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experience for the debaters from our
college.This edition of the tournament
was held between the 22nd of
September 2018 to the 24th of
September 2018. The tournament
which saw Shri. N. Raghuveera Reddy,
the current President of the Andhra
Pradesh Congress Committee
inaugurate the event, had a total of four
rounds followed by the Semifinals and
the Finals.
• The REC contingent consisted of 13
students from the 2nd and 3rd years
respectively.

• The performance of the students at the
• This was the first tournament that the tournament was remarkable which saw
members participated in that corresponds Nischay Vegi and Vaishali Raja, the
to the present core tenure. VITness President and Vice President of the REC
Parliamentary Debate was held in VIT Debating Union from our college win
Chennai from the 30th of August 2018 to the tournament. This was the first time
the 1st of September 2018. Attended by that our college had won a debating
prestigious institutes all over the country, tournament ever.
VITness PD is a tournament that receives • Of the five teams, three teams broke in
love, respect and enthusiastic
with two making it to the finals and one
participation and is highly revered.
of them winning it. It marked a brilliant
• The REC Debating Union have always had achievement for the Debating Union
a great rapport with this tournament. which has firmly put us on the national
VITness PD has always proven to be a great map.



 NALSAR IV PD 2018.NALSAR IV PD 2018.
NALSAR IV PD 2018.NALSAR IV PD 2018.
• The REC contingent consisted of
10 students from the 2nd and 3rd
years respectively.
• The performance of the students
at the tournament was
remarkable with one team as
second reserve breaking into
octo-finals.
• The overall performance of the
contingent was a good one with
most of our debating teams
being within the top 40.
• NALSAR IV is the annual British • Overall the tournament was a
Parliamentary Debate Tournament held good run for our contingent and
by the NALSAR Law, every year in their the members of the Debating
campus in Hyderabad. This is the first Union gained valuable
outside city tournament REC DU takes its experience. As usual, The REC
members. NALSAR IV has always proven DU never failed to make its mark
to be a great experience for the debaters this time as well.
from our college.






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 MSRMPD 2018MSRMPD 2018
MSRMPD 2018MSRMPD 2018
• Having been last tournament for the year 2018, MS Ramaiah Memorial Parliamentary Debate
is the annual British Parliamentary Debate Tournament held by the MS Ramaiah Institute of
Technology every year in their campus in Bangalore, and was held between the 22nd of
September 2018 to the 24th of September 2018.
• The REC contingent consisted of 16 students from the 2nd and 3rd years respectively. The
students took the train from Chennai, the night of 21st September to reach Bangalore and
returned back to the city on the morning of the 25th after the tournament.
• The performance of the students at the tournament was remarkable with one adjudicator
breaking into semi-finals. Neil Joy Janfy, 3rd-year Automobile was the first ever adjudicator
from the REC Debating Union to ever break in at MSRMPD.
• The overall performance of the contingent was a good one with most of our debating teams
being within the top 30.
• The whole experience was one to remember and was a blessing for all the budding debaters
who were looking to up their ante in the field of debating.

FIRST YEARS INITIATION 2019FIRST YEARS INITIATION 2019
 FIRST YEARS INITIATION 2019FIRST YEARS INITIATION 2019
• With the end of a year filled with meets and tournaments came new year, bringing along with
it a fresh new batch of debaters. The initiation day for the first years of the 2018-2022 batch
took place on the 29th of January 2019 and was held to commemorate the successful
induction of first years into the Debating Union. It was held at the Main Seminar Hall from
3pm.
• The Initiation day started with the president of REC Debating union, Nischay Vegi explaining
what Debating Union expects from its members and what the members can expect from the
Debating Union. He also spoke about the formats that are predominantly followed in the
debating circuits in India. Next, the Vice President Vaishali R gave a very brief introduction
about the format of British Parliamentary debate. She was assisted by the Event Manager,
Vaibavi J, who explained the nuances in the popular format. Next the crowd was addressed by
the Secretary of the REC Debating Union Arvind Vignesh, who gave a very brief idea about
another important part in the art of debating: Adjudication. In the end, the members of the
DU were briefed about the rules and regulations of the club that they will be expected to
follow.
• After the briefing was over, the crowd were given a motion to test their ability of
understanding and it was received with great enthusiasm.

