Rajagiri
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Rajagiri is the provincial headquarters of the Sacred Heart Province, Kochi
http://www.shprovince.org, and part of the catholic Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
http://www.cmi.in (CMI) congregation. It is located on a small hill in the outskirts of the rapidly expanding urban center of Kochi, in the southern India
n state of Kerala
. It was acquired after Indian independence
and developed by the Sacred Heart province.
The literal meaning of Raja Giri in the Malayalam language (the vernacular of the people in Kerala) is the Hill of the King, where the King refers to Christ the King.
Nowadays, Rajagiri is synonymous with Sacred Heart Province of the CMI congregation and its many social and educational institutions. Their educational missions to date is a vast network of 448 institutions: over 200 schools, 14 university affiliated colleges, 1 engineering college, 12 technical institutes, 1 university, 1 medical college, 3 teacher training colleges, 5 special schools, 18 non formal educational institutions and 17 cultural centres which are spread all over India
and a few located abroad.
Due to constraints in space for the expansion of its various initiatives at the Kalamaserry campus, Rajagiri has extended into a new 90 acres (364,217.4 m²) campus on the banks of the Chitrapuzha river. This location is now called Rajagiri Valley, and is where Rajagiri has begun establishing a national science, arts and technology university – Rajagiri Vidyapeetham. It has tied up with a leading Kochi based property developer - RDS Projects Limited http://www.rdsproject.com/, to develop a modern university township.
When the province was established, it had its headquarters in Aluva (which is presently the St. Antony's Monastery, Aluva). In 1959, it shifted to Rajagiri in Kalamassery. The Sacred Heart province was then onwards known as the Rajagiri province.
In 2008–09, the provincial synaxis of the Sacred Heart province decided to acknowledge the growing importance of Kochi in global scenario by emphasizing it as "Sacred Heart province, Kochi" or "Rajagiri Province, Kochi".
Its flagship institution, the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, was established in 1955 at Rajagiri in Kalamassery http://www.rajagiri.edu/php/showContent.php?linkid=16. The Rajagiri Higher Secondary School was founded in 1964 http://www.rajagirihss.org/main/School.asp. The continuous quality and balance of the school's curricular instruction and extracurricular activities has made it the most sought after school in the Ernakulam
district. Rajagiri has established its presence in the Middle-East through its collaboration in bringing up Rajagiri International School, Dubai http://www.risdubai.org/. Rajagiri province is now collaborating with Confident Group, a major Indian business conglomerate, in establishing a campus of the school at the Confident Canopus township in Bangalore
(The deal has been paused, for now) .
The Rajagiri Vidyapeetham (Vidyapeetham meaning 'seat of knowledge' in the Sanskrit
language and translates to "University" in English) was established in 2001 with the institution of 3 schools - Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET), Rajagiri School of Management (RSOM) and the Rajagiri International School for Education and Research (RISER) in its Rajagiri Valley campus. The undergraduate and post graduate programs at these are all currently affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University. The Rajagiri vidyappetham is envisaged as a wide network of institutions and centers providing quality education from the pre-primary level to doctoral recognition through specialised and super-specialised study, and seeking alternatives to the conventional mainstream efforts. As of late 2009, the institutions that come under the common umbrella of Rajagiri Vidyapeetham are:
The students from these institutions identify themselves as 'Rajagirians'.
In 2009, the Government of India's National Commission for Minorities granted the Rajagiri Vidyapeetham with Minority Institution status. This gives Rajagiri the privilege to exercise the special rights and safeguards provided to minorities by the Constitution of India. According to the 2001 Census of India, the population of Christians in India accounts for only 2.3% of its total population.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), through the Rajagiri Educational Charitable Trust (RECT) and Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, provides post graduate level courses and training to professionals in the industry and faculty in academia. The program features the facility to receive the degree of Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Embedded System Design or Information Systems Security of IGNOU by completing the full credit requirements on a part time basis.
This is in addition to the regular full time 2 year Masters degrees in VLSI & Embedded Systems and Computer Science & Information Systems.
The Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology houses India's most advanced laboratory in Process Control. Training and research is conducted with support from Kochi Refineries
Limited (KRL), Fertilizer And Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), Yokogawa Electric
, Honeywell
Automation & Control Solutions and National Instruments
.
and DataQuest's combined rankings of over 400 government and private technology schools in India.
