Selvam Arts &Science College
Dr. P. Selvaraj is the Managing Trustee of the TRUST, he availed B.V.Sc, degree from a reputed institution Madras Veterinary College in the country. He is one of the nationally renowned people in the Poultry Development in the country. He closely worked with Dr. B. V. Rao and continues to work with his successor Dr. Anurada Desai. When the whole country was suffering from hunger and poverty interwoven with malnutrition as a symbol of food insecurity parallel to Green Revolution he with a team worked for the development of poultry industry in Namakkal Zone and succeeded in creating Namakkal as EGG CITY in India and abroad. This development is a remarkable event in the democratic Indian History which had supported the GDP of the country and reduced poverty and food insecurity index of the country. In the process he identified that Veterinary College in Namakkal is essential and stood instrumental in establishing the same.
A strong believer of democracy and inclined to poor sections of the community he addressed issues of countries poverty in developing the poultry industry through acting as instrumental in creating many cooperative structure of poultry farmers in addressing their problems of poultry management and marketing. The strategy that he adopted in this venture is partnership building and value added market chain approach. As a model of potential poultry farming he started first commercial poultry farm in 1971 and subsequently Selvam Trading Company to cater the needs of the other poultry units of Feed, Medicine and Vaccines.
