Mahendra Educational Trust (MET) was established in the year 1978 at Kalippatti by Shri.M.G.Bharath Kumar, a renowned educationist with the noble mission of imparting quality education to rural community. Tmt.Valliyammal Bharath Kumar, a Tamil Nadu Government Best Teacher Awardee, is the Secretary of the Trust. Er.Ba.Mahendhiran and Er. Maha Ajay Prasath, are the Managing Directors. The Trust lays stress on providing quality education and maintaining high degree of discipline. In order to meet the demands of the people of Namakkal and Salem districts, the Trust has broadened its educational services and started Schools and Colleges. The MET recognizes the importance of Research & Development activities and in order to give more importance to research activities, Mahendra Research Foundation (MRF) was established.
The vision of MRF is to grow into a unique centre for advanced research activities. In order to materialize the vision, it started various centers for excellence. The staffs were encouraged to attend national and international research conferences to gain research acumen. They were also motivated to publish as many as scientific research publications in reputed peer reviewed journals. Also they were initiated to present their innovative projects to various funding agencies for grants. On the part of the students; a complete awareness about the latest trend in the field of scientific research was given through seminars by eminent scholars.
After the inception of MET, MRF started its scientific research activities in various fields of academic and commercial interest, it has submitted research proposals for funding to various funding agencies, as a result, we were invited to participate in several programs within India and also abroad to obtain up to date research information and to develop innovative research methodologies in relevant fields of Science and Technology.