Schools and Colleges
There are a number of schools and colleges, including engineering colleges. Government Victoria College (3) was founded in 1866 and has many eminent persons as its former students. They include E. M. S. Namboodiripad, (the first Chief Minister of Kerala and Communist Party leader), T. N. Seshan, former Chief Election Commissioner, E. Sreedharan, the architect of Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro, writers like O. V. Vijayan and M. T. Vasudevan Nair and cartoonist Ravi Shankar.
The NSS College of Engineering (4) is an institution founded in 1960 by the Nair Service Society. The undergraduate admission into this engineering college is based on merit ranking in the Kerala engineering entrance exam. A sizeable number of seats are also reserved for students belonging to socially deprived castes and religious minorities, such as Muslims. The major engineering departments are Civil, Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation & Control and Computer science Engineering.
The Chembai Memorial Music College, Government College Chittur, and NSS Colleges at Ottapalam and Nemmara are some of the older colleges in Palakkad.MES College Mannarghat, Run by Muslim Educational Society,Jamia Hasaniyya Islamiyya, Kallekkad, Islamic Central School Ottapalam, Katampazhipuram High School Royal dental college chalissery, Karuna Medical College Chittur, Arabic College Parli.
The Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram is a technical education institute established in 1999 in the Palakkad district of Kerala. The college is fully owned by the Government of Kerala and is governed by the Directorate of Technical Education, Kerala.The institute has three engineering departments:Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology. The college also offers Post Graduation Courses in Computational Linguistics.
Some of the notable and older schools of the districts include, Government Moyan Model Girls Higher Secondary School, Pandit Motilal Nehru Government (PMG) School, Basel Evangelical Mission Higher Secondary School (Mission School), Kanikkamatha Convent English Medium Higher Secondary School, Bharatha Matha Higher Secondary School, Vyasa Vidhya Peethom Central School.
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