RSET has been ranked first in the state of Kerala by the REC Calicut Alumni Association (RECCA) in the category of self financing colleges. http://reccaanit.org/erating/self_financing.html
RSET placed in the first position in the survey conducted by NITCAA among the Self-financing Private Engineering Colleges in Kerala in 2010
Sacred Heart College, Thevara
RECT - IGNOU
Rajagiri College of Management & Applied Sciences
Rajagiri Australia
Renewable Energy Centre MITHRADHAM
Kochi
-Places:* Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala, India, formerly known as Cochin* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India** Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi, Kerala, India...
http://www.shprovince.org, and part of the catholic Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
The Carmelites of Mary Immaculate is an religious order for men in the Syro-Malabar Church. It is the first Catholic religious congregation founded in India. The first monastery of the order was established on 11 May 1831 at Mannanam, Kerala, India...
http://www.cmi.in (CMI) congregation. It is located on a small hill in the outskirts of the rapidly expanding urban center of Kochi, in the southern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
. It was acquired after Indian independence
Indian independence movement
The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
and developed by the Sacred Heart province.
The literal meaning of Raja Giri in the Malayalam language (the vernacular of the people in Kerala) is the Hill of the King, where the King refers to Christ the King.
Nowadays, Rajagiri is synonymous with Sacred Heart Province of the CMI congregation and its many social and educational institutions. Their educational missions to date is a vast network of 448 institutions: over 200 schools, 14 university affiliated colleges, 1 engineering college, 12 technical institutes, 1 university, 1 medical college, 3 teacher training colleges, 5 special schools, 18 non formal educational institutions and 17 cultural centres which are spread all over India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and a few located abroad.
Due to constraints in space for the expansion of its various initiatives at the Kalamaserry campus, Rajagiri has extended into a new 90 acres (364,217.4 m²) campus on the banks of the Chitrapuzha river. This location is now called Rajagiri Valley, and is where Rajagiri has begun establishing a national science, arts and technology university – Rajagiri Vidyapeetham. It has tied up with a leading Kochi based property developer - RDS Projects Limited http://www.rdsproject.com/, to develop a modern university township.
History
When the CMI congregation was divided into three provinces in 1953, the central region of Kerala, more or less coextensive with the territory of the then archdiocese of Ernakulam which exists today as the Ernakulam - Angamaly Archdioces http://www.ernakulamarchdiocese.org/ and the Kothamangalam Diocese http://www.kothamangalamdiocese.org/), was constituted into Sacred Heart Province.When the province was established, it had its headquarters in Aluva (which is presently the St. Antony's Monastery, Aluva). In 1959, it shifted to Rajagiri in Kalamassery. The Sacred Heart province was then onwards known as the Rajagiri province.
In 2008–09, the provincial synaxis of the Sacred Heart province decided to acknowledge the growing importance of Kochi in global scenario by emphasizing it as "Sacred Heart province, Kochi" or "Rajagiri Province, Kochi".
Activities
The successes of modern education in India, during and after the British colonial era, can in many cases be traced to the initiatives of various Christian missionaries. After the Rajagiri Province was instituted, the new province devoted its resources to establishing schools and colleges in its province. Its educational establishments imparted unbiased quality education to children from all social and economic backgrounds, which lacked in the government run schools and colleges. The Rajagiri provincial initiated many social welfare and development programs for the province, and these were first based from their establishments for higher learning. These activities were later organized and managed by separately formed organizations.Its flagship institution, the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, was established in 1955 at Rajagiri in Kalamassery http://www.rajagiri.edu/php/showContent.php?linkid=16. The Rajagiri Higher Secondary School was founded in 1964 http://www.rajagirihss.org/main/School.asp. The continuous quality and balance of the school's curricular instruction and extracurricular activities has made it the most sought after school in the Ernakulam
Ernakulam
Ernakulam refers to the downtown area or the western part of the mainland of Kochi city in Kerala, India. The city is the most urban part of Kochi and has lent its name to the Ernakulam district. Ernakulam is called the commercial capital of the state of Kerala and is a main nerve of business in...
district. Rajagiri has established its presence in the Middle-East through its collaboration in bringing up Rajagiri International School, Dubai http://www.risdubai.org/. Rajagiri province is now collaborating with Confident Group, a major Indian business conglomerate, in establishing a campus of the school at the Confident Canopus township in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
(The deal has been paused, for now) .
