with the aim of free India ie. to disseminate Higher Education
to rural India. As the logo indicates “Arivudayar Ellam Udayar“ - Possession of
wisdom means of Possession of everything ; the college set its goal to spread knowledge
among the rural youth of the area to acquire Higher Education at low cost.
The college was established due to the strenuous efforts of the erstwhile North
Arcot District Collector Mr. P.M. Belliappa, I.A.S., Mr. P. Ramachandran former
MLA of Cheyyar and the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Mr.
Pulavar Govindan.
The College is located on a 69 acre land, two kilometer away from Cheyyar town.
This institution is affiliated to the Thiruvalluvar University and it is one of
the well known Government Colleges in Northern Tamil Nadu. In the beginning, the
college offered only Pre-University courses. In the second year of its inception,
the college was upgraded and four Degree courses viz. B.A. History, B.Sc.Mathematics,
Physics and Chemistry were offered.
In 1969 B.Com Degree course was started, followed in 1975
by the first P.G Course
M.Com. B.Sc. Zoology and B.A. Tamil Literature were started in the year 1979 and
1980 respectively. M.A. History was started in 1981 and B.A. Economics in
1982.
In 1993 three P.G. courses M.A English,M.A. Economics, M.Sc. Mathematics and B.Sc Computer
Science were started.
The college which started with 400 students and 18 teachers grew to have a student
strength of more than 3000 and nearly 100 teachers. Despite the fact that the college
is located in a rural area, it caters to the needs of all sections of people, specially
the poor and the down-trodden in and around Cheyyar.
From its humble beginnings, it has grown steadily, attained the status of a
Grade-I College. It now offers Ph.D. Programme (Part-time) in almost all disciplines.
The college was accredited by NAAC in the year 2001 with
THREE STARS and also re-accredited
as B+ in the year 2007 which is another jewel in its diadem. From the time of its
inception, Arignar Anna Government Arts College was affiliated to Madras University, and from the year 2002, the college stands affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore.
To enrich the knowledge of our rural students, Computer Science department was upgraded
with post graduate course in Information Technology in the year 2011. In
2012 five
P.G. courses and one Degree course were started: M.Sc (Computer Science), M.Sc(Zoology),
M.Sc(Chemistry), M.Sc(Physics), M.Sc(Botany) and M.A(Tamil) and B.C.A .Arignar Anna Government Arts College
is conducting M.Phil (FT/PT) and Ph.D(FT/PT) Programmes in all disciplines.