Dr. Bhagwan Abhimansingh Rajput
Principal, Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar College of Arts, Commerce and Science
Situated in the tribal district Palghar, the Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Talasari is established for the bright future of the Adivasi community in this area. An exclusive initiative by the Adivasi Pragati Mandal the present college is incepted with a notion of reaching the highest summit of success across the educational field. Since the pre-independence era, the Palghar district has been majorly inhabited by the tribal community.
Deprived of any social advantages, the tribal community of this area was highly mistreated by the landlords as well as Portugal. For the development of the tribal community Comrade Godutai Parulekar and Comrade Shamrao Parulekar launched ‘Kisan Sabha’ and struggled to provide rights & freedom to the tribal community. Considering the need for appropriate educational development of the tribal community, then-President Comrade L. S. Kom formed Ädivasi Pragati Mandal and started Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar College of Arts, Commerce & Science in Talasari in 1994.
An Impeccable Educational Institution
Initially, the college had only Arts department with a handful of faculties and only a few tribal students were enrolled. But with the keen efforts, soon the Commerce division was introduced in 2010 & subsequently Science department was also introduced in 2011. Taking a step forward to Master’s degree, M. Com. (Advanced Accountancy & Auditing) & M. A. (History) courses were introduced in the year 2014. As a great achievement, this was the first generation of tribal community that was acquainted with Higher educational degree. For the specialization across this domain the subjects like Economics, Psychology, History, Political Science, English & Marathi Language & Literature, Accountancy & Auditing, Management, Marketing, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany