The SMIT has been established in a village called Chikkarayapuram in 1996. One of the main mottos of SMIT is to provide Engineering and Technology education to the masses in general and help to improve the living standards of the local community surrounding the college in particular. The Service, Training and Development activity creates a unique bond between the Institution and its local community. The activities extended by the Institution paves a way for the improvement of local community in a larger scale in terms of improvement of living standards of its people by means of various employment opportunity it extends to local community. The Institution engages youths in various training programs conducted, which empowered the local youth to get a job in many Small and Medium Scale Industries and to establish their own shops serving to various needs of the locality. The training and development activities are implemented in surrounding areas and through various committees functioning in the college. As the surrounding of the college is mostly populated by lower middle and middle class people in large numbers, our institution is playing a vital role in addressing the needs of local people and thereby improving their living standards to a large extent.
The Institute gives priority to the local community in job opportunity especially in non-teaching posts.
Students from local community are given preference for admission to various programs offered along with fee waiver schemes.
The Institute periodically conducts various employment oriented technical workshop to the unemployed youths of surrounding areas so that they can get the employment with their skill or set up their own business.
Health awareness and the needs of sanitary importance were constantly insisted through various programs.
The Institution took initiatives in cleaning the surroundings and stressing the importance of pollution free environment for a healthy living.
The camps were arranged to emphasis the importance of safe driving, importance of voting and judicious usage of water resources.
Details of evidence of success achieved during the year 2021-2022 is furnished in Table.7.2.1.
| Best practice | Number |
| Employment to local community | 50 |
| Fee waiver scheme to local students | 50 |
| Schools and Villages adapted | 1 |
| Camps Arranged | 4 |
| Training Programs conducted | 4 |
Details of evidence of success during the year 2021-2022
Local communities were little bit apprehensive about our welfare initiatives initially. The skeptic attitude of certain section of local community in accepting our services in the right sense which are hurdle to render our services. To overcome that several promotional activities, advertisements and one to one canvassing of local community were conducted, which built the mutual relationship between the Institution and local community and paved the way the for sustainable relationship.