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Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology (ACGCET Karaikudi) is an autonomous (with effect from 2009) college in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India, Dr.RM.Alagappa Chettiar, a man of rare wisdom, and forethought, founded Alagappa Chettiar Educational Trust with the sole aim of developing the backward area of Karaikudi into a centre for higher education. On the occasion of laying of the foundation stone of the Central Electro Chemical Research Institute by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 25th July 1948, Dr. Alagappa Chettiar in his welcome address said that it was his dream to start an Engineering College immediately.