Type: College
9626663091The present College, affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), which is rated the best Agricultural University in the country by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), will offer undergraduate courses (B.Sc.) in Agriculture and related fields. It is also intended to be a centre of research and development in agriculture. The college received its first batch of sixty students on 8thSeptember 2014.
Delivering his inaugural address, Fr. Jayapalan described the college as a historic milestone in the annals of the Salesian Province of Chennai, which has always had as one of its main thrusts the empowering of rural youth, particularly the poor ones, through technical education. Today, while India ranks second in the world for farm output, and our agriculture and allied fields account for 50 per cent of the total workforce in the country, the sad fact is that a large percentage of our agricultural workers are unskilled in modern techniques resulting in low productivity. Agricultural training institutes are far below the requirement. This is where, we hope, the Don Bosco College of Agriculture will make a big difference, he said.
The college motto “Labor omnia vincit”, a Latin phrase meaning “hard work overcomes everything”, is from a poem by the Roman poet Virgil (29 BC), who composed it to support and promote Augustus Caesar’s “Back to the Land” campaign designed to encourage Romans to take up agriculture.
The College is a humble tribute to Don Bosco to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth, 1815-2015.
