MVM's Panditrao Agashe School or Panditrao Agashe School, is a private, co-educational day school located at Law College Road in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
,
India
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. The institution is a part of the Maharashtra Vidhya Mandal. Maharashtra Vidhya Mandal was founded in 1957 . He was 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.
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
The school's name sake is
Jagdish "Panditrao" Agashe (1936 – 1986) the elder brother of the late
business magnate
A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through perso ...
Shri. Dnyaneshwar Agashe, eldest son of industrialist
Shri. Chandrashekhar Agashe. He served as the managing director of the
Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.
The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. is an Indian sugar company headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Established in 1934, it is one of the oldest companies in India.
History Under Chandrashekhar Agashe: 1934 — 1956
In 1933, th ...
after his father.
See also
*
List of schools in Pune
This is a list of notable schools in Maharashtra, a state in India.
Major cities and towns Ahmednagar
* AES Bhausaheb Firodiya High School, AES Bhausaheb Firodiya Highschool
Akola
* Mount Carmel High School (Akola), Mount Carmel High Sch ...
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Schools in Pune
Educational institutions established in 1957
1957 establishments in Bombay State
Private schools in Maharashtra