Introduction

 

"Where the mind is without fear and head is held high

 Where the world is not broken by narrow domestic walls

 Where there is endless striving for perfection

 Into the heaven of freedom, Father, let my country awake"

 

 These lines from Tagore's poem, universal in appeal and 

 timeless in relevance, are the guiding light of CHETANA.

 Our goal is to produce graduates who will havenot only paper

 qualification showing academic excellence but a mindset  

 which embodies a broad universal outlook with a perfect

 marraige between personal goals and family and social

 commitments. Our very logo speaks out this message from

 the Sanskrut words of wisdom:

 

 

 

 

The Chetana Education Trust, a well known educational body has successfully completed fourty-two years in the field of Commerce and Management Education in Bandra East, a western suburb of Mumbai.

 

This institute was established on 8 September 1969 by Late Shri Madhukarrao Dhanaji Chaudhari, former Education Minister and then Chairman of the Vidhan Sabha, Government of Maharashtra.

 

Late Shri Madhukarrao Dhanaji Chaudhari with a lifelong passion for education with First Class Post- graduate  degree in Commerce and nurtured by the philosophy of Gandhiji and Sane Guruji, had a practical vision to establish an Institution imparting Commerce and Management Education: a fusion of theory and practice, making Commerce graduates employable in the business world and leading a socially productive and meaningful life.

 

 

Bandra East was once a marshy land, reclaimed from the sea. The area was virtually an undeveloped land with no College within a radius of 5 km to boast of. Populated with industrial workers, lower and upper middleclass, government staff and slum dwellers, Bandra East appeared an ideal scenario for Shri M.D.Chaudhari to locate a College bringing Higher Education at the door-step of the common man.

 

Shri G.D. Somani, an industrialist offered a generous donation to raise the College building which was named after the donor’s father, Shri Hazarimal Somani. The College was inaugurated by the then Finance Minister, Central Government,  Hon. Shri Yaswantrao Chavan and the inauguration function was presided over by the then Chief Minister, Maharsahtra State, the Hon. Shri.Vasantrao Naik.