Konkan Education Society Alibag

The Konkan Education Society (K.E.S.) is the pioneering educational institution engaged in delivering knowledge to the rural population in Konkan Region of Maharashtra State. The Government of Maharashtra has appropriately recognized our leading society as model/ideal educational institute. (Adarsh Shikshan Sanstha Award 2002) The K.E.S. was established in 1917, the pre-independent period when there were Missionaries (blessed by British-Raj) engaged in imparting religious education through convent schools. Lokmanya Tilak was the Indian nationalist, teacher and activist leader for independent movement in British India and with the goal to improve quality of education for Indias youth, he has appealed to promote a new system of education that taught nationalist ideas through an emphasis on Indian culture to young Indians. Inspired with this ideas, educational activist and social leaders from the Kulaba district (now known as Ragiad district) decided to open an educational institution...