For the past three decades, the ELGi Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore has enabled hundreds of children from low-income families to realise their dreams. The school, established by the city-based compressor manufacturer ELGi Equipments in 1989, has been offering access to affordable quality education since then. The company’s founder-chairman L.G. Varadarajulu, whose initials its name bears, had a vision for sustainable human development, which set off a spark that has over the years grown into what the current managing director Dr Jairam Varadaraj calls “a mighty flame, illuminating the lives of hundreds of socially disadvantaged children and their families.” Living up to its vision of “giving back to society by developing good citizens through holistic quality education at subsidised cost,” the ELGi School has, over the years reached out to communities around Vellalore area in Coimbatore. It has been fulfilling educational needs by offering scholarships to deserving children from low-income backgrounds. Apart from the emphasis on education for the girl child, it also offers free-of-cost education to children living in orphanages.
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The school encourages students in various activities to find themselves