We Are Deeply Grieved Sad Demise Of Dr. PRADEEP P. THEVANNOOR Vice Chairman, SCMS Group

We are deeply grieved Sad Demise of Dr. PRADEEP P. THEVANNOOR Vice Chairman, SCMS Group

With deep sense of grief we report the sad and untimely demise of Dr. Pradeep P. Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, and the elder son of Dr. G.P.C. Nayar, Founder and Chairman of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, in a car crash near Kaveripattinam, in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours on November 17, 2014. He was 46. The Range Rover he was driving rammed a lorry and turned turtle. He died on the spot.

He was on his way to Bangalore in connection with the work on the forthcoming launch of a new campus of SCMS at Bangalore.

Dr. Pradeep’s astute leadership was instrumental in the success of various notable developmental projects of SCMS such as the Centre for Sustainable Water Technology and Management (a water research centre started in an engineering college for the first time in Kerala) and the Neera project (the first neera research and pilot production unit in the private sector in the state) by SCMS Biotech Institute. His yet another dream project was the production of biofuel from coconut oil at the biotech institute. The project was successfully completed, trial runs were conducted and preparations were on for its launch within a short time. He was keen on giving more priority to research and was the key person in ably guiding several notable achievements of SCMS in the field of R & D.

As an able administrator, in addition to his administrative responsibilities, he devoted special attention to promoting SCMS Group as a global player. He linked SCMS with several top class Universities in the world enabling faculty and student exchange. It was he who initiated the prestigious Indian-German Water Partnership. It was under his leadership that the Indian German Water Summit was organised in Kochi recently.

He was an Executive Committee member of Kerala Self-financing Engineering College Managements Association.

Dr. Pradeep’s untimely loss makes an irreparable loss not only to SCMS but also to the entrepreneurial future of the state.

Thousands of people from all walks of life including ministers, pubic men, educationists, industrialists, academicians, students, media chiefs and other professionals paid homage to his body kept for public tribute at his residence.

He is survived by his parents Dr. G.P.C. Nayar and Mrs. Sarasamma Nayar, wife Dr. Radha P.Thevannoor (Group Director and Director-SCMS School of Technology and Management), son Prateek Nayar?, daughter Parvathy Nayar, younger brother Prof. Pramod P. Thevannoor, (Senior Director, SCMS Group) and sister-in-law Dr. Indu Nair (Group Director and Director-MCA).

The entire SCMS family is deeply grieved and joins the bereaved family in their sorrow.