MES Abasaheb Garware College, Pune

several eminent educationists of that time, and in 1874, Messrs. Vaman Prabhakar Bhave and Laxman Narahar Indapurkar finally developed the school into an establishment with the motto of "imparting literacy, scientific and industrial instructions to boys of the middle and struggling classes from in and out of Poona and diffusion of useful knowledge in general". Since then, the school in whose premises the Society Office was established, is called the "Bhave Boys School". This seed planted in 1945 is now a large spreading tree, and today has twenty-five Departments across the Science and Arts Faculties, offering more than 30 different academic programmes, including self-financed and autonomous courses. Abasaheb Garware College is the only Science and Arts College of the Maharashtra Education Society. It was established in 1945, and then named as M.E.S. College of Arts and Science, it imparted primary education in languages and social sciences, and a few subjects in science. This seed planted in 1945 is now a large spreading tree, and today has twenty-five Departments across the Science and Arts Faculties, offering more than 30 different academic programmes, including self-financed and autonomous courses