The Shivaji Education Society is the largest Indian educational society in Vidarbha. It was established by social activist and politician Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh at Amravati. The society is associated with arts, commerce and science colleges, a management college in Nagpur, an engineering college in Akola, and a medical college in Amravati. It has a widespread network of school and colleges in Vidarbha.
Missions
• To build a network of schools and colleges for educating the masses • To undertake rural development programme for the upliftment of villages and the rural areas with such instruments like the rural development institutes and its like • To establish farmers' association for safeguarding their interests and for ventilating their grievances • To disseminate the latest knowledge and technology in farming, so that the people of this region are always in the flow of the latest currents worldwide • To open Shri Shivaji Loka Vidyapeeth to speed up the programme of cultural renaissance and advancement of knowledge • To undertake an exclusive programme for caste eradication, social reformation and freedom from debt of the farmers and peasants ==References==