About us
About College
Anand Niketan College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Anandwan, the embodiment of Baba’s creative intellectuality, came into being on June 20, 1964 and since then it has been known for academic excellence, inventive pursuits, and athletic dynamism. This magnificence in curricular and extracurricular avenues has persisted to its bloom, and scaled new heights with maturing years. Our College is a multi-stream institution catering to the needs of the young minds primarily from the rural areas. Attractive building, well equipped laboratories, a ply-ground with multi-utility outfield, centralized library with computer and over 44000 books, fully developed campus with green pastures and floral varieties, multi-purpose Auditorium guest house attached with Anandwan, decently maintained lavatories are the asset our college takes pride in.
However, any educational institution cannot be enlivened only with bricks and mortar. Real grace lies with the professional expertise and edifying devotion of the teachers. Paramountcy of the teachers is unswerving in the realm of academic exploration. Our college has got mosaic of proficient, competent and academically elevated teachers, amongst which 15 have Ph.D. and 06 M. Phil. degrees. Greatly enthused members of the nonteaching staff are there to extend their services to the faculty.
Management, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Vikas Amte, Secretary, Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Anandwan, is invariably there to offer its caressing hand to the college establishment. Devotion to the cause and utmost precision in task-mastership of the management has always been a source of inspiration to those who matter in the college premises.
The institution is established by great visionary Shraddhey Baba Amte with the vision to uplift educationally, economically and socially underprivileged people through special focus on education and skill development which will lead them to live a dignified personal and social life. While in the college, institution makes the students and society at large realize that the leprosy is not a taboo or stigma. This is to be achieved through sustained efforts and initiatives.
- Our Mission is to inculcate independent thinking in individuals who will have a voice in society and become messengers of change. Through our value education and social outreach programmes, we foster a concern to elevate the standard of poor and oppressed. The aim of holistic education is to prepare our students to meet the challenges of life besides attaining academic excellence. Mission statements can be summarized as follows:
- To provide the facility of higher education to the students coming from inaccessibly remote, rural and backward areas. To expose the students, from the rural and tribal areas to the rational and scientific attitudes, in addition to the formal courses pertaining to the Arts, Commerce and Science streams.
- To provide the platform to the students for all-round development of their intellectual, physical, aesthetic and social potentials.
- To encourage attitudes of integrity, hard work, honesty, fairness and tolerance in students so that they give their best to the society based on human values.
- To inculcate passion for excellence through information and communication technology, industrial exposures and scientific projects.
The distinctive characteristics of the college reflecting the vision and mission statement:
- Highly qualified and dedicated faculty imparts and inculcates the cultural and social values among the stakeholders.
- Adequate and well-maintained infrastructure, well-equipped Laboratories.
- ICT facilities in teaching learning and administrativeprocess.
- Multiple combinations in UG programmes.
- P.G. programmes in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Botany and Zoology, English, Marathi, History, Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Commerce.
- The institution has applied for recognition for Centre of Higher Learning and Research in the subject Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Botany and Zoology.
- Holistic development through sports, NCC, NSS and extracurricular activities.
- The institution organizes programmes of birth and death anniversaries of social reformers.
- The students are encouraged to participate in various activities, such as, seminars, quiz on science, current affairs and essay competition, elocution competition and debate et al. Furthermore, the topics selected for these programmes make the students ponder over the problems of the rural inhabitants. Naturally, the pains taken up are not made in futility, but inculcate the sense of fraternity and nationality in the young minds.
- To provide the facility of higher education to the students coming from inaccessibly remote, rural & backward areas.
- To conduct courses imparting education that inspires students to lead a dignified personal & social life.
- To expose the students, from the rural & tribal areas, to the rationale & scientific attitudes, in addition to the formal courses pertaining to the arts, commerce & science streams.
- To give primacy to the projects, apart from the formal education, that enthuse the students regarding the respect for human force & recognition of the dignity of labour.
- To acquaint the students with the problems of the rustics & with those of the countryside, and inspire them to undertake novel projects with the sole aim of bettering the lot of the common populace.
- To give human touch to the teaching-learning process, and correlate it to the individual progress & social service.
Management
Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora, Anandwan, the Eden Garden for the lame and leprosy-patients, the devoid and the destitute, the deaf and the dumb, was founded by Padma Vibhushan Baba Amte.
Set up in 1949, Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora, Anandwan is probably the only institution on planet that recasts the hidden and untapped energy of the most neglected and least cared segment of humanity in to potential use. Housed in 220 hectares of arid rocky land, Anandwan has grown into colossus. Baba Amte and his equally devoted wife, venerable Sadhanatai, have become the embodiment of love and devotion to the inmates of Anandwan, who were mostly the outcast and the thrown-away. Baba’s name and workaholic fumes have risen today to the celestial horizons. Hope, Dignity and Self-Respect have become the respective synonyms of Rousseau’s Liberty, and Fraternity “Charity destroys, work builds” has become the guiding spirit and Baba has succeeded in weaving a large and well-defined-refined family of orthopedically handicapped, visually impaired, hearing and speech crippled, young school dropouts and abandoned.
Shri G. N. Roy
20/06/1964 – 31/03/1990
Shri L. B. Sainis
01/04/1990 – 30/04/1997
Shri P. L. Shende
01/05/1997 – 31/07/1999
Shri A. M. Dongare
01/08/1999 – 30/09/2003
Dr. P. M. Kalbhut
01/10/2003 – 05/08/2013
Dr. M. C. Kale
06/08/2013 – Till date
Today, Anandwan has grown in to a multidimensional institution that houses 4000 disabled and disadvantaged people on different sites, all engaged fruitfully in 49 divergent and productive traits and disciplines, such as agriculture, industrial production, textile, printing, handicrafts, leather-crafts, fabrication workshop etc.
As permeates through the history, great men never stroll on trodden path. Baba too erected his pavements and trod upon them into varied avenues nursing various sectors. Where there was wound, Baba’s hands were at work. When it was torrid path of knitting India together, he embarked on with the slogan “BHARAT JODO’ and measured the length and breadth of the huge country from the sea to the summit. And when it was the cause of dislocated humanity, in the terrains of Narmada, he did not remain complacent and took up the issue with the overwhelming zeal. Public adulation and global honours are not alien to Baba Amte. To mention a few, Baba Amte is adorned with Padmashree (1971), Magsaysay Award (1985), Padma Vibhushan (1986), U.N. Human Rights Award (1988), Templeton Prize (1990), Gandhi Peace Prize (1999), Dr. Ambedkar International Award (1999) and innumerable degrees (Honoris Causa) are some of the honours showered upon Baba. He continues to be harbinger of love and care.
Management, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Vikas Amte, Secretary, Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Anandwan, is invariably there to offer its caressing hand to the college establishment. Devotion to the cause and utmost precision in task-mastership of the management has always been a source of inspiration to those who matter in the college premises.