Shikshana Prasarak Mandali

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The Shikshana Prasarak Mandali, Pune, is one of the most prestigious private educational societies in Maharashtra. It was established around 1904 to promote education and make it easily accessible to all economic classes in Maharashtra.

Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, Lokmanya Tilak, Gopalkrishna Gokhale, N. C. Kelkar and M. M. Datto Vaman Potdar were closely associated with its rapid growth and development.

It now runs about thirty educational institutions in Maharashtra. Ramnarain Ruia College is one of them.

The local managing committee has among its members the Chairman of the Managing Council of the SPM, the SPM's secretary, the Ruia college principal as its convener, three members nominated by the Managing Council, three teacher representatives and one representative of the non-teaching staff of the college.