Mahatma Phule Digital Knowledge Resource Centre

The RayatShikshanSanstha is one of the leading educational institutions in Asia. The value of its contribution to education in general is enormously great as it has, from the very beginning, tried all its best to lay emphasis on the education of the down-trodden, the poor and the ignorant who really form the major bulk of society.

The founder of the institution, late Dr. KaramaveerBhauraoPatil, was a man of the masses who devoted all his mind and heart to the cause of their education. He had an incisive understanding of the social ills that beset his times and fully realized the dire need of the spread of education. He believed that education alone could correct the social ills such as caste-hierarchy, money-lending, illiteracy, untouchability, superstitions and social and economic inequality. Throughout his life he tried to translate this belief into reality.

He was the champion of the poor, the weak, the dispossessed and left no stone unturned for their upliftment. He was a great humanitarian who endeavored hard to educate the masses to bring a kindly light of hope in their lives of misery and ignorance. He realised that the social ills could be remedied through the education of the masses alone and laid the foundation of the RayatShikshanSanstha by opening a Boarding House at Kale (Tal-Karad, Dist-Satara) in 1919. Soon, however, in 1924 he shifted the head-quarters of his educational institution to Satara.

Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Mahatma Phule Arts, Science and Commerce College, Panvel District- Raigad (Maharashtra) is one of the prime educational institutions affiliated to University of Mumbai. It is run by Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara, presumably the largest educational institution in Asia, founded by the visionary Late Padmabhushan Dr. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil. It relishes the dream of socio-economic upliftment of the rural masses and their overall development by the means of education.

The college was established in June 1970 in the purview of the Sanstha’s splendid aphorism to educate students of farmers, workers, fishermen and saltpan workers of Raigad District, especially of Panvel, Pen, Uran and Khalapur tehsils. Our college was the sole option made available by the Sanstha of higher educational opportunities to the children of the aforesaid populace at the time of its establishment. It has successfully been marching ahead and taking efforts endlessly for the betterment of its stakeholders.
We feel proud to mention that the college has made commendable contribution in shaping careers of its thousands of students and played an astonishing role in the overall development of them who in turn have brought laurels to the college, state and country alike. The students have been benefited from the quality education provided by the college and attained the top positions in academic, social, political, cultural, sports, etc. provinces.