Dr. Ramkishan M. Manjre (M.A., Ph.D)
I/c Principal
Principal’s Message
Dear Parents, students and well-wishers, greetings from SMU family. First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your unwavering encouragement, affection, and concern for the college, which enables and stimulates us to work hard to carry out our mission statement- “Quality Education for the Advancement of the Masses.”
Education is not only the acquisition of knowledge, but also the development of life skills and personality. This is an ennobling process of growth. Education eradicates ignorance and empowers students to think and act morally. It endows and enlarges the horizon of their mind and enables them to earn their livelihood with respect and energizes society. I can confidently assert that we have excelled in every initiative we have undertaken and that we have faced the challenges of achieving quality education together. We focus on uncovering, cultivating, and eliciting student’s latent talents in order to make them not only excellent students but also brilliant human beings.
Our town, Udgir, is a small Tehsil place, located on the borders of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. It is sixty kilometres away from district headquarter Latur. It is located just fifteen kilometres away from Karnataka State border and ninety kilometres away from Andhra Pradesh border. In reality, this area is not yet economically, socially, or educationally developed.
The “Kisan Shikshan Prasarak Mandal” was founded in 1949 with the motto “Bahujan Hitay Bahujan Sukhay” (Welfare and Betterment of the Masses) by a group of people with patriotic and missionary zeal who felt a pressing need to educate underprivileged and socio-economically backward communities in this region. To achieve its goals and objectives, the Kisan Shikshan Prasark Mandal operates an additional 20 institutes, including schools and colleges located in various rural areas. Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, founded in 1968, is one of Kisan Shikshan Prasarak Mandal’s main institutions. Thank you for your interest in this institution, which has witnessed five decades of consistent growth, celebrated its ‘Golden Jubilee’ in 2018-2019, and has accomplished much, making it one of the colleges renowned for its excellence and therefore highly sought after by prospective students.
Shivaji Mahavidyalaya is a college with multiple departments and a 3252-square-meter campus with all amenities. It was formerly affiliated with Marathwada University, Aurangabad, but after Marathwada University’s bifurcation, it became affiliated with S.R.T.M. University, Nanded. The U.G.C. conferred the college 2(f) & 12B status. Establishing and maintaining an institution in such economically, socially, and educationally backward regions without financial support was not a straightforward task hence, this institution had confronted with numerous problems at the initial stage. However, our founding fathers, overcame every crisis with their strong willpower and missionary fervour to accomplish this Herculean task.
Through its junior and senior sections, the college is now regarded as one of the most prestigious institutions of secondary and higher education in the area. In the current academic year (2022-23), the senior college offers 18 academic programmes with a variety of subject combinations and subject selection options. We have three main faculties: Arts, Commerce, and Science, plus one faculty for computer-based professional courses. We have 22 UG 7 PG departments and 4 research centres under which 1,922 students are enrolled and a variety of academic programmes offered by various departments. We also have Y.C.O.M.U. distance education centre, under which 915 students enrolled. Currently, the Sr. college has 32 regular+48 contributory=80 teaching faculties and, 65 administrative and non-teaching personnel on roll.
The departments in the humanities faculty are English, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, History, Library Science, Geography, In Science faculty Physics and Electronics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Dairy Science, Micro- biology departments are there. The commerce faculty has Accounts and Applied Statistics, Management Science & Business Administration, Business Studies, Commercial & Mercantile Law and Business Economics Departments. In Computer based professional courses, we run BCA. In P.G., Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Pol-Science and Commerce departments are working.
In Junior college, 26 regular and 12 contributory teaching faculties are working on roll with 1500 students enrolled in present academic year (2022-23).
The college is active in community services through NSS and NCC and also runs schemes like ‘Earn and Learn’ to help the students. The college have active Parent and Alumni Associations and our alumni include renowned doctors, engineers, politicians, researchers and civil servants.
To keep pace with over changing global scenario, the college is taking co-operation of KSP Management, UGC, University, stakeholders like teachers, students, parents and rest others, involved in the process of imparting education with its mission statement- “Quality Education for the Advancement of Masses”. The college volunteered itself to be assessed and accredited by NAAC, Bangalore and the Peer Teem assessed our college and accorded ‘B++’ grade (83 score) in 2004 for 1st cycle, ‘B’ grade (CGPA- 2.78) in 2015 for 2nd cycle and in the 3rd cycle accredited with ‘A+’ (CGPA- 3.27) grade (2024).
I am very happy with the progress of the college in imparting value-based education, synergized with modern teaching-learning methods to produce a well informed and emotionally sound generation. I am positive that in times to come we will continue this journey with elevated enthusiasm and persistently provide a platform of holistic learning to the young generation of learners.
Remember, success comes to those who work hard and stays with those who don’t rest on past laurels. I wish you all a grand success in your career and prosperity in future life.
Dr. R. M. Manjre
I/c Principal
