The Pravara Rural Education Society (PRES) was established in July 1964 at Pravara, Loni, a large village in Maharashtra state in India. It is located between Pune to the South and Nashik to the North. The founder, Padamshri Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil, was a leader of the cooperative movement. The society's first school was an English medium school.
Padam Bhushan Sh Balasaheb Vikhe Patil is the chairman of the society, and [Rajendra Bhane Patil] is the executive chairman.
Progress
The Pravara Rural Education Society operates 11 technical colleges, 6 senior colleges, 6 English medium schools including a Sainik School and 32 Marathi medium schools. In all, over 40,000 students are presently on the rolls of these institutions.[citation needed]
Major institutions
Technical colleges
- Pravara Rural Engineering College, Loni[1]
- Sri Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Chincholi, Nashik.[2]
- Padamshri Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Institute of Technology & Engineering, Loni
- Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Loni
- Pravara Women's College of Pharmacy, Chincholi
- Pravara Rural College of Architecture, Loni
- College of Pharmacy, Chincholi
- Industrial Training Institute, and Women Industrial Training Institute, Loni
- HAL-Pravara Aviation Institute, Ozar, Nashik
Senior colleges
- Padamshri Vikhe Patil College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pravaranagar
- Arts, Commerce and Science College, Satral
- Pravara Women's College of Home Science and BCA, Loni
- College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Loni
- Pravara Rural College of Education, Loni
- College of Physical Education, Loni
English medium schools
- Pravara Public School, Pravaranagar
- Pravara Central Public School, Pravaranagar
- Padamshri Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Sainik School, Loni
- Pravara Girls English Medium School & Junior College, Loni
- Pravara High School, Kolhar
- Padmashri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil International School, Loni
References
- ↑ "PRAVARA RURAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE LONI". pravaraengg.org.in.
- ↑ "Welcome to SVIT, Nashik". svitnashik.in.