Rayat Educational Institution: Rayat Shikshan Sanstha is an important and big educational institution of Maharashtra. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil established the Rayat Educational Institution with the aim of providing education to the children of Bahujan community. Today is a very important day from the point of view of Rayat Educational Institution. Because today is the foundation day of the ryot. On October 4, 1919, Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil founded the Riyat Shiksha Sansthan at Kale in Karad taluka of Satara district. Rayat Education Institute was established on the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashami.
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, in the meeting of Satyashodhak Samaj in Kale village, proposed to set up an educational institution named ‘Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’ for the education of the children of Bahujan community. It was approved unanimously. Then on October 4, 1919, on the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashami, a ryot educational institution was established in Kale. The farmer who has his own land is called ‘Rayot’. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj used to address his subjects as ‘Rayat’. Therefore, the educational institution established for the education of children of Bahujan community in rural areas was named ‘Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’.
Karmaveer’s ideology is that there should be no village without a school.
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil’s ideology was that there should be no village without a school and there should be no school without a trained teacher. As a pre-requisite for the spread of primary education in the Satara district, they needed to produce suitable teachers. In 1921, at a conference of primary teachers of the Bahujan Samaj held at Angpur in Satara district, Bhaurao announced that he would start a training college at Satara. These promises were fulfilled in the year 1935. In that year Ryotted Education Institute was registered. The banyan tree was made a symbol of the institution. In 1935, Bhaurao started a training college named ‘Silver Jubilee Rural Training College’ at Satara. That is today’s Mahatma Phule Teacher’s School. It was the first training college in the state to be started by a private educational institution for this purpose. She started Jijamata Shikshak Vidyalaya in Satara in 1942 for the training of women teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi praised it
In 1924 Ryot Education Institute was shifted from Kale to Satara city. A mixed hostel was started here for students of all castes. This hostel was named ‘Shri Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Boarding House’ by Mahatma Gandhi in 1927. Seeing that here children of all castes eat together, work and study together, Gandhi appreciated them. From 1933 onwards, the hostel was given an annual assistance of Rs 500 by Gandhiji’s Harijan-Sevak Sangh.
Bhaurao founded ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji College’ in Satara in 1947
Bhaurao opened ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji College’ in Satara in the year 1947. This college was also free and residential. Poor students started pursuing higher education independently. The ‘Earn and Learn’ scheme started taking root. Bhaurao took higher education in rural areas by opening ‘Sadguru Gadge Maharaj College’ in Saidapur in Karad taluka in 1954. In 1955, he opened a training college for graduate teachers in Satara. Later its name was changed to ‘Azad College of Education’.
Rayat Education Institute has 42 colleges and 439 high schools
The network of Rayat Shikshan Sanstha is spread all over Maharashtra. Rayat Educational Institute has 41 colleges. So there are 439 high schools. College 27 hostels for boys, 160 higher secondary schools, 17 agricultural colleges, 5 technical colleges, 5 English medium schools, 8 D.Ed. Colleges, 45 primary and pre-primary schools, 68 hostels for school children, 8 ashram schools, 58 ITIs and other such institutions totaling 679 institutions. More than four and a half lakh students are studying in this raiyat educational institution. About Ryot Educational Institute by Evles Rope Lavielle, Its Velu Gela Gaganwari Abhang is applied accurately. Today Karam has become a big ryot tree.
Objectives of Ryot Educational Institute
To create interest in education and promote it in Bahujan Samaj
To provide free education to the poor children of backward classes
To create love between students of different castes and religions
Explaining the importance of unity through action
Strive to make all children thrifty, self-reliant, humble and energetic
To make students self-reliant through earn and learn scheme
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