On behalf of the KLNCE-CSI Students' Chapter, a Republic day celebration  was held as a part of the January month activity on 31st January, 2011 from 9.00 am to 2:30pm. The venue was IT FOSS LAB.

All the contests were open to both CSI and Non-CSI members of the college. A total of 121 students participated in the contest. A total of six events were held. The details of the events are:

All the preliminaries were started at 10 A.M. Simultaneously at different venues. Chief Guest Shri. S.P.Srinivasan was kind enough to visit all the events. Shri K.N.K.Ganesh, President of KLNCE and and Prof. R.T.Sakthidaran, Dean (Academic), HOD/IT and CSI-Student Branch Councelor also visited various venues to observe the progress of events. Winners were selected by our Chief Guest and supported by our President and SBC. A formal function was held at 1.00 P.M. Shri. K.N.K. Ganesh, President, KLNCE presided the function. Shri. S.P.Srinivasan was the Chief Guest who was the Freedom Fighter and Retiredd Theatre Artist of Gandhigram. Mr. D. Bala Subramanian of III  year IT delivered the welcome address. Prof. R.T. Sakthidaran introduced the Chief Guest to the participants. Shri.K.N.K.Ganesh delivered the presidential address. Then Chief guest addressed the gathering. “He reminded that he was the only person in the event who was born before India's independance. He emphasized the importance of students understanding the significance of independance movement. He regreted the society being divided by politicians by cast, religion and territory. He appreciated the students effort to understand politics. He said politics as such is not bad. However, politics has gone in the hands of criminals and greedy persons. He narrated a few interesting incidences from his life during the independance movement. He talked about the attrcities committed by police and the fear that they had created in the minds of people during the British Raj. He wished the students a peaceful, clean and healthy environment in future. Finally, he appreciated the efforts taken by KLNCE-CSI-SBC for arranging such a socially relevant program and the support given by the management”. Then, he distributed the prizes to the winners of various competitions. Finally, a vote of thanks was delivered by Ms. S.Arifa of III year IT.