Rural Foundation, Nandurbar Sanchalit
SENIOR SCIENCE COLLEGE, AKKALKUWA
Tal. Akkalkuwa Dist. Nandurabr-425415
Affiliated to Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon
Established In
1st September 2003
The organization, Rural Foundation Nandurbar is an NGO, actively work in the field Water Shed Management and water harvesting system. The founder President of the organization, Shri. Prakash Babu Patil with a liberal aim of transmission of higher education in the students of socially and economically backward, rural and hilly area; established Science College in Akkalkuwa, District- Nandurbar.
RFNS, Senior Science College, Akkalkuwa was established in 2003. This college got its affiliation from the North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon (MS) and started its journey with Science Stream. It is only one Science College in the tehsil, so grant in aid in 2012-13 by The Maharashtra State Government. Prior to 2014, the college has shared building and campus with other institute of the RFNS society. But now, college has its own separate building in the campus. The entire infrastructural development of the institution depends on management funding.
Our college is located at Sorapa, Tehesil-Akkalkuwa, District- Nandurbar, which is the north- west part of Maharashtra near the borders of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Sorapada is a tribal village in Akkalkuwa tahsil, majority of the population are from tribal, socially and economically backward sections of Society. Sorapada is located in hilly area of Satpura ranges which is on Ankaleshwar-Burahanpur State Highway. It is about 50 km away from the district place and is well connected by state highway and railway. The nearest railway stations on the main route are Nandurbar, Jalgaon (C.R.), and Surat, (W.R) while, the airports are Vadodara (Gujarat), Aurangabad (M.S) and Indore (M.P).
Despite facing a lot of problems in the way of growth, the college is making effort to impart quality education and helping the community of this comparatively backward region. The college has permission of only one division of 60 student. For current academic year here are about 147 students on its roll with eight full-time teachers excluding principal, one librarian, and eleven members of non-teaching staff.
The members of teaching and non-teaching staff, are truly devoted to the fulfillment of the expectations and aims and objectives of the President. The college is keenly interested in motivating the teachers for doing M. Phil, Ph. D. and research papers. First and foremost primacy of the institute is to develop all round personality of tribal students by applying various innovative ideas, teaching skills, new techniques and better understanding of our strengths and weaknesses.