Freedom fighter Sardar Vedarathinam Pillai started Kasthurba Gandhi Kanya Gurukulam at Vedaranyam in 1946. The first women’s residential school in the Cauvery delta region started with only one student; it now serves nearly 2,000 girls, offering regular academic courses and skill-based programmes that help poor students from rural areas
Freedom fighter Sardar Vedarathinam Pillai started Kasthurba Gandhi Kanya Gurukulam at Vedaranyam in 1946. The first women’s residential school in the Cauvery delta region started with only one student; it now serves nearly 2,000 girls, offering regular academic courses and skill-based programmes that help poor students from rural areas