The Sona Group is a premier business group in India. The origins of the group can be traced back to pre-Independence India. The Group was founded by Kalaithanthai Karumuttu Thiagaraja Chettiar, who was moved by the plight of tea garden workers in the country. He was drawn to the freedom movement and set out to empower his fellow countrymen to enhance India’s economic development. He aimed to achieve this lofty goal through education and industrial development resulting in the employment of Indians. Since its inception in the 1920s, The Sona Valliappa Group has pioneered India’s growth in the fields of agriculture, textiles, real estate, IT, education and research.

In the article titled 'TN Colleges, companies chip in to help ISRO with Moon landing', the Times of India correspondents attempt to draw the readers’ attention to the pivotal contribution of companies & institutions to this amazing achievement of ISRO, and in the process, highlighting the contribution of The Sona Group’s Sona College of Technology that designed the stepper motor from scratch, that ISRO used in LVM-3 for the successful Chandrayan Moon mission of the nation.

The article goes on to mention that the team that deserves credit, SonaSPEED, has collaborated with ISRO over a substantial period of time. The Head of SonaSPEED, N Kannan, who has worked for ISRO formerly, is well-versed with the protocol and standard of ISRO, and he expressed faith in his engineers & technicians for delivering what such advanced space projects need. The article further speaks of the equally significant contributions from other bodies.