History

Birth of the College

Pitty Theagaraya Chetty Senior and Sir Pitty Theagaraya Chetty Junior founded the North Madras Hindu Secondary School in 1897 to cater to the educational needs of the local population. For nearly 25 years, the school was nurtured under the munificence of the acclaimed philanthropists the PITTY BROTHERS.

After the demise of the Pitty brothers, the School was renamed as Theagaraya Chetty Hindu Secondary School.

In 1931, the Pitty Family, with the approval of High Court of Madras, rightly vested the management of the school into the broader hands of a Committee constituted for the purpose. The first Correspondent of the school was the coveted personality DEWAN BAHADUR PT. KUMARASWAMI CHETTY. Subsequently he was succeeded by his brother PT. CHENGALVARAYA CHETTY in 1942. The school flourished well and soared to greater heights in the web of education and by June 1947 the students strength fittingly rose to laudable figures of 1600 a no mean achievement in an environment otherwise engulfed with traders and artisans. The lofty ideals of the Noble souls started yielding fruitful results.

Fittingly the Management realized the need to raise the School into a College to provide higher education to the residents of North Madras a luxury offered at hand’s reach, which even the affluent could not easily dream of in those days.

The Hand of Prodigy prevailed on Sri P.Ramaswamy Chetty (grandson of senior PT) a talented and visionary scion of Pammy Family (a family closely Knitted to Pitty’s) serving as a Special Engineer in the Corporation of Madras. Spearheading himself as a member with the Managing committee, he worked relentlessly, almost single handed, despite his fragile health, towards the establishment of an institution of higher learning - a solatium for the weaker and underprivileged sections of the Society. The chronological growth achieved is worthy of illustration.

Arun from IIIrd BSc won 1st prize in Quiz Competition held at Loyola


Pandiyarajan from IIIrd BCA won 1st prize in Debugging Competition.


M.Arun won 1st prize in stress Interview.


Student from BSc Computer Science won 1st prize in Quiz Competition held at Pachayappa College.


Dr.A.Rajendran and his research Assistant Miss.M.Priyadarshini presented research articles in the 2nd National Conference.