Mr Kaverupanpatti Sennimalai Rangasamy (65)  popularly known as KSR, after dropping out from the primary school had to join a dairy farm, due to poverty. He noticed many of his rural friends could not get proper education due to various constraints.  He vowed to provide quality education to rural people and to generate employment opportunities.
 

Mr KSR after joining the dairy farm, wanted to become an entrepreneur.  With the support of his well wishers, he started a weaving unit with seven power looms.   He converted every single opportunity to come up in life to fulfill his dreams.  In 1984, he started the Polytechnic Institute in a rural place (see the picture of barren lands in 1980s)

Presently, he has converted the 300 acre barren lands into a world class human capital with 12 Educational Institutions, which provide education to more than 13000 students every year.  In the past twenty years, these institutions have given education to nearly two lakh students.  Besides, he has also set up Textile Units which provide employment opportunity to thousands of rural people. (see the picture of present buildings)

Mr K S R spends more than ten hours in the campus, visiting all the educational institutions.  In spite of all his achievements, he has not forgotten his past.  He maintains a cattle farm with around 150 cows in a traditional way (picture).  He says, "these cows add glory and honour to the campus"

 

In an exclusive interview with K. Srinivasan, Mr KSR reveals his 'secret of success'.  Please listen to the podcast.  The interview is in Tamil.  You can listen to the Tamil version and the translated English version also. He an be contacted at ksrsrini@gmail.com 

Translated English version 16 m 47 sec. (Please click 'play' button)

Please click here to download the audio file in mp3 format ( 15.3 mb)

If you want to listen to the original interview in Tamil 17 m 30 sec (Please click 'Play' button)

Please click here to download the audio in mp3 format (16 mb)