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OUR VISION

To provide a Christian-value laden, civic-oriented and skills-based education to the students so that they may become better citizens of the country and of the world.

OUR MISSION

To form and reform the young minds by offering students the opportunities to grow in faith and pursue the truth, to learn the principles of charity and hope and to train them in skills for livelihood.

OUR MOTTO

The motto, “Love, Life, Light”, challenges and inspires the students to aim beyond academic excellence. We aim to create a new generation of students who love and serve, live the true aspects of life and light up the world around them.

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HISTORY

The Carmel Rani School is a private institution run by the Institute of Our Lady of Carmel. This Congregation of Carmelite sisters was founded in Italy in 1854 by Blessed Maria Teresa Scrilli. The charism of the institute is to provide quality Christian and civic education to the young from their most tender years to adolescence.

In the later part of 2009, upon invitation from the then Bishop of Thanjavur, Most Rev Dr Devadass Ambrose, four Sisters from Kerala landed in Namanasamudram, a village about 10 kms south of Pudukkottai – to start a new mission. Eschewing city parishes where scope for ministry and chances of success were more, the Sisters chose this relatively small, little known parish as their base , for this was where, they felt, their ministry was most needed. Needless to say, the initial days were hard. Having neither any land nor any house, the Sisters gratefully accepted the diocese’s offer of a tin-roofed concrete structure – located in a corner of the sprawling campus of the diocesan-run St Joseph’s Industrial Training Institute (ITI) – and converted it into their humble abode.