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To be a centre of educational excellence, built on community partnerships, effective leadership and exemplary practices.
MISSION
PSTGV’s mission is to: ASPIRE – to greatness, to dream big, to aim high
BELIEVE - IN them, work hard and know that they can learn anything
EXPLORE – All the opportunities, in class in school and beyond
ACHIEVE – Their goals and their best
LIFE SKETCH
Brahmasri Pennathur Subramania Iyer was born in March, 1860 in a respectable
family at Chitoor, North Arcot District, in the then Madras Presidency. His father
P. Veeraraghava Iyer was, towards the close of his official career, Deputy
Collector of Tirunelveli. While he was still a student of the Junior B.A. class
in the Presidency College, young Subramaniam had the misfortune to lose his
father.
The unexpected loss of the parent, who was the mainstay of the family, made it
impossible for him to complete his University education and take his B.A. degree.
In order to discharge the onerous duties of supporting his mother and younger
sisters, he had to give up his college studies and take up government service,
which would give him a secure employment with reasonable remuneration.
He was appointed Sub-Registrar of Tadpatri in Bellary District in 1879, which
office he held till 1883. A man of active habits and unusual vigor of intellect,
P.Subramaniam found the monotony and routine of his office extremely dry and
uninteresting. He was thinking of taking to a congenial sphere of work, when by
providential grace he became acquainted with Sir S.Subramania Iyer, K.C.I.E,
LL.D one of the brightest stars in the legal firmament of Madras at that time.
Sir S.Subramania Iyer advised him to study law, finding in him the requisite
capacity and talents congenial to the legal profession. Accordingly, Pennathur
Subramaniam studied law but was not permitted to take the B.L. degree
examination as he was not a graduate. So he had to content himself with enrolling
as Solicitor in the Madras High Court. Very soon he came to prominence in his
new sphere and was recognized as one of the leading Solicitors of Madras at that
time.
He was a man of great courage, dedication and generosity. He was graceful and
elegant in his manners and moved with great aplomb among the Britishers and other
Europeans in the city at that time.
He was a great lover of Nature and maintained a very beautiful garden, with a
large variety of flowers of variegated colours, fragrance and sizes, at his residence in
Eldams Road, Alwarpet. Often he won prizes in the garden competitions conducted
by the Madras Horticulture Society for "The best kept garden" in the city.
In 1890, he entered the Chennai Corporation as a Commissioner for the Mylapore
Division, which seat he retained till his death in 1901. It was at his instance and through
his influence that the underground drainage works were begun and completed in the
Mylapore Division, replacing the open drains that had existed before as a hotbed of
infections of various kinds. Two or three years before his death, he purchased the
Shrotriem Estates at Minjur on the northern outskirts of Madras City.
In 1899, he was seriously laid up with an attack of rheumatism, following the
unremitting work he had to perform as a Solicitor commanding an unusually large
practice. He foresaw that he was not to live long and that he should take quick steps
for the disposal of his property in a way to benefit his country men. Having no
male issue to inherit his fortune, he thought that the best use he could make of his
wealth was to utilise it for the spread of knowledge among the rising generation.
With this object in view he made his last Will and Testament by which he set apart
the Shrotriems of Minjur and Ariyanvoyal for the establishment and maintenance of
a Sanskrit School or any other charity which his executors, Messrs. A.Sitarama Iyer
and P.S.Ganapathy Iyer, with the approval of his friend Sir S.Subramania Iyer might
fix upon. After prolonged illness, lasting for more than a year, he recovered but died
suddenly of heart failure on the 1st of March 1901 when he was 41 years old.
By his success in life, he has shown that one can make one’s way up by dint of
energy, enterprise and application. More durably than in marble or bronze, he is
enshrined in the hearts of generations of his countrymen in Mylapore by his large-
hearted generosity in furthering the cause of education.
P.S. Temple Green Vidyashram, started in June 2012, is a constituent Unit of P.S.Educational Society,
Mylapore, Chennai headed by Shri T.S.Krishna Murthy former Chief Election Commissioner as
President. The Society has been dedicated to the cause of education since 1905 and the P.S. Temple
Green Vidyashram is serving the rural areas adjoining Chennai city.
The School having an area of more
than 3 acres has all the infrastructure, as required – airy and well-lit class rooms, a spacious library,
SMART Boards in five class rooms, well-equipped audio-visual room, labs, etc. Apart from regular
curriculum, Abacus, Yoga, and Rhapsody music lessons enhance the learning skills of the students.
Participation in Science and Maths Olympiads from the last year has also motivated them to compete with
confidence.