About College
Medha on bank of the Venna River, 24 K.M. west of Satara and 28 K.M. West of Mahableshwar, is a small town. The village is on the Satara-Mahableshwar road. Medha, the small town is locked in the hilly and remote area of Jawali Tehsil of Satara district. It is popular for production of various types of rice. This crop is monoculture. There is a beautiful temple of the god “Bhairavnath” at the heart of Medha. The place is developed in various fields like education, agriculture, etc.
“Jaywant Pratishthan” was established in Humgaon village on 7th Nov. 2000 with its motto ‘Udhyominahi Siddhanti: karyani na manorathe’. Its Senior College was established in June 2002 with 106 students of B.A. and B.Com. I. This college opened the doors of education to the students of Medha and its adjoining villages. The college is giving quality & value based education to the rural student. Through its curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular programmes, the college and staff has been honestly trying to embrace advanced education, information and communication technology, art, culture and sports and trying to harness the human potential in the process of nation building.
Since its inception, the college has been trying to translate its vision and mission into action. Its dedicated, far seeing and transparent management, its research oriented qualified faculty, student centred teaching-learning process and thrust on information and communication technology as well as its outreach programmes have helped to satisfy, the vision and mission.
History
Jawali is a hilly and remote Tehsil in the district Satara. It is a tehsil divided into several streams by the ranges of the Sahyadri Mountain. Being hilly and scantily populated, people here remained ignorant about the changes taking place around in the developed world. The modern means of communication and transport were yet to be made available for the people when Hon. Shri. Shashikant Shinde founded Jaywant Pratishthan at Humgaon in 2000. The Pratishthan runs a High School, a Junior College, and a Senior College. The Pratishthan functions with the chief objective of all round development of student. The motto of our Pratishthan is “Udyamenahi Sidhanti Karyani na Manorathai” which means to give priority to work instead of only dreaming.
In the age of explosion of knowledge, the students of Jawali Tehsil remained deprived of even the functional higher education. It is with the establishment of Amdar Shashikant Shinde Mahavidyalay, Medha, in 2002 Hon. Shashikant Shinde was able to bring a large group of students deprived of higher education into the mainstream. The first batch of this college began with 82 students. Today more than 1000 students are availing higher education in both the wings senior and junior.