Then, he studied at Presidency College, Chennai and completed his graduation from IIT, Bombay (now Mumbai).
But he quit his Central Government job to focus full time on his hockey work.
[7] One of the main projects, One Thousand Hockey Legs (OTHL), was formally started in 2008.
[9] The cost of about Rs.12 lakhs a year is spent by Arumugam on his own, with part of the support coming from donations from friends, and the proceeds from his hockey books.
He was awarded Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar by President Pranab Mukherjee on 29 August 2016, the Indian Sports Day at Rashtrapati Bhavan.