The Shikshan Prasarak Mandali, Pune, is one of the private educational societies in Maharashtra.
It was established in 1883 with the aim of imparting western education in Marathi language but without any help from the then British government.
[1] Lokmanya Tilak, Gopalkrishna Gokhale, N. C. Kelkar and Datto Vaman Potdar were closely associated with its rapid growth and development.
[citation needed] The society runs about 40 educational institutions in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
[2] This article about a university or college in Maharashtra, India is a stub.