Dr. Panjabrao alias Bhausaheb Deshmukh,
the first Agricultural Minister of India, established Shri Shivaji
Education Society, Amravati in the year 1932 for the following purposes:
(1)
to establish, conduct, manage,
supervise and take over educational institutions of various kinds
for boys, girls and adults;
(2)
to provide facilities for the
acquisition of knowledge and information and the advancement of
culture;
(3)
to undertake and make available
facilities for research in all braches of knowledge and to establish
institutions for the purpose;
(4)
to carry on experiments with
a view to improving methods of teaching and to establishing institutions
for this purpose;
(5)
to encourage physical culture
and to start, conduct or manage institutions for this purpose;
(6)
to encourage women's education
by establishing special institutions like hostels, widows' homes,
nursing schools, etc.;
(7)
to establish hostels for poor
boys and girls and to open and conduct orphanages.
(8)
to co-operate with the government
other Societies, institutions and bodies for the purpose of promoting
the cause of education and spread of knowledge and culture;
(9)
to establish, start conduct and
manage printing presses for publishing books, periodicals journals
and other educational material;
(10)
to undertaking farming, gardening
and to acquire land on lease, or to purchase land for the same purpose;
(11)
to start other subsidiary activities
and institutions such as the establishment of stores, medical aid
societies etc.;
(12)
to help, assist, aid any institution
under the management of the Society or otherwise, by advice, guidance
and supervision;
(13)
to organize exhibitions and culture- weeks, etc.;
(14)
to organize and run tournaments, competitions Olympiads
etc.;
(15)
to undertake publicity and propaganda
by all possible means, such as films lectures, debates and demonstrations;
(16)
to hold, organize, arrange and
manage conferences, seminars, Kavi Sammelans etc.;
(17)
to acquire property, both movable
and immovable, to raise funds for carrying out the objects of the
Society;
(18)
to do each, every and all such
things as are incidental or helpful or conducive to the accomplishment,
attainment, and furtherance of the above objects.
