Gandhigram Rural Institute - [GRI], Dindigul

Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI), Dindigul, Tamil Nadu was established in 1956 by two disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr G. Ramachandran and Dr T.S Soundaram Ramachandran. GRI is administered by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India and is funded through UGC, New Delhi. The institute got the status of Deemed University in 1976 by UGC. GRI got the five-star status by NAAC in 2002, Grade A during the re-accreditation in 2010 by NAAC and Grade A in its third cycle of reaccreditation in the year 2016. The institute has 8 Schools, 12 Departments and 16 Centres, 129 academic programs from Certificate Courses to Graduate programs to Postgraduate programs to Doctoral programs.