Laxmanrao Apte Junior College

In the city of Pune, which is well known for its cultural and educational heritage, Vidya Mahamandal is an educational institute, imparting quality education to about Two Thousand students from varied backgrounds every year for the last many years.

 

Vidya Mahamandal Sanstha was established on 1st December 1961 by a small group of enthusiastic youths, who had very different ideas and views about giving education with an objective of an all-round development of the child as a good human being.

 

The dream was timely supported by late Shri. G. L. Apte, an eminent lawyer and writer who donated a huge piece of land on Apte road in the memory of his father late shri. Laxmanrao Apte. He was the president of the Pune municipality and was a famous lawyer of his time. Our trustee late Shri. Vasantrao Apte is the grandson of Laxmanrao Apte was one of the founder members.

 

Today we witness a total of Seven educational offshoots of the Vidya Mahamandal standing on a campus big enough to house them all, but the beginning of this giant institution was small and humble. The Vidya Mahamandal made its forty into the educational field by establishing the "Vidya Mahamandal Prashala" in the year 1962. Initially, the classes of this school were held in the tiny garage belonging to the Apte Family, while the school building was built. Late Balasaheb Bhole and the Late Madhavrao Apte, well-wishers of the Vidya Mahamandal, gave priceless help by providing financial support for the building, which was completed in the year 1968.