Shree H V P Mandal

Shree H.V.P.Mandal is founded by Vaidya Brother's namely Shri. Ambadaspant & Shri. Anant Krishna Vaidya with their colleagues, freedom fighters on the broader principles of equality, fraternity & social justice. Honorable National leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Dr. Rajendra Prasad visited & blessed this organization. Martyrs Rajguru & D.S. Deshpande were the two illustrious students of this institution. To standardize and popularized India's traditional system of physical culture and develop sport and allied science and employ them strategically towards welfare of the masses, Institute has timely organized various tours in India (J&K, Delhi, Calcutta, Ahmadabad, Lucknow, Amritsar, Panji, etc.) as well as abroad (U.S.A., Berlin, U.S.S.R., Finland, France, Japan, England, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, etc) for Propagation of Indian Traditional sport since year 1928. After Independence, to propagate traditional Indian Sports and Yoga, the Mandal concentrated its efforts on the training of teachers in Physical Education and Yoga, and gradually diversified its activities to the field of Ayurvedic medicine, tribal and school education and Engineering and Technology. The Mandal is the recipient of prestigious "Aadivasi Seva Sanstha Puraskar - 1997 of Maharashtra Government" for its work in tribal regions and the "State Government Award -2002" for Educational institutions. The work of the Mandal has been appreciated by many organizations and received honours in the form of awards and certificates from time to time.German Dictator Adolph Hitler has also honored this Institute with a medal for its breath taking demonstrations in Berlin Olympics Games in the year 1936. Mandal is also active in social services. It has started Shetkari Jagruti Abhiyan for motivating and educating farmers with modern agricultural techniques and stopping them from committing suicide. More than 100000 farmers have been benefited from this program. It has also started Helpline for Amravati localites to solve various matters such as helping Girls against eve teasing and other social problems.