After this, the whole core and the members of the club geared up for the bringing about of at
of Words. Marking the end of a successful tenure was WoW 2019, held on the 11th of
February, with great pomp and galore. All in all, it was an amazing year for the REC Debating
Union, and the legacy is waiting to be carried forward by the next batch.


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Ethics Club of REC was started in the year 2012 under the direct instructions of out beloved
Chairperson Dr. Mrs. Thangam Meganathan. The idea behind the formation of the club was to
educate the students the importance of Ethics in the real world. As an engineer and a future holder
Ethics plays an inevitable part in everybodys life. In support of this mission, it was planned to conduct
frequent lecture programs with lectures given by internal as well as external speakers.

In the year 2018 – 2019 many such programs were conducted. On the eleventh of January 2018 a
lecture under the title “The Science of Perfection”, that contained the extracts of the Patanjali Yoga
Sutras that dealt with the prerequisite qualities required for a student to be successful both in the
mind and the body level. On 07.11.2018, a lecture under the topic Special Lecture
on Ethics and Hardwork was deliveredby our advisor Dr. C.R. Muthukrishnan. The lecture started by
defining the meaning of Ethics based on Thirikural and went deeper in the topic by giving a lot of
quotations from Mahabaratha and Ramayana. On 28.08.2018 a talk on the topic ‘Essentials for Success
in Life’was delivered by an invited speaker, Er. R. Natarajan, Director, Engineering Global Solutions,
Chennai. Mr. Natarajan shared a lot of his personal experiences in achieving success and in a way that
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On the 16th of October 2018, a Navarathri day
a lecture was organized pertaining to the
women in our ancient scriptures and their
contributions to the growth of the country
both spiritual and materialistic. Following the
lecture on the same day, there was a special
performance by “UNISON” our college music
band. On the eleventh of November 2018 a
talk under the title “The importance
Truthfullness” was delivered in the seminar
hall. With a lot more programs to come in the
future years we thank all the students, staff and
the management of Rajalakshmi Engineering
College in extending their support to conduct
the above mentioned programs successfully.




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ATIONAL ATIONAL SSPORTS PORTS OORGANISATIONRGANISATION

National Sports Organization students participated in energy conservation rally at Besant nagar and
we have organized mini marathon race at our college campus.
























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KRUTHANGYAKRUTHANGYA
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KRUTHANGYARUTHANGYA
"Whenever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher".
Teachers can change lives just with the right mix of chalk and challenges. On the auspicious
occasionof ‘’Teachers Day”, We the Rotaract Club of Rajalakshmi Engineering College sponsored by
Rotary Club Of Chennai K. K Nagar, devised a project "KRUNTHANGYA". We presented nearly 700
plant saplings to our college educators to show our gratefulness towards them.











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UYIR THULI UYIR THULI
" A Single Pint can save three lives, a Single Gesture can create a Million Smile. "
We the Rotaract Club of Rajalakshmi Engineering College hosted "UYIR THULI"- a blood donation
camp to aid the people in need. The presence of Chandrasekaran sir - General Manager of Indian
bank (padi branch ) and Fathima mam added a vigor to our event. Our special thanks to Indian bank
who supported us for our signature project. We are proud and privileged to inform you that we have
collected a record breaking amount of 651 units of blood in just 5 hours.



















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PAGIRDHUNUPAGIRDHUNU

"You waste life when you waste food".

The entire world is hard on the wheels of food. There are two groups of society, one who loves to have
food and the other who wishes to have food.

We the Rotaract Club Of Rajalakshmi Engineering College sponsored by Rotary Club Of Chennai K. K.
Nagar implemented பகி ( D on World Food Day. We deliberately shared our food to the
people in need, around us in different locality.

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EEVATHUVILAKKELEVATHUVILAKKEL

"The more we genuinely care about others the
greater our own happiness and peace. "

We the Rotaract Club of Rajalakshmi Engineering
College sponsored by Rotary Club Of Chennai K.
K. Nagar went on a journey to help the needy
people on the auspicious day of January 1, 2019.
In this journey we found people to whom we gave
food and clothing.






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“Giving is not just about making a donation.
It's about making a difference".

We the Rotaract Club of Rajalakshmi
Engineering College sponsored by Rotary
Club of Chennai K. K. Nagar conducted "UYIR
THULI- PHASE II" - a blood donation camp to
succour people in need. We share the
immense happiness with the Indian Bank
(Padi Branch) in making this event a
successful one. We take the monumental
privilege in informing you that we have
collected 390 units of blood.












