Shivaji University, Kolhapur

Shivaji University, located in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, was established in 1962 as a state university. It is named in honour of Chatrapati Shivaji and was inaugurated on 18 November 1962 by Dr. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India. Yashwantrao Chavan and Balasaheb Desai played a leading role in founding the university, which has a campus spread over 853 acres (345 ha). The university publishes an online monthly bulletin called Shiv-Sandesh, highlighting its various activities and programmes, while Madhyamvidya and Media Spectrum are private distribution newspapers produced by students of the M.A. Mass Communication Department. One of its affiliated institutions, the Arts College in Savlaj, was founded in June 1991 to serve rural students and became permanently affiliated to Shivaji University in 2003; it was later renamed Shri Raosaheb Ramrao Patil Mahavidyalaya in 2009 and received a B grade from NAAC in 2012. The university also houses the Barr. Balasaheb Khardekar Library, named in 1981, which holds over 310,000 printed documents and subscribes to more than 298 national and international journals, alongside access to thousands of electronic journals through the UGC/INFONET Digital Library consortium.