History of GTM College

WELCOME TO Govt.Thirumagal Mills College, Gudiyattam

            The Govt Thirumagal Mills college,Gudiyatham was established with a munificent donation of Rs. 5 Lakhs from the trust named "Thirumagal Kalvi Selvam",in the year 1964-65.The generasity of Mr.Shanmuga Mudaliar who was the founder of "Thirumagal Mills" donated 47.26 acres of land for the college without expecting anything in return.The college was established with a pre-University course and now it has 6 UG courses and 2 PG courses apart from two certificate courses. 

            The inception of B.A (Economics) and B.sc(Maths) courses took place in 1965-66. The B.sc,(physics) and Botany courses came in to existence in 1969-70. The B.sc (chemistry) course was brought forth in 1980-81. The M.Sc Mathematics was introduced in the year 1982-83.In the beginning all these courses were affiliated to University of Madras.
                The MCA was started during the academic year 2004-2005 as a self supporting course.The B.Com course was introduced as a self supporting course in the year 2005-2006. Later on, both these courses were brought into a regular academic stream by the government of Tamil Nadu. In the beginning, the college functioned from the buildings of Rajagopal Polytechnic College whose founder Mr.Rajagopal Naidu and the founder of Thirumagal Mills Mr.Shanmuga Mudaliar kindly arranged for the facilities. Later on, the government of Tamil Nadu constructed a new building with nine class rooms in 1969. In 2010, another new building with 12 classrooms was built and it is providing classrooms for B.Com and BA Economics students.The construction of few more new buildings are in progress to meet the demand of increasing number of courses and students. The laboratories of Chemistry, Physics, Bio-technology, Computer Science and the language lab for English are well established.