The house was founded by Fr. Francis Schlooz, the Dutch missionary in the 1970s when he was the parish priest of Polur. To serve the much neglected predominantly agriculture dependent area through agro-based technical training for the hundreds of youths emerging from the many cluster of villages around, he bought the present lands of the Agro Tech. The original aim of the house was to impart professional training to boys who after completing schooling, had no other possibilities for higher education.