Late Rajarambapu Patil, an active participant of the Indian independence movement, envisioned the educational scenario of independent India when Indians were yet to get the independence.

Rajarambapu, a law graduate and fortunate to have studied at Pune and Vadodara, could see the necessity and urgency of education in rural India to leverage the advantages of independence.

Starting from his village, he, along with his companions, established ‘Azad Vidyalaya’ in 1945 at Kasegaon, in Walwa taluka of Sangli district in Western Maharashtra.

Thus, was born ‘Kasegaon Education Society’. KES had been his sigh for his entire life!

After an untimely demise of Rajarambapu in 1984, his son Shri. Jayant Patil, then 22, took the reins of KES, entering public life. Since then, he has been keenly monitoring its progress…