Panditrao Agashe School

MVM's Panditrao Agashe School or Panditrao Agashe School, is a private, co-educational day school located at Law College Road in Pune, India. The institution is a part of the Maharashtra Vidhya Mandal. Maharashtra Vidhya Mandal was founded in 1957 . He was the one of the first Maharashtrian in Pune to start an English Medium School. He is also renowned for his English into Marathi and Marathi into English dictionaries.[1][2] The school caters to pupils from kindergarten up to class 10 and the medium of instruction is the English language. The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Pune which conducts the SSC Examinations at the close of class 10. The school is divided into three sections viz. pre-primary, primary and secondary.

Panditrao Agashe School
Location
Pune
,
Maharashtra

India
Coordinates18.517340°N 73.830259°E / 18.517340; 73.830259
Information
TypeCo-educational
Established1957
Key peoplePanditrao Agashe
CampusLaw College Road
Houses     Blue,      green,      red,      yellow

Panditrao Agashe

The school's name sake is Jagdish "Panditrao" Agashe (1936 – 1983) the elder brother of the late business magnate Shri. Dnyaneshwar Agashe, eldest son of industrialist Shri. Chandrashekhar Agashe.[3] He served as the managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. after his father.[4][5]

See also
  • List of schools in Pune

References
  1. Panditrao Agashe School students learn about Kargil War
  2. New English school, Panditrao Agashe school emerge winners at AWIM
  3. Ranade, Sadashiv (1974). Agashe Kula-vr̥ttānta (in Marathi). p. 375. LCCN 74903020. OCLC 20388396.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. Kothari's Economic and Industrial Guide of India. Kothari. 1 January 1978. p. 37. Directors : Shankar Laxraan Limaye (Chairman), Dnyaneshwar Chandrashekhar Agashe, Gajanan Hari Sabnis, Vinayak Krishna Sathe Jagadish Chandrashekhar Agashe, Govind Narhar Joshi, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh
  5. Kothari's Economic Guide and Investors' Handbook of India. Kothari. 1 January 1969. p. 1687. FOUNDED in 1934 at POONA. Directors : Shankar Laxman Limaye (Chairman), Dnyaneshwar Chandrashekhar Agashe, Gajanan Hari Sabnis, Vinayak Krishna Sathe, Jagadish Chandrashekhar Agashe,
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