The Dharaneeswarar Educational Trust was founded in February 2002 by a group of highly dedicated professionals with high integrity and urge to encourage and implement the building of a strong India by the providing opportunities to the underprivileged and disadvantaged people in urban and rural areas. The Trust is dedicated to bring progress by wide spread education and preservation of the rich cultural and spiritual heritage, a bedrock of our great civilization.

Dharaneeswarar Educational Trust has been  implementing the above ideals through the path of an Integrated Rural Development Program in a cluster of villages around Thandalam Village – a village 40 km north of Chennai and about 5 km from the temple town of Periapalayam in Thiruvalluvar District ( a district declared educationally backward) of Tamilnadu. Thandalam Village was selected because of its backwardness and yet its proximity to Chennai so that the Trustees can give. personal attention to the progress.