K.S. Babai, secretary of Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, passed away on Thursday. She was 81. Her sister, K.S. Lakshmi, is the secretary of Meenakshi College for Women.
Born as the second of four sisters and a brother, she set store much by academic achievements. She completed B.Sc., in Mathematics from Stella Maris College and was among the first few women engineers. She graduated in B.E. civil engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy (now one of the four units of Anna University), in 1966 with a first class., said her nephew V.N. Sriram.