Rajagiri Vidyapeetham
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
language and translates to "University" in English) was established in 2001 with the institution of 3 schools - Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET), Rajagiri School of Management (RSOM) and the Rajagiri International School for Education and Research (RISER) in its Rajagiri Valley campus. The undergraduate and post graduate programs at these are all currently affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University. The Rajagiri vidyappetham is envisaged as a wide network of institutions and centers providing quality education from the pre-primary level to doctoral recognition through specialised and super-specialised study, and seeking alternatives to the conventional mainstream efforts. As of late 2009, the institutions that come under the common umbrella of Rajagiri Vidyapeetham are:
- Rajagiri School of Social Sciences http://www.rajagiri.edu
- Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology http://www.rajagiritech.ac.in
- Rajagiri School of Computer Science
- Rajagiri School of Library and Information Sciences
- Rajagiri School of Management http://www.rajagiri.edu/php/showContent.php?linkid=21
- Rajagiri Business School
- Rajagiri International School of Education and Research http://www.rajagiritech.ac.in/riser/riser.asp
- Rajagiri College of Management and Applied Sciences http://www.rajagiricollege.edu.in/
- Rajagiri High School http://www.rajagirihss.org
- Rajagiri Public School & Kindergarten[www.rajagiri.ac.in]
- Rajagiri Christu Jayanthi Public School http://www.indiastudychannel.com/schools/1227-CHRISTU-JAYANTHI-PUBLIC-SCHOOL.aspx
- Viswajyothi Public School http://www.viswajyothi.org
- Amala Public School http://www.amalapublicschool.com
- Mithradam Renewable Energy Centre http://www.mithradham.org
The students from these institutions identify themselves as 'Rajagirians'.
In 2009, the Government of India's National Commission for Minorities granted the Rajagiri Vidyapeetham with Minority Institution status. This gives Rajagiri the privilege to exercise the special rights and safeguards provided to minorities by the Constitution of India. According to the 2001 Census of India, the population of Christians in India accounts for only 2.3% of its total population.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), through the Rajagiri Educational Charitable Trust (RECT) and Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, provides post graduate level courses and training to professionals in the industry and faculty in academia. The program features the facility to receive the degree of Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Embedded System Design or Information Systems Security of IGNOU by completing the full credit requirements on a part time basis.
This is in addition to the regular full time 2 year Masters degrees in VLSI & Embedded Systems and Computer Science & Information Systems.
The Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology houses India's most advanced laboratory in Process Control. Training and research is conducted with support from Kochi Refineries
Kochi Refineries
The Kochi Refineries Ltd is an oil refinery in the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. It is located in the Ambalamugal industrial district of Kochi. It has a production capacity of 7.5 million tons per annum as of Dec 1994...
Limited (KRL), Fertilizer And Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), Yokogawa Electric
Yokogawa Electric
is a Japanese electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its technologies in measurement, control, and information. It has a workforce of over 19,000 in its 80 companies worldwide, operating in 33 countries....
, Honeywell
Honeywell
Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
Automation & Control Solutions and National Instruments
National Instruments
National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...
.
Rajagiri International School of Education and Research
From its inception, Rajagiri International School of Education and Research (RISER) has forged collaborative initiatives in research and especially education with the State University of New York, Western Michigan University, Gannon University in the United States, James Cook University in Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australian Catholic University, Assumption University in Thailand and the University of Wales. Besides regular faculty exchange programs, conclaves, and conducting international bilateral programmes, these universities recognize the course credits earned at RSET, RSOM or RISER towards earning a bachelors degree in engineering at their respective universities. In order to facilitate RISER operations in Australia, an entity - Rajagiri Australia has been initiated in 2008.Ranking of RSET and RSOM
Beginning with the first batch of undergraduates and postgraduate students, RSET and RSOM have both recorded high industry placement. Both institutes beginning from 2006, have figured in the national rankings despite being established only recently. The RSOM is consistently ranked in the top 25 of Indian business schools, while RSET has been among the top 50 in including NASSCOMNASSCOM
The National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....
and DataQuest's combined rankings of over 400 government and private technology schools in India.
RSET has been ranked first in the state of Kerala by the REC Calicut Alumni Association (RECCA) in the category of self financing colleges. http://reccaanit.org/erating/self_financing.html
RSET placed in the first position in the survey conducted by NITCAA among the Self-financing Private Engineering Colleges in Kerala in 2010
See also
Rajagiri School of Engineering & TechnologySacred Heart College, Thevara
Sacred Heart College, Thevara
Sacred Heart College is an Arts and Science College in Kerala, India run by the Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate which is a Syrian Catholic Christian religious institute for men.-History:...
RECT - IGNOU
Rajagiri College of Management & Applied Sciences
Rajagiri Australia
Renewable Energy Centre MITHRADHAM