Ramniranjan Anandilal Podar College of Commerce and Economics

Rāmniranjan Ānandilāl Podār College of Commerce and Economics, popularly known simply as Podar College or R.A. Podar College, is affiliated with the University of Mumbai, situated in Matunga, Mumbai, India. It is run by the Shikshan Prasarak Mandali also called the S.P. Mandali, which has its headquarters at Pune. The college offers courses in commerce for undergraduate degrees, and the affiliated Wellingkar Institute of Management and Commerce offers postgraduate degrees and postgraduate diplomas in commerce and management.LocationThe College is located in central Mumbai, on Lakhamsi Napoo Road which is on the east side of Mātungā central railway station. The College building is of neo-Gothic style. It is flanked on one side by the famous Ramnivas Ruia College of Arts and Science and on the other side by the Welingkar Institute of Management. All of which are controlled by the Shiksan Prasarak Mandali, PuneHistoryIn 1941, a prominent Marwari Industrialist Seth Rāmdeoji Ānandilāl Podār provided funds of one hundred and fifty thousand rupees—a substantial sum in those times—for establishing the College in the memory of his brother, Rāmniranjan Ānandilāl Podār, giving the charge of running the college to the Shikshan Prasārak Mandali. The College was the first private (non-government) commerce college to be started in Mumbai.