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Shri Shivaji Education Society Karad's - Board of Higher Education, Karad
Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Karad
Affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur
NAAC Reaccredited as "A+" Grade | AN ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFIED | REG NO. RQ91/R5237
Shri Shivaji Education Society, Karad, founded by Late Hon. Shri Yashwantrao Chavan, former Deputy Prime Minister of India, esablished this college in June 1958 as Science College Karad with an objective of providing education in science to students of the Karad area in Maharashtra. To keep his memory alive, the college was renamed after him in 1986. The college building inaugurated in 1960 by the then President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad is located in a sprawling campus of around 40 acres and has flourished under the able stewardship of Late Hon. Shri P. D. Patil. Today Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Karad is one of the premier educational institution in this region. Read More.
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Welcome to Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Karad, where curiosity meets discovery and learning knows no bounds. It was founded in 1958 by the great leader from this place and the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Late Hon. Shri Yashwantrao Chavan with the vision of providing the best facilities for top quality science education to students of this rural area. "
With a modest beginning the college has taken giant strides since then to keep up with its ideals and become one of the premier educational institutions in the Shivaji University jurisdiction today. Accredited with a A+ grade by NAAC in 2024, the special feature of this college is the studious and industrious Read More
Hon. Late Shri Yashwantraoji Chavan
Deputy Prime Minister of India (1979-80)
Hon. Late P.D. Patil, Founder Chairman
Shri. Shivaji Education Society Karad’s Board for Higher Education
(1958 to 2008)
Hon. M.L.A. Shri Balasaheb Patil, Chairman
Shri. Shivaji Education Society Karad’s Board for Higher Education
With his good educational background, Late Hon. Shri Yashwantrao Chavan realised that education of the masses alone is the panacea for the populace of this country. Also seeing the truth in Mahatma Gandhi’s belief that `India lives in its villages’ he decided that rural India needed more educational facilities. With this view therefore, he, along with close confidantes, established the Shri Shivaji Education Society, Karad in 1945 with the prime objective of promoting quality education at the Primary, Secondary as well as Higher (college) levels in all streams such as Arts, Science, Technology, Industry, Agriculture, Commerce,etc along with providing adequate infrastructure and advanced facilities for the same. Spreading of this educational atmosphere in the surrounding region was also another of its important objectives. Accordingly, it started the Read More
“To educate students through dedicated holistic attitude to develop ethical, disciplined, sensible and determined citizen to cope with local to global challenges” Read More
To Perpetuate a science culture among the rural masses of this region so that the youth develop a scientific temperament and build up a capacity for objective Read More
To create a "Center of excellence" through a continual improvement in the effectiveness of the Quality Management System, with the best Read More.