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NATIONAL SERVICE SCHATIONAL SERVICE SCHEMEEME
NATIONAL SERVICE SCHNATIONAL SERVICE SCHEMEEME
Uzhavarapani in Kanchipuram Pavala Vanna Perumal temple tank on 19.8.18. 200 NSS Volunteers
participated

Our college 200 nss volunteers participated in Temple tank cleaning activity at pavalvannaperumal
temple near kanchipuram on 19.08.2018, they cleaned the tank in 8 hours with the help of the village
people and Annamalai arapanikuzhu successfully and the same is published in swatchbarath website
of Indian government.

Tree plantation event on 30.09.2018 at
Mahindra world city Maraimalainagar (250
NSS Volunteers participated)

On 30.09.2018 250 NSS volunteers
participated in an mega tree plantation
program at Mahindra world
citymaraimalainagar organized by EZON – an
NGO, around 350 samplings where been
planted, our college is the participated in
maximum number.




First Aid training by AlERT Team on
11.09.2018 and 12.09.2018, 400 NSS
Volunteers participated.

As a part of Personality development activity,
for 400 NSS volunteers ALERT team and NGO
conducted basic first aid training program on
11.09.2018 and 12.09.2018 from 3.00 pm to
5.00 p.m

















Temple cleaning activity on 21-09-2018 atMaharal village Cheyyar,50 NSS volunteers participated.


50 NSS volunteers participated in swatchbarath activity on 21-09-2018 at Maharal village cheyyar,
cleaned the delipid temple, remove the shrubs and exovated the temple idols from the surrounding
place.






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100 NSS volunteers participated in Energy Conservation rally conducted on 14.12.2018 at
besentnagar beach, event organized by Tamilnadu electricity board.

50 NSS volunteers participated in prime minister talk on Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0 live program on
29.01.2019

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Traffic Awareness Program on 23 September 2018 (Sunday) - No. of Participants : 103

The Youth Red Cross of Rajalakshmi Engineering College joined hands with the Care & Welfare
organization and conducted the Traffic Awareness Program at two important signals in Chennai
namely T-nagar signal and Thirumangalam signal. The students were assembled at Hotel Sudhara at
around 3:30 pm. The volunteers from the Care and Welfare gave us instructions as how to help the
pedestrains to cross the road.

Our students were seen holding placards depicting slogans like “WEAR HELMETS”, “DON’T DRINK
AND DRIVE”, “ WEAR SEAT BELTS” etc. In order to avoid accidents caused by the intensity of High
beam , few boys stuck black stickers on the headlights of vehicles. Students personally approached
each person driving 2-wheeler and advised them, to wear helmets and not to cross the white line. The
Traffic Awareness program concluded at 6pm and was much appreciated by the public and TRAFFIC
Policemen. The students were later asked to assemble at NatesanPark,where refreshments were
served.
























Mega Beach Cleaning of Marina Beach on 30-09-2018
No.of participants : 47

The Youth Red Cross of Rajalakshmi Engineering College joined hands with the Care & Welfare
organization for the Mega Beach Cleanup event from 5:30 to 8:30am . The students were asked to
assemble at the Kannagi’s statue. Later they were divided into groups to clean the beach at different
spots. They were instructed to pick up the litters and put it in the garbage bag. The students tirelessly
worked in the early hours of Sunday. The litters were segregated into degradable and non-degradable
wastes.

Tree Plantation Event at Mahindra City,Chengalpet on 30-09-2018.
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The motive of the Tree plantation Event organised by Mahindra City and Hero Motocorp is to create
urban forests all over the cities.As an initiative,we students of various institutions and various clubs
gathered and helped them for this event.

The importance of trees was explained by the Cheif Guests. Students actively planted alot of saplings
and gave birth to a thousands of trees." Time spent amongst trees is never time wasted. "

















“DHAN UTSAV” at Valsarvakkam,Porur,Madurvoyal on 24 NOVEMBER 2018
No .of Participants: 15

The Youth Red Cross of Rajalakshmi Engineering College joined hands with Care & Welfare
organization. The program began with pledge and national anthem to serve lunch for the Municipal
workers, cultural events like dance, drama was performed by the girls. After the program concluded,
medals were awarded to all the workers as a token of appreciation. All the workers expressed their
thanks after an hearty lunch.

