Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe alias Govindrao Dnyanojirao Salunkhe, the great visionary educationlist founded Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha, Kolhapur is established in 1954.
It is catering to the education needs of students belonging to 11 districts of the State of Maharashtra. Presently, it is functioning through its 330 educational and cultural centers which include 170 high schools, 8 D.T.Ed colleges, 18 Arts, Commerce and Science colleges, 66 Junior colleges, 3 B.Ed colleges, one law college, multipurpose high schools, 19 hostels, and one Asharamashala (residential school).
Most of these education centers are situated in the rural, backward, hilly, drought-hit and remote parts of the state of Maharashtra. Nearly, more than two lakhs of students are receiving their lessons in the Sanstha’s different sanskar centres. All these centres of the Sanstha are manned with well-qualified, experienced and devoted faculty, Administrative and Non-teaching staff .
Dr. Bapuji’s dedicated work, great service to the downtrodden and poor communities of the society is rewarded by the Government of Maharashtra by awarding him with the title “Dalit Mitra”. Shivaji University, Kolhapur conferred on him the degree of D.Litt. The people awarded him with the title “Shikshanmaharshi” for his yeoman’s efforts an pioneering work in the field of education .
Principal’s Message
Dear Student,
I, on behalf of College of Education, take great pride in welcoming you to our campus. We believe in fostering a climate that encourages learning and personal growth. We value a commitment to excellence in all we do. This is the place where you can find the college of your dreams.
The aim of education is to teach us how to think, than what to think, to improve our mind, think for ourselves, and not just fill our brains. Education makes a man a right thinker and a correct decision maker. He achieves from the external world, teaching him with past history, so that he may be a better judge of the present. Without education, man, as it were, is locked up in a windowless room. With education, he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world.
– Dr.Sou.Deshmukh Sulbha Dilip
Principal.