Conferment of Autonomous Status by UGC
The Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty's Hindu College was started in the year 1969 at Pattabiram, a semi - urban area of Chennai, to commemorate the birth centenary of our illustrious founder, Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty Garu whose services were praised by Dr.Annie Besant and Mahakavi Bharathiar. Our College is situated in the Chennai - Thiruvallur High Road at a distance of about 25 Kms from Chennai.The college has membership with other institutions like Andhra Chamber of Commerce, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, American Library, British Council Library, Madras University Library and ICSSR.
Sri M.V. Cunniah Chetty, B.Sc., B.Com., became the Secretary of the college on 6th June 1990. He introduced Evening College in the campus in the academic year 1995 - 1996. The Evening College is under self financing stream and it is absolutely service oriented. He was instrumental in introducing B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Com., B.B.A., B.Sc. Mathematics, B.C.A., B.Com. Corporate Secretaryship, B.Sc. Electronics and Communication Science courses. Sri M. Venkatesaperumal, B.A., F.C.A., took charge as the Secretary of the college with effect from 01-04-2001.He secured affiliation to B.Sc., (Information Systems Management), M.Com. Later B.Sc. Visual Communication, B.Com (Accounting and Finance) and Master of Social Work (M.S.W.), M.A. Economics, M.Phil. in Commerce,M.A. Tamil and B.A.Criminology and Police Administration were introduced subsequently.
In 1963 the idea of establishing a college was vigorously pursued by Sri. C. Ethiraj, the then Honorary Correspondent of all the educational institutions under the charities. He successfully realized this vision in 1969.
To improve the Quality of Education on par with the International Standards so as to enable our students to occupy high positions in the National and International Arena”
“Providing Quality and Value Based Education to the needy, downtrodden and first generation students of the society”.