Dr. M A Thomas, founded ECC and built it as one of the internationally renowned resource centre, which caters to the need of people from all walks of life to engage in meaningful dialogues and to learn and share the ethics, social and cultural values and foster the spirit of harmony among the community irrespective of caste, creed, color and sex.
Over the past couple of decades the surge in demand for conducting renowned international and national conferences, seminars and symposiums at ECC has been phenomenal.
ECC mainly concentrates on social concerns to encourage harmonious living and peaceful coexistence of people who belong to different faiths and ideologies.
The Ecumenical Christian Centre concentrates on social concerns to encourage harmonious living and peaceful coexistence of people who belong to various faiths and ideologies.
Conferences, seminars and consultations on topics with contemporary relevance such as development education, conflict resolution, communication, human rights, ecology and faith, peace and reconciliation and concerns of the differently-abled and sexual minority are held all round the years.
The general objective of ISET is "to evolve and share a Common Faith Vision as a sign of our commitment to the Reign of God and our Journey in Solidarity with Cosmic Community towards its fulfilment.
Keeping the above objectives in mind, the ISET aims at: > Taking the total context of the world as "the text" and "the context" of theologizing: > Involving all churches and the human community in the process of theologizing: > Discovering and promoting the rich diversity and heritage of all Christians and religious traditions; and > Fostering unity of humankind and all creation by analyzing the divisive and destructive forces at work in the world, by exposing their root causes and proposing ways of healing and reconciliation and peace with justice.
> Vegetable gardening > Element of Floriculture and cut flowers > Gardening -Indoor and outdoor > Medicinal and Aromatic plants > Spice crops > Commercial crops > Application of biotechnology in horticulture > Irrigation and fertigation technology > Protected cultivation of vegetables and flowers (greenhouse) > Machinery for horticultural production > Contract farming and linkages > Dry land crops and management > Sericulture and economics > Management of successful farms > Financing by NABARD and Banks > Lecture classes are followed by field visits both within the campus and to premium farms/plantations.