It is the ardent desire of His Holiness Srimad Andavan Swamigal, the Founder, to develop this institution into a Center Of Excellence in the field of Herbal Research by using the current developments in education and research in validating Herbal plants, their properties and the products since he is a veteran in Herbal Science and their medicinal values.

Our dream plan is to make Herbal Research accessible to every student of science and motivate each learner towards pursuing individual research projects. The Herbal Research and Consultancy and Training division is taking up innovative programmes and activities in co-ordination with the Life Science Departments towards achieving the same.

Our concerted efforts in validation and standardization of herbs, has given us an edge over others in academic and research oriented activities. The institution has also created a common research center pooling the infrastructure available in all the Life Science departments. The center is being used by all the students and faculty members pursuing their higher education to carry out their research activities.

Major Thrust Areas of Research

1. Development of natural products as drugs from natural resources
2. Standardization of herbal drugs that are developed by the college
3. Isolation and characterization of some secondary metabolites from natural sources
4. Validation of commercially available herbal drugs and formulations
5. Development of Agro techniques for herbal plants
6. Clinical Microbiology
7. Aquaculture Feed Formulations
8. Plant Tissue Culture Studies

At college level having recognized research guides is an asset and help the college to teaching and research organization. Our faculty members in four disciplines guide research scholars for doctorate degree.

S.NO	GUIDE NAME	DEPARTMENT	No. OF RESEARCH SCHOLARS (Ph.D)	PAPERS PUBLISHED	BOOKS PUBLISHED	AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
1	Dr.D.Sivasubramanian	Commerce	6	6	8	Human Resource management
2	Dr.S.Ramamurthy	English	12	12	6	English Fiction
3	Dr.P.Karikalan	Tamil	3	28	6	Sanga Ilakkiyam/Kaapiyam
4	Dr.S.Nagarajan	Sanskrit	2	6	2	Epics and Puranas

The Departments of Mathematics, Biochemistry &Microbiology has applied to the parent University for Recognition as Research Centers and will be enrolling students for PhD degree from the ensuing year. The Department of Physics focuses on research in the field of Ultrasonics and Crystallography.

The Department of Computer Science focuses in the field of databases (specific to Oracle) through various training programmes and software development with Oracle as the core.

The major thrust Areas of Research in Computer Science are Data Encryption in Networks, Data Compression in Networks and Bluetooth Wireless Technology.

Enriched extension activities & community services are integrated in the curriculum of Master of Social work programme. In addition to NSS, Exnora, Redcross, Rotaract wings of the college, we have embarked in an outreach programme Village Adoption since last seven years.

Village Adoption - An outreach Programme

The unique outreach programme of the college is village adoption programme through which students use their knowledge, skills and abilities to benefit the local village community in a village Panayapuram in the neighborhood of the college.

The College has completed two major research projects under the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, for the 1) "Promotion of Entrepreneurial development among SC/ST & Women through Cultivation, Value addition, Product development and Marketing through Self Help Group Approach" 2) . Under these schemes one Aloevera extractor and Filter unit at the cost of Rs.10.00 lakhs, one freeze drier at the cost of Rs.2.80 lakhs and one Plant Pulverizer at the cost of 0.15 lakh have been purchased by the institution.

The department of life science has created awareness among the rural community of the village on the cultivation of Aloe Vera, Patchouli, Vincarosea and Cissus Quadrangular is.

Villagers take a lot of interest in Aloe and cultivate aloe in their fields using bio farming methods and a demo unit of Vermi compost plant has also been installed. The villagers and SHG members were trained on the technology of extraction of Aloe juice and on the preparation of finished raw juice added with standard stabilizer and preservative. Juice extraction technology and the preparation of health drink are imparted to the villagers, so as to help them to enhance their income. Training was also given on knowhow and marketing techniques of this standardized and validated Herbal Health Drink.

The marketing strategies of the raw and finished aloe juice are developed and sustained by the cell and a marketing tie-up with Ramana Health Care, Tiruchirappalli and JC Herbals, Chennai is made feasible. The villagers and SHG members of the Pannayapuram village are the beneficiaries reaping the benefit out of marketing aloe juice to industries.

Consultancy Cell

Under the banner of this cell, Quarterly Farmers' Meet are organized to discuss the importance of cultivation of medicinal plants using modern farming techniques and commercialization of herbal raw materials. The cell members are also engaged in extending consultancy services to a land lord Mr.Nandhakumar for raising inter crops in his fields.

Triple I (III) Project - A Scool Adoption Programme

We have initiated another ambitious extension activity , in parallel, called "inclusion". Including children of neighboring schools to the arena of higher education. This novel project is named as Triple-I (INSPIRE, INCLUDE & INTEGRATE)

Under this "Triple-I" (Inspire, Include and Integrate) project the college has adopted three schools in the vicinity for a period of five years to reduce dropout rates & to foster interest in the students to pursue higher education and inculcate life values and health care.