Dr. Rajadurai earned many titles in his lifetime as Scientist, Environmentalist, Executive, Educationalist, Teacher, Philanthropist, Philosopher, Theologian, Statesman, Patriarch and above all a great human being. Though he held senior leadership positions in fortune 500 American Corporations and made immense contributions, he always felt proud himself to be remembered as a Teacher. He strongly believes in fundamental education and spiritual innovation. He wants to transform our society through disciplined behaviors and systematic education. He believes that knowledge is no more a finite resource available to an elite number of people, now it comes endowed to all of us. He wants education to be provided to all deserving individuals and never be refused to any individual due to financial constraints. Dr. Rajadurai instituted a range of academic scholarships for meritorious students at Colleges and Higher Secondary Schools to encourage the most deserving students to excel in their carrier :

Dr. Sivanandi Rajadurai, Assistant Professor at Loyola College, Chennai from 1980-85 established a merit award for the Best Student in M.Sc. Chemistry in the name of Rev. Fr. Sebastian Kalarickal, S.J., to recognize his dedicated services to students from the year 2006.

Dr. Rajadurai received Kerala University Gold Medal for securing university First Rank in M.Sc. Chemistry from Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum in 1974. To give his respect to the Professors of the Department of Chemistry, he established Gurusmrithi Award in 2006 in Mar Ivanios College to be given to the Best Student of M.Sc. Chemistry every year. Most of his Professors and nine out of eleven of his classmates and interestingly Rev. Fr. Geevarghese Panicker, then Principal Mar Ivanios College who provided him M.Sc. admission, attended the function after 32 years.

Dr. Rajadurai completed his sixth grade to final 11^th grade schooling in Ringle Taube High School, Mylaudy (1962 – 1968). To show his gratitude towards the institution, Dr. Rajadurai Instituted a merit award in 1996 for the Best Student at the Higher Secondary Examination (12^th Grade) from Mylaudy Village, Kanyakumari District. He also instituted two additional merit awards in the year 1997 for the Best outgoing Students in the school.

Dr. Rajadurai strongly believe that poverty and education are inevitably linked. He started to provide teaching & assistant from 1972. He established a unique relationship with students by enlightening their minds through culture & education. He was constantly thinking to support the needy. Thus, he regularized his societal help through Rajadurai Foundation, one of the missions is to support education for under privileged students. It trusts that all students deserve the best start in life through education and he opened gates of opportunities for the financially poor unfortunate children and give them a chance to learn and grow from dependent to independent to inter-dependent. Rajadurai Foundation provides the necessary awareness, assistance, better education, career guidance, coaching and support to students at all levels of education. It provides assistance to support infrastructure for all aspects of education.

Dr. Rajadurai had his early education in the Mylaudy East Junior Basic Government School (1956) with very minimal infrastructure. As there was no effort undertaken to rebuild the school, he realized the need for a building for children to spend their time for preparatory study. Very often rain water affected the education of students. He built a Mandapam in 1998 adjacent to the school in the Mutharamman temple for effective education of the students. He struggled hard to make education reachable, flexible and feasible. Rajadurai Foundation enlightens and creates widespread awareness of education among all sections of people particularly in rural areas and among the urban poor. It continuously provides financial support and tutoring for all under-privileged students. It acts like a bridge between poverty and education for rural children to become professionals in science, technology, engineering and management. Rajadurai Foundation’s endowment for education is unique and highly commendable.