Pune’s MES Garware College of Commerce gets autonomous status

There are several other prominent colleges and institutions which are working to get the autonomous status including--Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Commerce (BMCC), S P College, Pune, Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Commerce (MMCC)

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has conferred the ‘autonomous’ status to Maharashtra Education Society’s (MES) Garware College of Commerce recently. Being one of the oldest and prominent colleges in Pune, the academic autonomy to MES Garware College of Commerce would be useful for students to have a robust learning process for their academic and overall development.

Being one of the oldest and prominent colleges in Pune, the academic autonomy to MES Garware College of Commerce would be useful for students to have a robust learning process for their academic and overall development. (Sanket Wankhade/HT PHOTO)

“After being granted the autonomous status we are committed to train, transform and empower the young minds with relevant knowledge and skills. The college will be playing a constructive role in the social change in the country. Under autonomous education system, it will prepare the learners to organise and plan their schedule to cope up with the practical oriented curriculum,” said Professor Geeta V Acharya, college principal.

While it is not the only college that has got the autonomous status in Pune, in the last few years several prominent colleges from the city had got this status. These include Fergusson College, College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Shivajinagar, Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune and others.

Arun Adsul, former vice-chancellor, SPPU, said, “Every year lakhs of students come to the city from across the country and globe for studies. As this number is increasing every year, there are several prominent colleges which are upgrading in academic and other terms. So they are able to go for the autonomous status and already we have few other private universities other than SPPU which are also having excellent academic courses attracting the students from across the globe.”