I. PREFACE
The Establishment of SMT. Ratnprabhadevi Patil Mahavidyalaya Bawada in the year June 2009 is an excellent event and an important step undertaken by Shree Shivaji Education Society in the field of Higher Education in the rural aria of Indapur Tahsil in the valley of Nira- Bhima rivers .
The college is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune. Arts, Commerce and Science degree courses are run by the college. There are Marathi and History Departments run by Arts faculty and Botany department is run by Science faculty in the College.
The college is situated on Indapur –Sangola state Highway in a historical village Bawada.The college is implementing many co-curricular activities for the development of rural youth. The college has a vision to make the student Responsible Citizens having a strong and sensible mind to face the challenges of life in every field. The college also aims at imparting skill oriented education to our students to make them confident and competent in the global India.
II. INTRODUCTION
Shrimati Ratnaprabhadevi Patil Mahavidyalay Bawada Tal- Indapur in Pune district is run by Shri Shivaji Education Society Bawada which is established by Late Shri Shankarao Bajirao Patil on the 18th December 1952. It is an Educational Society having various educational branches in rural area of Indapur.
Shrimati ratnaprabhadevi Patil Mahavidyalay is an academic institution established in in 2009 at the South East region of Pune district. It is situated on Indapur Sangola state highway 22 km away from Indapur City. The college is established in an ancient historical village named Bawada the population of the village is about 20000. In this village there are many old temples having Hemmedist architecture. There are four temples of Lord Shiva called the kaleshwara temple, uttareshwar temple, Somnath Temple and Vajreshwari temple. One of these Uttareshwar temple is located in the college campus college campus area itself. There are also to another temples which are worshipped as Gramdevata of Goddess Padmavati and Lord Bhairavnath. Bawada village is 6 km away from the famous beautiful religious place Nira narsingpur which is the situated on the Confluence of Bhima and Nira rivers. There is a large attractive Ancient Temple of Lord Narasimha and Goddess Lakshmi beside the Confluence of the two rivers Nira and Bhima. There is also scientific importance about this place. The scientist had studied about this area and it is said that the temple of Narsimha is the middle point of the Earth. There are many scientific evidence about that this is one of the the Geographic truth which also attracted many people to visit Nira narsinhpur. It is also said that many Munis and Devotees has visited this place like Maharshi Vyas, Swami Samarth Ramdas and also Lord Shri Rama started his Yatra after killing Ravana from Neera Narsinghpur. Bawada is 145 km away from Pune and 32 km away from the Ujani dam constructed on Bhima river. Indapur Tahsil is a dam affected area in which 22 villages have been displaced due to the construction of ujani dam.
The college was established in 2009 by Shri Shivaji Education Society since then it has become a well-known academic institution with in a short period of time. This college has contributed mostly in the field of women's education as it was established as the girl’s college specially but from 2019 it has started coeducation. The college has created many outstanding brilliant students working in various fields in government and provided sectors. This college has contributed much for the empowerment of women in rural area. It has contributed in creating confidence, economic Independence and global competence in rural youth who are deprived from the opportunities of Higher Education.
Vision
“Saraswatmupasmahe”
The collegevision which is Saraswatmupasmahe refers to the goddess is of knowledge‘Saraswati’. It refers to worshipping the Goddess of knowledge. The institutionbelieves that to worship goddess Saraswati means to worship knowledge andknowledge has the Supreme Power to transform the world and human life.It alsosuggest the radiance of life by the power of knowledge
The institution also has a vision to makethe student responsible citizen having a strong and sensible mind to face thechallenges of life in every field.The vision is to impart skill orientededucation to our student to make the extremely confident and to become goodcitizen of the nation.
OURMISSION
1. Ourmain goal is to serve the rural population and project every rural youth as themost competent individual with up to date knowledge.
2. Our dream is touplift the rural youth in all respects.
3. Ourprimeobjectiveistoimpacthighereducationalfacilitiestothepublicingeneralandinrural youth specially & to implement social through education service toraise living standards in rural area
4. Ouraim is to bring the girl students of this area into the main stream of HigherEducation.