Jeppiar, Founder of Sathyama University, Jeppiar Engineering College, Jeppiar Institute Of Technology and Jeppiar Trust – Passes Away on June 18th 2016
He started his career as a police constable but later entered politics and quickly earned the trust of former Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran. Jeppiaar, the founder-chancellor of Sathyabama University in Chennai, who set up one of the earliest self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, died