IRT Perundurai Medical College, Perundurai was started functioning in the campus from the year 1992.

Its affiliated to Dr. M.G.R. Medical University. 

A 600 bedded modern Hospital was constructed and started functioning from September 1994 onwards.

The long standing desire of the Transport Corporation employees to have a Medical College and Hospital to provide specialised medical treatment to people in the area and to the transport employees and their families was fulfilled by the State Government in  the year 1986.

The Perundurai Medical College and Hospital is located in a posh green landscape of 327 acres, which is 20 km west from Erode on the Erode-Coimbatore National Highway.

The very location of Perundurai is in the closer vicinity of major Industrial Estates / towns / cities like Tirupur, Coimbatore where the possibility of having more occupational diseases.

The Institute being located in a rural setting will go a long way in meeting out the health needs of the socio-economically downtrodden population of the neighboring districts.