About Sanstha

Kharepatan Panchkroshi Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Kharepatan, a regionally renowned and respected educational institution, needs no introduction. Kharepatan Panchkroshi Shikshan Prasarak Mandal was established in the year 1953. The said institution was known as the leading educational institution in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts.

The exemplary sacrifices of the founder-father of the sanstha, freedom fighter Guruvarya Veer Shankarao G. Pendharkar, educationist and his great wife Sau.Vatsalatai are recognized for realizing a noble goal, a noble cause.

Sansthas father Hon’able Freedom fighter Veer Shankarao G. Pendharkar's native village is Harpude (near Devrukh) in Sangmeshwar taluka of Ratnagiri district and actively participated in the "Chale Jaav" movement of 1942 freedom struggle.

Then sir came to Kharepatan for educational work. Being a follower of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, freedom fighter Guruvarya Veer Shankarao G. Pendharkar was committed to imparting education to the common people, so he established this educational institution in Kharepatan in 1953 and started the first high school.

His contribution to education in general is invaluable as he tried his best to provide quality education to the poor, ignorant and all classes of the society. The founder of the institution, the freedom fighter Guruvarya Veer Shankarao Pendharkar was a common man who devoted himself wholeheartedly to education. He fully realized the dire need for the spread of education as the intensity of disparities and distortions in the society can be removed only through education.

He was the hero of the poor, the weak, the underprivileged and left no stone unturned for their upliftment. To remove the suffering and ignorance of the people, to bring the light of hope in their lives, there is no option but education, so he did a great humanitarian work by working hard to educate the people.