About VMPKP
Built for the children
of this coast.
Who we are
An educational ecosystem.
V. M. Patil Krushi Pratishthan runs five colleges — design, pharmacy, agriculture, hospitality and law — from a single campus, the Gurukul Shikshan Sankul. It was set up for the education of tribal, farming and fishing-community children of the Palghar coast, and it still is.
Every college the trust has opened teaches a qualification that would otherwise mean leaving the district. The campus went to the students, rather than the other way round.
Our story
Since 2008.
Dahanu taluka is a coastal belt of chikoo orchards, paddy and fishing villages. Families here long had to choose between keeping their children at home and sending them to Mumbai or Vapi for anything beyond school. The trust was formed to remove that choice — and thousands of students from fishing, farming and tribal communities have passed through it since.
It began in 2008 with a single agriculture polytechnic, Krishi Tantra Niketan. Design teaching followed, then the pharmacy and law colleges. Each was added to the same ground at Asangaon, so that a student can move between a library, a hostel, a workshop and a laboratory without leaving the campus.
“The campus went to the students, rather than the other way round.”
The founders
V. M. Patil Krushi Pratishthan was established in 2008 by Mr. Milind Madhukar Patil and Mr. Vikas Madhukar Patil, with the development of poor and tribal children in mind.
The trust credits its foundation to the efforts of the Patil family, and in particular to Shri. Madhukar Narayan Patil and Mrs. Manini Madhukar Patil.
वि. म. पाटील कृषी प्रतिष्ठान
The trust is known locally by its Marathi name.
Vision
Vision
To be a centre of professional education and community development that brings every generation of learners on the Palghar coast within reach of a meaningful career — without having to leave home.
Mission
Mission
- 01Create an atmosphere in which the zest for learning skills thrives.
- 02Train students not only to be professionals, but people of values and social awareness.
- 03Teach, close to home, the qualifications that would otherwise mean leaving the district.
- 04Serve the farmers, growers and women of the surrounding villages — not only enrolled students.
Core values
What we stand for.
- 01
Access
Professional education within reach of tribal, farming and fishing-community families.
- 02
Practical skill
Learning by making, testing and growing — in studios, laboratories, kitchens and fields.
- 03
Values
Graduates who are professionals and people of values and social awareness.
- 04
Service
Work for the farmers, growers and women of the villages around the campus.
- 05
Respect for the land
A lasting commitment to agriculture and the people who depend on it.
- 06
Togetherness
Five colleges, one campus and one trust — sharing a library, a hostel and a bus route.
Educational philosophy
Three things the trust holds to.
- 01
Education where the students are
Every college the trust has opened teaches a qualification that would otherwise mean leaving the district. That is the whole design: the campus went to the students rather than the other way round.
- 02
Skills, not only certificates
Studios, workshops, laboratories, an orchard and a nursery are all on site. Students spend their time making, testing and growing things, not only reading about them.
- 03
The village is part of the campus
The soil laboratory, the nursery, the ripening chamber and the garment training exist for farmers and women who are not enrolled anywhere. The trust counts them as its work too.
Community focus
Beyond the campus.
A mobile soil laboratory that has served more than 25,000 farmers, a nursery, polyhouse training, a cold storage and ripening chamber, garment skills training for women and an ambulance for nearby villages.
Our community workHistory
Milestones.
2008
The trust is founded
Milind Patil and Vikas Patil establish V. M. Patil Krushi Pratishthan for the education of poor and tribal children of the Dahanu coast.
2008
Krishi Tantra Niketan opens
The agriculture polytechnic becomes the trust’s first institution, teaching a three-year Diploma in Agriculture affiliated to Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli.
2014
Design education arrives
Design teaching begins on campus under S.N.D.T. Women’s University, opening a professional route for women from the surrounding villages.
2017
Swati Patil College of B.Design
The trust opens the eighth girls’ design college in the country, teaching a four-year degree affiliated to S.N.D.T. Women’s University.
—[Official information to be added]
Pharmacy and hospitality
Y.N.P. College of Pharmacy and Manubhai Mehta College of B.Sc. Hospitality Studies join the campus.
2025
Tatyasaheb Kore College of Law
The law college begins its academic journey, teaching the three-year LL.B., affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
Today
Five colleges, one campus
Design, pharmacy, agriculture, hospitality and law are taught side by side at the Gurukul Shikshan Sankul, alongside the trust’s soil laboratory and community programmes.
Leadership
Guided by experience.
Portrait to be addedChairman & Co-founder
Mr. Milind Madhukar Patil
- Portrait to be added
Vice Chairman & Co-founder
Mr. Vikas Madhukar Patil
In their words
Recognised by the state.
“प्रामाणिक प्रयत्न, समाजाचे कल्याण व्हावे, हे उद्दिष्ट ठेवुन कार्य चालू आहे. मिलिंद पाटील व सहकारयाना मन: पूर्वक शुभेच्छा!”
Shri Eknath Shinde
Cabinet Minister, Government of Maharashtra
“'गुरुकुल शिक्षण संकुल' ग्रामीण व शहरी, किनारपट्टी भागातील अतिशय सुंदर प्रयोग, माझ्या मन: पूर्वक शुभेच्छा !”
Shri Balasaheb Thorat
Cabinet Minister, Government of Maharashtra
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