Karmayogi Babasaheb Keshavrao Deshmukh

Babasaheb firmly believed, “The root cause of Penury and darkness in the lives of peasants is lack of education.” and “the level of education determines the standard of a society.” The girl children in those days were deprived of any source of education. Ironically, the social strata move up only when the girl in a family is well-educated. In pursuit of a solution, Baba Saheb Deshmukh had held discussions at length with his contemporaries and reformers. Finally, a spark was lit by Maharshi Karve’s work, an idea shaped in his mind and Babasaheb moved his first step to uplift the masses through education. A school, he started in a couple of rooms eventually developed into a huge educational campus spread across 200 acres, in the village Sagroli, located at the tail end of Maharashtra. ‘Knowledge is one that liberates’ and thus was materialized.