Latthe Education Society’s
॥ सम्यग्दर्शन, सम्यग्ज्ञान, सम्यग्चारित्र्य ॥
Latthe Education Society’s
The vision of the institution is to discriminate higher education to the rural students at a low and affordable cost, not compromising with the quality parameters of national education program and to inculcate committedness and social responsibilities among the students.
🏆 MISSION
To impart Quality education to the students coming from peripheral areas and to conduct various curricular, Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to enhance the quality in the education and to ensure global standards.
🎯 GOALS & OBJECTIVES
To contribute to the sustainable development and improvement of society.
To impart qualitative and valuable services in the field of higher education to the students of Sangli city and near villages.
To abolish the superstitious attitude and to develop scientific attitude in the students.
To provide job and skill oriented education.
To develop the all-round personality of the students.
To provide higher educational facilities to economically and socially backward students.
To develop innovative and research attitude in the students as well as teachers.
To provide guidance for ‘Career Development’
To create responsible and respectable citizens.
Smt. Kasturbai Walchand College of Arts & Science, Sangli, is established on 1960 and permanently affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur. It is one of the progressively growing branches of Latthe Education Society, Sangli and imparting knowledge to the masses of the area. It is established in heritage building with clean and green campus.
It has both Senior as well as Junior Wing. The College is one of the leading colleges of the Shivaji University jurisdiction. The College was awarded by the UGC New Delhi as a “College with Potential for Excellence”. It is located in the heart of the city. To facilitate teaching and learning, the college is having good infrastructural facilities with four floored building. The ICT enabled classrooms and Seminar Halls, well equipped laboratories, separate building for department of sports and physical education, Indoor Stadium, Outdoor sports facilities, Ladies Hostels, a big auditorium, separate building for department of Chemistry, Computer Science, Microbiology and Biotechnology etc are the strengths of this college.The college is having rich library with renowned facilities of OPAC and Library on the Web as well
Keeping pace with the Vision and Mission of the institution, along with the Graduation Programs in Arts and Science faculties, the college has introduced Post Graduate Programs and Research Programs as well. The College offers the programs such as B.A., B.Sc. B.Sc.(Biotechnology Entire) and B.Sc.(Computer Science Entire) etc at Undergraduate Level. The departments such as Physics, Electronics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Marathi, Hindi, English, Psychology, History, Sociology, Political Science, Geography, Economics etc are promisingly contributing to ensure excellence in the quality education. The College runs 17 Post Graduate Programs out of which 8 are of Arts and 9 are of Science faculty. Innovative programmes such as M.Sc. Embedded Technology, M.Sc. Data Science, M.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Biotechnology etc are introduced in the college to keep pace with the global needs. Moreover, the college is having recognized Research Laboratories and Research Guides as well.
The faculty members of the college are working as Chairman/Members of various Bodies and Authorities of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur and contributing to curriculum enrichment. The college is having 30 faculty members with Ph.D. degree and 09 recognized Research Guides. The faculty members of this college are engaged in research activities and undertaken research projects of various agencies such as ISRO, DST, DBT, UGC etc. Significant number of research papers have been published through peer reviewed journals of international relevance. To expose the students and faculty members to the recent developments, college is frequently organizing conferences and seminars of National level. It is proposed to introduce the special chapter of NPTEL and SWAYAM in the college.
The “Kasturi Lab”, emphasizing Soil analysis, Water analysis, Plant Tissue analysis and Fertilizer analysis etc, is one of Outreach Programs of the college. It provides consultation services to the agriculturists of the area as well. The training and placement cell is playing vital role in arranging placement camps. The NSS, NCC, Cultural and Sports departments of the college is dedicatedly engaged in personality development of the students. Department of Sports has inculcated sports culture not only in the college but university jurisdiction as well. The extension activities carried out by these departments in collaboration with GOs and NGOs are commendable.
Honor to Late Annasaheb Latthe, Latthe Education Society is established in 13th June 1951. Annasaheb Latthe was social catalyst who devoted all his mind, money and heart to education specially to girls and backward classes. The seed of LES was planted in 1951 and it was nurtured by many personages and patrols. The vigorous efforts of Principal G. K. Patil and Smt. Kalantre Akka germinated the seed into sapling. As Smt. ‘Kalantre Akka’ bestowed five acres of land of ‘Shravikashram’ and entrusted three branches, ‘Gandhi Shishuvihar’, ‘Kasturba Junior College of Education and Primary School to Latthe Education Society. During last seventy years the society is pervasively growing in Western Maharashtra and North Karnataka States through various branches. Recently, about 25000 students and 1500 Faculty members are devoting in the process of teaching and learning through 42 branches.
Latthe Education Society is providing education from KG to PG and Research as well. The society is having Arts, Science, Commerce, Law College, Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Polytechnic College, College of Education, Medical College, BCA, BCS, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Computer Science, ITI, Agricultural College, Primary Schools, Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools, English Medium School etc. branches. Latthe Education Society, Sangli is always putting relentless efforts for benefit of both students as well as teachers by organizing various Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Training Programmes on various cutting age issues. The branches of LES are enabled with ICT facilities, Computers and Sophisticated instruments to ensure quality education. Moreover, sophisticated instruments for research is also made available. The scheme such as ‘Nirmal Jevan Abhiyan’, CET, NEET, Guidance Centers, Competitive Examinations, Online Teaching Learning, Enriched Libraries, Library on web etc. Latthe Education Society is playing pioneering role in dissemination of education in West Maharashtra and North Karnataka States