Institutional Social Responsibility Activities

SIMATS conducts institutional social responsibility activities, along with various institutions such as Rotaract club, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Swachh Bharath, NSS, NCC to assist various socially relevant activities in rural areas. The impact of these extension activities are far reaching in sensitising students to social issues and holistic development. Students are involved in these activities, which helped to shape their interests in promoting rural development.  Every year, the institution conducts many activities for the adopted villages and other interest groups in nearby localities. Main activities focused by SIMATS are medical care and related services, medical awareness camps such as hygiene, communicable diseases, vaccination benefits etc. Dental college of SIMATS has completed over 743 awareness programs that benefitted 1,11,450  people in our society. SIMATS have been actively involved in many socially responsible activities in the toughest times of the pandemic, especially dental college and medical college along with allied health sciences. During the pandemic, SIMATS have donated 2 crores to CM pandemic and flood relief fund in 2020-2021. Research and development, innovation in the medical and engineering field has promoted the rural development activities or community outreach programs to the greatest heights. 

Public health dentistry department has conducted around 743 camps to render oral health services to the people from the year 2016 to 2021 and about 92,267 people benefited from the camps. About 38, 06, 190 rupees were spent towards the screening and treatment of the camp patients and a mobile medical van was purchased for 39,20,074 rupees. On the occasion of global warming day 2021, dental college organized a huge event for virtual hand hygiene. 1200 students gathered together virtually to sanitize their hands  and create awareness, and received appreciation from India star book of records. SIMATS have spent INR 1300 crores socially relevant activities to the society, including free surgeries ( 613 crores), dental treatments (587 crores), midwifery (75 crores), meritorious scholarship (24 crores), free food for patients (10.4 crores), implants (9 crores), social welfare- guinness (12 crores) and financial relief (3 crores).

SIMATS’s engineering departments conduct various awareness camps, rural development activities such as mapping, sketching and constructions. Under Swachh Bharat, the university constructed public toilets for villages, cleaned university premises according to the norms, maintained gardens, installed solar panels and sewage treatment plants. Simultaneously, managerial and legal activities are handled by the management department and legal department by carrying out awareness and problem solving camps for targeted rural groups. Management department conducts over 300 awareness camps in all villages such as financial literacy, technological literacy, inculcating skills in rural children, donating educational toys, and green boards for the rural government schools. School of management also conducts outreach programs along with Rotaract club of Chennai by planting saplings in villages, providing funds for rural development activities, and conducting fundraising events. Recently, SIMATS in collaboration with UBA have adopted ten villages nearby university and are doing various activities to ensure the villages’ sustainable development.