Nestled in the vast expanse of the agricultural lands of Kalitheerthalkuppam on the Pondicherry-Villupuram main road, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology is the 10th and the most recent edifice that spells modernity and technological advance even as a classically architecture temple of the elephant-faced GOD welcomes the entrant with the deity bestowing intelligence and supernatural powers upon those who worship him with closed palms and an open heart.