Somaiya Vidyavihar is an educational campus located in the Vidyavihar suburb of Mumbai.
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Somaiya Vidyavihar was established by the philanthropist Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya in 1959.
The Somaiya Vidyavihar campus comprises 34 individual institutes dedicated in the arts, sciences, management, humanities, philosophies and social sciences as important areas of scholarship, and is spread across a 60-acre (240,000 m2) complex in Vidyavihar, in north central area of Mumbai and a 90-acre (360,000 m2) complex in Sion –in the heart of Mumbai. We have over 27000 students and 1700 teaching staff. Majority of our colleges are affiliated to the University of Mumbai. We also run a few autonomous post-graduate courses, vocational training courses and high schools within the campus as well as in rural India.
As of 2011[update], Somaiya Vidyavihar is presided over by Justice P. N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India.[1] Samir Somaiya, a Cornell University and Harvard alumnus, is the Vice President. Both provide invaluable direction to all the educational institutes within the campus.
K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering and K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) are located in this campus.
VOICES: Your Word, Our Paper is Somaiya Vidyavihar's Campus Weekly newsletter[1] which is released every Monday. It began in December 2003 and has completed four years of publishing and continues to publish the latest news about the campus, opinions on happenings in the city/state/country, courses introduced by different institutes of Somaiya Vidyavihar, etc.Its advisors are Mr.Samir Somaiya and Dr.Meenakshi Rajan.The paper will soon publish its 100th issue.