Edcucomp ties up with Kanchi mutt to set up 100 schools

CHENNAI: Educomp Solutions, a leading education company, today announced its joint venture with Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam to set up a 100 schools across the country.

To be set up under the patronage of Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, the schools will be known as Sri Kanchi Sankara Universal Academy, a company release said.

Kanchi Mutt was interested in providing affordable education and has already set up over 50 schools, 10 colleges and a deemed university over the years.

This tie-up is a result of the common vision of both partners to aid capacity building in school education space and provide affordable value-based education to the masses. Under this tie-up, around 100 schools will come up across the country in the next few years.

The mutt would provide the land and philosophical learnings while Educomp will set-up and manage the schools.