Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha
संस्थेची वैशिष्ठ्ये
१. भारतीय संस्कृती आणी भारतीय संस्कृतीची मुल्ये यांचा विचार,प्रचार व प्रसार झाला पाहिजे म्हणजे ’
ज्ञान’
२. सत्य, प्रामाणिकपणा,चारित्र्य,पिळवणुक प्रवृत्तिस आळा,सेवा आणि त्याग हि तत्वे प्रत्यक्ष कृतीत आणणे म्हणजे '
विज्ञान’
३. ज्ञान आचरणात आले कि त्याचे आपोआप विज्ञान होते.एकदा मनुष्य ज्ञानी,विज्ञानी झाला कि तो आपोआप सुसंस्कारीत होईल.
४. सुसंस्कारी मनुष्य हीच समाजाची खरी संपत्ती आहे.नवसमाज हा निर्मीतीचा पाईक आहे आणि तो परमेश्वराचा अविष्कार आहे.
५. परमेश्वराच्या अविष्काराचे प्रकटीकरण म्हणजेच
शिक्षण.
EMBLEM OF THE INSTITUTION
The Emblem consists of Water,Lotus,Earthen Lamp,Burning Flame and Om
Water : Water means life and ripples on it are industry
Lotus : Lotus is as symbol
of indian civilization. The Lotus signifies spotless and clean life.Petals of the
lotus bear on them the word 'Education'.
Earthen Lamp,Flame,Light :
These are symbols of knowledge. It is expected that the flame should kindle another
flame and propogate learning. The petals bear two earthem lamp bears on it the words
'Knowledge and Science means Education'.
Om : Godly letter is resulted
from brilliance of the flame and there you meet god.
‘Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha, Kolhapur’ is one of the few renowned and leading educational institutions in Maharashtra ( India). Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe started toying with his dream-project of founding an educational institute which he did in 1954. He made the resolution of founding ‘Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha’ in a small temple of Lord Muralidhar (Lord, Krishna) situated on the confluence of holy revers the Krishna and the Koyana. He selected equally holy place to begin the sacred mission which, later on, became a life-time work for Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe.
Revered Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe took up the task of the spread of education with the definite objective in mind. His objective was to transform a person not only into a knowledgeable or learned but into a wise, civilized and refined human being. He resolved to inculcate in them priceless human values such as truth, honesty character, anti-exploitation spirit, sacrifice, service and love. These values, he knew, will shape any person into a sensible, refined and responsible citizen and such citizens, in turn will create an ideal and morally strong society rich with character. Bapuji’s very vision of life’ thinking and practice were the result of noble teachings by Swami Vivekanand, the Geeta and the Upanishadas. He was possessed with the thought of using education to transmit these teachings to shape a person into ideal citizens fired with patriotism, morality and sacrifice. He knew that this was a precondition for well behaved, refined society rich with morality; and character. To bring about constructive transformation in society was the main objective of Bapuji while founding this educational institute and he was committed to that.
This educational institute, registered with charity Commissioner under Public Trust Act has been making progress by leaps and bounds, qualitatively and quantitatively, under able guidance of Principal Abhaykumar Salunkhe, the Secretary. He has been striving ceaselessly to set an example of excellent governance, organization and management.
This educational concern has attained the growth to the tune of 22 undergraduate colleges 66 higher secondary schools, 170 secondary schools and 72 other educational units. The institution takes pride in sending over 1000 students to engineering and over 100 students to medical courses very year. This speaks for the impressive performance of the institute. In addition to this, over 2500 students pass out as graduates from different streams every year.
The annual budgets of this second largest education institute in Maharashtra is Rs. 4,00000000/- (rupees four hundred millions). The total number of students taking instructions at various levels in a variety of programmes is estimated to be 200000 (two hundred thousands) and about 7500 teachers have been discharging their pious duty to materialize the dream of late Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe. How can one forget an invaluable contribution made by shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha in the field of education and especially in social transformation in the state of Maharashtra ( India )?
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