is an educational trust founded on 26th March 1960 by Kannada speaking linguistic minority who originally hailed from Karnataka to manage the existing Kannada Primary School founded in 1957. Ten years later, an English Pre-Primary and Primary School came into existence which in 1976 grew as B.R. Tol English High School. In 1991 VPM’s growth tree had another institution with Jr. College coming into existence. The logic of growth continued with a Degree College of Arts, Science and Commerce coming into existence in 2003. In 1999 as an offshoot of Kannada Primary School, Kannada Balwadi came up. In 1997 to promote professionally useful courses, VPM’s Institute of Professional Studies (Regd) was established while to reach out to school dropouts, in 2000 VPM’s National Institute of Open Schooling came up. The latest educational institution to join the VPM family is: VPM’s National Integration School which began to function from June 2005. Shrikrishna who has been VPM’s life member for a long time and then a senior judge, Supreme Court inaugurated the School formally on 28th June 2005. The NIS is founded with high ideals of promoting national integration with hope that when children speaking different languages and studying in different media like Marathi, Kannada and English together under one shelter, help to reduce linguistic prejudices. The Schools of the VPM are known for academic excellence. Kannada High School is patronized by poorer sections of the society. Yet we had Ms Jyoti Ganagi securing 16th rank in the SSC examination in 2001 without going to any coaching class (She stood second in B.Com in Mumbai University in 2005) B.R. Tol’s English High School for the last 25 years has maintained a consistent record of 100% results. In 2000-01 we had 6 students in the merit list our school being in the II position in the Board among those who secured maximum number of rank holders. This is in the background of every year school gaining one to two students amongst the rank holders. Our Jr. College is attached to the School as such only those who fail to get admission in the degree college join it. Yet, in the last seven years, we had 98% results in Science and Commerce. Vidya Prasarak Mandal (Regd) is the second oldest educational trust founded by Kannadigas in Mumbai. It celebrated its Golden Jubilee of purposeful existence in 2007, year long celebration were inaugurated by then Governor of Maharashtra, Prof. M. Krishna, Former Judge of Supreme Court Justice B. N. Srikrishna presided.