Orphanage Visit at AnnaikumKarangal, Nanganallur on 6/01/2019
No. of participants : 52

“Not All of us can do Great things, but we can do small things with great love”
The Youth Red Cross of Rajalakshmi Engineering College, conducted an orphanage visit to
AnnaikumKarangal orphanage to oraganisePongalCeleberations with the children. Various games
were organized like lemon in the spoon. Kids enjoyed blowing balloons. Chocolates, Notebooks and
pens were distributed to all the kids. Few students helped the caretakers to serve lunch. Our staff
coordinator Mr.D.Joel along with few students, counseled the children there about different career
opportunities. It was a lovely sight to see the kids have fun.

















Disaster Management Training Program on 30/01/2019

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge, so many lives wouldn't
have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness”
Keeping this in mind, The Youth Red Cross Club of Rajalakshmi Engineering College conducted
“Disaster Management Training Program” for the students in their 1st year. The program began with


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our college prayer song followed by the welcome address. Our respected chief guest
Thiru.RamaManikam delivered a speech on how we should prepare and safe guard ourselves from any
natural or manmade disasters .

With the help of an PowerPoint presentation, he
briefed about the different kinds of disasters,
their causes and effects .The program was made
interesting with videos that the students
enjoyed watching and they also found it
informative. Towards the end of the program
Mr.MohanaVenkatesan,District
Coordinator,YRC-Kanchipuram, along with the
students performed demonstrations on how one
should save oneself and others from fire
accidents.

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A health camp was conducted at the Rajalakshmi Engineering College campus on 22/03/2018, with
more than 400 students participating. The students were given lectures on health issues and gym.
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KERALA FLOOD RELIEFERALA FLOOD RELIEF
Funds and relief materials were collected from the students and were sent to Kerala through an
NGO which greatly helped the people suffering there due to flood.
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I am not from Madras, “I am Madras”. by conducting various events like doodle art,meme
creation,quotes writing and short film.We had 30 plus participants for each event, making it a grand
success.










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Under the swacch bharath vertical an event
called e-waste collection was conducted at rec
where boxes were kept in each department and
electronic wastes were collected from the

departments. The event was dated
24/08/2018.





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PARRYS CORNER CLEANUPARRYS CORNER CLEANUP
Under the swacch bharath vertical a cleanup drive was set up at parry’s which involved more
than 150+ volunteers cleaning up the streets of parry’s. The event took place on the 1s tof
October.










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FACTORY VISITFACTORY VISIT
A factory visit was conducted for the YOUNG INDIANS MEMBERS to the company schwing
steter which is a mechanical based company and it indeed was helpful for the students to know
about the pumps and working as they had a hands on experience. The factory visit was dated
12/10/2018.












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REXONA EVENTREXONA EVENT
Under the entrepreneurship and innovation vertical an event was conducted by rexona to
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students were given free merchandise and products from the company. The event was dated
25/10/2018.














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DIWALI CELEBRATIONDIWALI CELEBRATION
Team YIREC spent Diwali 2k18 in the most valuable manner by celebrating it in an orphanage.
The children of the megha foundation SARANALAYA HOME were filed with tears joy when we
left the home. It was indeed a blessing in disguise for both the children and the volunteers. The
event was dated 03/11/2018.

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ROAD SAFETY WEEKOAD SAFETY WEEK
Under the road safety vertical an event named SUPER KIDCOP was conducted at various schools in
Chennai. Schools like CHURCHPARK, GOODSHEPHERD, CHINMAYAVIDYALAYA were covered and
the children were taught about road safety. The event was dated 09/01/2019and11/01/2019.










NATIONAL CAMPNATIONAL CAMP
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NATIONAL CAMPATIONAL CAMP
A National camp was conducted at JAIPUR which was attended by the chairperson and faculty
coordinator of young Indians REC dated 18/01/2019 to 20/01/2019








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Installation of Council Chairperson and
council office bearers for the year 2018 –
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This event is an awareness program about tree planatation for school students on world service
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This event is about reading action program where importance of reading were discussed by
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This event is about donation of books and stationary items to the students of SEED primary
school, Sriperumbudur.
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REC Photography Club was initiated to create a platform for the students who have passion for
photography. The club was started in September, 2017. At REC Photography Club everyone can share
their ideas, techniques and learn from fellow student photographers.

