Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil

Born:22 September 1887

Died: 9 May 1959

He born in Kumbhoj, Kolhapur, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India.
A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society.
He played an important role in educating backward castes and low-income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn.
He was a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth seeker’s society), founded by Mahatma Jotirao Phule.
The people of Maharashtra honored him with the sobriquet Karmaveer (King of actions) and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959 in India.
While employed in the Kirloskar factory at Kolhapur, Bhaurao began working for the Satyashodhak Samaj.
In a meeting of Satyashodhak Samaj, held at Kale near Karad, a resolution passed that in order to run the Satyashodhak movement successfully it would be necessary to educate the Bahujan Samaj.
Accordingly, Bhaurao Patil established Rayat Shikshan Sanstha at a small village named Kale, on 4 October 1919.
This society focused on the children of the masses, so it was named Rayat, the Marathi word for “masses”.
During his lifetime, the Sanstha created thirty-eight cosmopolitan boarding schools, 578 voluntary schools, six training colleges, 108 secondary schools, and three colleges.