Rajagiri
| Motto | Learn, Serve and Excel |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | 2001 |
| Founder | Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara |
| Affiliation | Carmelites of Mary Immaculate |
| President | Fr. Jose Alex Oruthayapilly CMI |
| Superintendent | Rev. Fr. Varghese Panthallorkaran CMI, PhD |
| Director | Fr. Antony Kariyil CMI, PhD |
| Students | 4000 |
| Location |  Kochi, India |
| Campus | Kalamassery, Kakkanad |
| Colors | Dark Orange, Light Grey and Maroon |
| Affiliations |
UGC AICTE Mahatma Gandhi University Indra Gandhi National Open University |
| Website |
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Rajagiri is the provincial headquarters of the Sacred Heart Province, Kochi, and part of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), an indigenous Syrian Catholic religious congregation founded in 1831. It is located on a small hill in the outskirts of the rapidly expanding urban center of Kochi, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It was acquired after Indian independence and developed by the Sacred Heart province.
The literal meaning of Raja Giri in the Malayalam language (the vernacular of the people in Kerala) is the Hill of the King, where the King refers to Christ the King.
Nowadays, Rajagiri is synonymous with Sacred Heart Province of the CMI congregation and its many social and educational institutions. CMI educational missions to date is a vast network of 448 institutions: over 200 schools, 14 university affiliated colleges, 1 engineering college, 12 technical institutes, 1 university, 1 medical college, 3 teacher training colleges, 5 special schools, 18 non formal educational institutions and 17 cultural centres which are spread all over India and a few located abroad.
Due to constraints in space for the expansion of its various initiatives at the Kalamaserry campus, Rajagiri has extended into a new 90-acre (360,000 m2) campus on the banks of the Chitrapuzha river. This location is now called Rajagiri Valley, and is where Rajagiri has begun establishing a national science, arts and technology university – Rajagiri Vidyapeetham. It has tied up with a leading Kochi based property developer - RDS Projects Limited, to develop a modern university township.
When the CMI congregation was divided into three provinces in 1953, the central region of Kerala, more or less coextensive with the territory of the then archdiocese of Ernakulam which exists today as the Ernakulam - Angamaly Archdiocese and the Kothamangalam Diocese), was constituted into Sacred Heart Province.
When the province was established, it had its headquarters in Aluva (which is presently the St. Antony's Monastery, Aluva). In 1959, it shifted to Rajagiri in Kalamassery. The Sacred Heart province was then onwards known as the Rajagiri province.
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