We conduct various activities for the students to help them to learn the nuances of photography
and to become a better photographer.

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Aperture Knowledge Series on “Capturing Everyday Life” was conducted on 2-2-18 by
Mr.MouhamedMoustafa, a Renowned Street Photographer based in Pondichery. He showcased
his photographyworks to the students. The goal of the program was to understand the essentials
of street photography, approaching strangers and photography composition.

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Mr.DineshK.Babu, Cinematographer of “8 Thotakkal” a tamil feature film was the guest for the
spotlight event conducted on 16-2-18. He shared experience as a cinematographer and the
traits needed to shine in the film industry. Students participated enthusiastically in the
discussion and got insightson lighting techniques, posture, camera angles.

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Photography Cluboffice bearers installation ceremony was conducted on1-8-18.
Mr.MunishPalaniappan, Wildlife and Motorsport Photographer was the chief guest. He shared
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The club members had a chance to meet and interact with Mr.Srivatsan, Travel Photographer
and Blogger based in Chennai on 1-10-18. The discussion session focused on how to explore and
experience a location during travel by blending into the indigenous culture, heritage and
lifestyles. He also shared his experience as a blogger and how to use the technology to reach
more people and to monetize the photography works.

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PHOTO WALKSHOTO WALKS
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. To practice the photography techniques
the students has learned, we conduct photo walks. We will go to a location, explore the place
and take photographs. 20 photo walks were conducted at various locations in Chennai during
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Mrs. Srekala Bharath Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya, Mrs. Srekala Bharath Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya,
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Renowned DancerRenowned Dancer Professor, IIT MadrasProfessor, IIT Madras
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Mrs. Chitra Sivakumar Dr. S. SumathiMrs. Chitra Sivakumar Dr. S. Sumathi
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• 79 students of UG programmes and 6 students of PG programmes of 2018 batch have secured
Anna University Ranks including one Gold Medal.

• Departments have secured a total project funding of Rs.50,43,980/- from external funding
agencies: (i) for projects on “Simple Screening Aid for Estimating Kidney Function” -
Department of Science and Technology, (ii) "Stress resistance and characterization of
exopolysaccharides secreted by oral bacterial biofilm communities: A target for developing
novel anti-biofilms therapeutics” - Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India and (iii)
'Increase the shelf life of padhaneer” - IITM under rural development scheme RuTAG.
• 18 faculty members of our college have obtained their Ph.D. degree for their thesis work in
various thrust areas.
• With dedicated involvement in Research activities in current areas of interest, our faculty
members have published 555 papers in reputed Internation and National Journals and
Conferences of which 137 papers are in the Scopus Indexed category. Apart from these, 7
book chapters and 4 books have also been published by them.
• Our college has been awarded “Excellence in fostering Industry-Academic Partenerships for
enabling careers in contemporary engineering sectors” certificate at Bangalore on 21-July-
2018 during NAFEMS Conference 2018.
• REC has received Academic Excellence Award from ICT Academy.
ICT Academy has been working through a seven pillar program in the areas of Faculty
Development, Student Skill Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth
Empowerment, Industry-Institute Interaction, Digital Empowerment and Research &
Publications.
• The Indian Concrete Institute Civil Engineering Student Chapter of Rajalakshmi Engineering
College, Chennai has been selected for the ICI (CC) – UltraTech Award – 2018 for
Outstanding Student Chapter (Chennai region) by the panel of judges constituted by Indian
Concrete Institute Chennai Centre.
• REC is ranked:
o 20th in Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges in India +& 6th in Top 20 Engineering
Colleges with Excellent Industry Exposure by Higher Education Review Magazine.
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o 15 in T-Schools Survey 2018- Top Private T-Schools
o 27th in the Data Quest Survey for Top 100 Institutions
o 24th in National Level and 6th in Tamilnadu by NPTEL and we are in AA category
consecutively for the 4th year.
• REC wins Salesforce Trailhead New India Student Championship 2018.
• REC wins Best Partnering Institute in Chennai Cluster in the PALS 2017-18 Initiative awards.
• Rajalakshmi Engineering College, continues its climb in securing ranks in Anna University
examinations. REC improved its position and moved to 5th amongst 553 engineering colleges
in Tamilnadu












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