The Department was started as the Department of Natural Sciences in the year 1957 when the institution was founded by the great patiriot and Educationist,Thiru Avinashilingam ,our revered Ayya Avl, on preferential request by the students of past years. The undergraduate programmes in Zoology was started in 1966. The post graduate programme in Life Science was initiated in 1990 . Following this research programme in M.phil and Doctoral programme in Life Sciences was established in 1992 . At present the Department of Zoology has seven faculty members and Department of Botany has five faculty members. Altogether there are twelve faculty members in the department of Life Sciences, out of which ten are Ph.D., holders and two are M.phil degree holders. The department had the previlege of establishing a higher education link programme with University of Salford,Salford, U.K under the sponsorship of British Council. At present the department is recogonised by Department of Science and Technology (DST) for the FIST programme(Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology Infra structure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions) programe of DST for the period 2003-2008.