Swami Vivekananda Rural Community College

You can find us out in Keezhputhupattu, right across the road from the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. We are located along the East Coast Road in Villupuram. Since we are in a rural area, most of our students come from the small villages nearby. This college is more about teaching practical skills that people can actually use to get a job. We have different workshops and rooms set up for various types of vocational training. The campus has a good number of trees, which really helps when the sun gets hot out here near the coast. It can be a bit of a long trip for some of us to get to work, but it is a quiet and peaceful place once you are inside. We don’t have any big, fancy administration buildings; everything is kept very simple and spread out across the lot. You will often see students working with their hands on machines or practicing different trades in the open sheds. Occasionally, some goats from the nearby farms will wander up to the gates. We have a small office for all the paperwork and meetings that need to happen. It is an honest place where people come to learn a trade. The salt in the air from the nearby ocean sometimes makes the metal equipment rust, so we have to spend time on maintenance. It isn't a polished or shiny campus, just a community college doing its part for the local people in this rural district. We focus on the work at hand and get through the week.