Tilak Maharashtra University
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1921 |
| Chancellor | Vishwanath Gopal Palshikar |
| Vice-Chancellor | Deepak J. Tilak |
| Location | Pune, Maharashtra, India, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | -- |
Tilak Maharashtra University is a deemed university in Pune, Maharashtra, India. At the suggestion of Mahatma Gandhi, it was established in 1921 and named after the independence activist Lokmanya Tilak.
The origin of the Vidyapeeth dates back to 1921 when, immediately after the demise of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, his follower Mahatma Gandhi mooted the idea of establishing a university in his memory. One of the postulates of the four-fold formula conceived by Lokmanya Tilak was National Education and the other three were Swaraj, Swadeshi and Boycott. The delegates of the first Maharashtra Provincial Conference on 6 May 1921 under the presidency of Shrimat Shankaracharya of Karveer Peeth decided to have National University in Maharashtra. Thus the present-day Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (TMV) was established.
TMV the public-funded university had scholar Shri Shankaracharya Vidyashankar Bharati (alias Dr. Kurtakoti) as its first chancellor. This post has been held by other personalities such as the Sanskrit scholar Bharatacharya Shri. C. V. Vaidya, the first premier of Bombay Presidency Shri. B. G. Kher, Dr. M. S. alias Lokanayak Bapusaheb Aney, a great Sanskrit scholar and a historian Maha Mahopadhyay Datto Vaman Potdar, and Honorable Shri. Y. B. Chavan, Shri. S. B. Chavan, Shri. Shivraj Patil, Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde — all Union Home Ministers.
During the pre-independence period, degrees awarded in the faculties of Arts, Management, Commerce and Engineering as well as the research works in Sanskrit and Ayurveda were world acclaimed and recognized. Similarly, in the post-independence period, the degrees of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth were equivalent to the degrees of other statutory universities.
Though late, in the year 1987 that the University Grants Commission took cognizance of significant work of TMV in the fields of Sanskrit, Ayurveda, Social Sciences and Distance Education, Thereby, on its recommendations, the Government of India conferred the "Deemed to be University" status upon Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth. With this conferment of this status, the Vidyapeeth gained recognition at national level. Since November 2015 Vidyapeeth has got 'B grade' by NAAC.
The concept of non-formal education was first discussed at national level in 1985 and thereby the TMV contributed to this national vision by launching a distance education course (B.A.). TMV takes pride that the distance education programme was launched before the establishment of IGNOU at national level and YCMOU at state level.
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