The Bhaktavatsalam Educational Trust with Thiru.O.V.Alagasan, a great patriot and an ardent follower of gandhian Ideals as its Founder President established the Bhaktavatsalam Polytechnic, now rechristined as Bhaktavatsalam Polytechnic College at Kanchipuram in the year 1958 to fulfil the long-felt desire of the public to have a technical institution in Kanchipuram district.