The School of Distance Education was established during the year 1991-1992 and Distance Education Council (DEC) has provisionally recognized all courses conducted by SDE vide letter 'F. No. DEC/9909/2009/ dated 17.12.2009. The School has limited its operation for the obvious reason of strengthening its base to provide quality education. Having realized the objective, the School has started extending its action by identifying and approving Learning Support Centres (LSC) within Tamilnadu to help achieve a higher gross enrolment ratio and higher literacy rate.
SDE Directors:
Dr.Thirunavukkarasu (01.04.1992 - 31.07.1992)
Dr. S. Perumalsamy, i/c (01.08.1992 - 24.03.1994)
Dr. S. Krishnamoorthy, i/c (25.03.1994 - 30.11.1994)
Dr. V. Soundarajan, i/c (01.12.1994 - 07.03.1996)
Dr. S. Swaminathan (07.03.1996 - 06.03.1998)
Dr. K. Ramakrishnan, i/c (08.03.1998 - 30.06.1999)
Dr. M.R. Ragavachar, i/c (01.07.1999 - 31.08.2000)
Dr. K.P. Kandamy, i/c (01.09.2000 - 30.06.2001)
Dr. Lakshmana Perumalsamy, i/c (01.07.2001 - 04.03.2002)
Dr.Rengarajulu, (05.03.2002 - 31.03.2007)
Dr. N. Balasubramanian (01.04.2007 - 11.06.2010)
Dr. C.V. Subburaam, i/c (17.06.2010 - 03.01.2011)
Dr. V. Anbumani, i/c (10.01.2011 - 30.07.2012)
Dr. K. Govindarajalu (21.08.2012 - 20-08-2015)
Dr. K.G.Senthilvasan, i/c (24.08.2015 - 10.09.2015)
Dr. R. Saravanaselvan, i/c (11.09.2015 - 21.12.2015)
Dr. P.E. Thomas, i/c (21.12.2015 - 10.07.2016)
Dr. R. Mathivanan, i/c (11-07-2016 - 19.01.2018)
Dr. K.K. Suresh, i/c (09.02.2018 - 29.06.2018)
Dr. P.E. Thomas, i/c (30.06.2018 - 11.08.2020)
Dr. P.E. Thomas (11.08.2020 - 02.09.2022)
Dr. R. Muthukrishnan (02-09.2022 - Till Date)
