Kerala CM opens Ahalia College of Engineering

Chief Minister Oomen Chandy has inaugurated Ahalia School of Engineering and Technology at Walayar near here in the month of July. Ahalia School of Engineering is one of the educational ventures from the multi-faceted conglomerate Ahalia International Foundation which holds business from Money Exchange to Health Services to Education.

Dubai-based Ahalia International foundation is now a name to be reckoned with in the Education and Health sector of Kerala. Ahalia International Foundation launched its academic, medical, social and industrial initiatives during 2003 in Kerala. This is another engineering college in the self-financing sector of Kerala. Now Kerala has around 120 self-financing engineering colleges.

Ahalia Colllege of Engineering lies in the same campus where Ahalia Health Heritage and Knowledge Village functions which are located at Kanal Pirivu, a non-descript village in Palakkad District bordering Coimbatore. It is in the sprawling campus of 2000 acres which is a mega health city beautifully designed with hospitals, schools, professional colleges, farms, gardens and rain water harvesting bodies. Ahalia Foundation is in the process of setting up more tertiary hospitals in the areas of Woman and Child care, and Cardiac care along with other projects such as engineering college, B-school, public school. A medical college is on the card and hopefully to be launched in the coming years.

Ahalia School of Engineering Technology (ASET) is an institution approved by AICTE and Government of Kerala and affiliated to the University of Calicut. Right now, the college offers B-Tech programmes in five streams viz. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering.

The inaugural ceremony was presided over M.B. Rajesh, MP. It was addressed by K. Achuthan, Shafi Parambil, K.V. Vijayadas and Vijayaraghavan, former MP.

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