Background
Leo Muthu was born in 1952 in Thiruthuraipoondi Village, Thiruvarur District, Tamil Nadu to K G Manickam-Nagalakshmi.
Leo Muthu was born in 1952 in Thiruthuraipoondi Village, Thiruvarur District, Tamil Nadu to K G Manickam-Nagalakshmi.
He started his career in real estate in 1972. Leo Muthu founded the educational trusts to serve for the cause of quality secondary grade and higher education to the learner community. The group of colleges under the trusts offers education across technical, management studies, research, shipping science and alternative medicine streams and more.
About 25,000 students are being given the benefit of education per year through the group’s schools and colleges.
Sapthagiri Educational Trust runs the following institutions in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry:
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai
Sri Sairam Institute of Management Studies, Chennai
Sri Sairam Institute of Computer Applications, Chennai
Sri Sairam Institute of Technology, Chennai
Sri Sairam Siddha Medical College and Research Centre, Chennai
Sri Sairam Ayurveda Medical College and Research Centre, Chennai
Sri Sairam Homoeopathy Medical College and Research Centre, Chennai
Sai Ram Advanced Centre for Research, Chennai. Sai Ram Matriculation Hr.School, Goripalayam, Madurai
Sai Jothi Polytechnic College, Eliyarpathy, Madurai
Sri Sairam College of Education, Puducherry
Sai Ram Matriculation school, Thiruvarur
Sai Ram Vidyalaya, Madipakkam, Chennai.
Sai Ram Vidyalaya, Puducherry
Institutions run by Leo Muthu Educational Trust include:
Sri Sai Ram Polytechnic College, Chennai
Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai
Sai Ram Matriculation Hr.School, Chennai
Sai Ram Matriculation Hr. School, Thiruthuraipoondi
The institutions run under Sapthagiri Educational and Charitable Trust are the following:
Sri Sairam College of Engineering, formerly Shirdi Sai Engineering College, Anekal, Bangalore.
Shirdi Sai Pre University college, Anekal, Bangalore.
Leo Muthu started business enterprises in real estate development in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states. He also set up manufacturing industries. In his housing business, he introduced over 75 housing schemes and industrial complexes in and around the suburbs of Chennai, Madurai, Hosur and Bangalore.
Leo Muthu was also the Managing Director of Super Fibre Glass (P) Limited., a Supplemental Security Income manufacturing unit of Fibre Glass Sleeves and Chords, at Chennai which is a supplier to Lucas TVS, English Electric Company, and Kirloskar Company, among others
He also ran Sri Sairaj Printers, a printing company, Super Sea Food Products Private Limited, Tuticorin, a fish products company, and Sai Jothi Quarry, Chennai, which is engaged in quarrying stones.
As a philanthropist, Leo Muthu was committed to the cause of improving the lives of people in poverty and donated lands and buildings to the Government of Tamil Nadu, social organizations, orphan homes, Lions and Rotary Clubs. He donated about 16.5 acres of land in Thiruthuraipoondi, his birthplace, in support of the state government’s scheme for opening an engineering college and high school in every district of the state.
He made regular donations for the construction of temples and mass marriages, free medical camps, social awareness camps and blood donation camps.He used to beat the students and abuse the parents of the students during the trust office meetings
He was a generous contributor to educational funding and scholarships for school and college students.