Upholding a Century of Educational & Entrepreneurial Legacy, The Sona Group Completes 100 Years

Marking a century of socio-economic development and entrepreneurial legacy, The Sona Group completes 100 years. Driving entrepreneurial and educational advancements across the nation, the Group has emerged as India’s premier business group with a line of established, world-class educational institutes and group of companies. While the educational institutes and skill development centers empower the nation’s youth with job-specific skill sets, the group of companies use these educational institutes as the fertile ground for hiring top talents and providing technology-enabled professional services.

The efforts of The Sona Group towards empowering the underprivileged and driving the socio-economic development of our society began during the pre-independence era. Kalaithanthai Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar focused on increasing the employability and entrepreneurship among the youth through training and higher education. This resulted in the backward integration of the nation’s socio-economic development, where The Sona Group of Institutions prepare the youth to take up new opportunities, while creating new ones. He began by revolutionizing the textile industry and hence was known as the ‘Textile King’.