The College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) in Chennai, India, is India's oldest engineering and technical institution, having been established in 1794. Today it is one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University.[1]
It was started in May 1794 as a School of Survey and established as a college in 1859 under the Madras University, and is one of the oldest technical institutes in the world.[2]
It has link-ups with institutions and organizations like USAID, UNCHS, Ford Foundation, European Economic Community and the governments of Germany and UK. It was the first college in the country to have its own postage stamp when the Indian Postal Service brought out a postage stamp to mark the 200th anniversary of the institution.
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