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Maulana Azad College of Arts and Science
Summary
Maulana Azad College of Arts and Science was founded in 1963 by Rafiq Zakaria, who formed a trust called Maulana Azad Education Society to manage the affairs. The college building is the Naukhanda palace, a royal palace of the Nizams, once occupied by Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II.
In the 17th century Peer Ismail Shah a Sufi and tutor of the Mughal prince Aurangazeb laid the foundation stone of a Madarassa at Rauza Bagh Aurangabad where children of noble lineage were to be taught Arabic and Persian. The Madarassa, which later became the mausoleum of its founder fell into the hands of British and was ruined. The mansion, which is a fine blend of Mughal style architecture interlaid with Pathan features, was deteriorating. It caught the eye of Rafiq Zakaria the scholar-politician, who was making rounds of the Aurangabad constituency during the 1962 Assembly Elections. He set about the task of restoring the Madrassa.
Moved by the extreme poverty and backwardness of the people of the region, Zakaria created the Maulana Azad Education Society's campus at Rauza Bagh.
Zakaria started with Maulana Azad College of Arts and Science in 1963 with 144 students. The faculty of Commerce was added and later on, Geology, Industrial Chemistry, Instrumentation Practice, Electronics and Microbiology course were introduced. At the Junior college level vacation courses at the +2 level were introduced.
Not one of the seven districts of the Marathwada region had a single college with using the Urdu language. Therefore, Zakaria started Marathwada College of education in 1970 with 70 seats earmarked for Urdu and the remaining 50 for other languages, particularly Marathi, state language.
The college has a strength of 230; it is one of the biggest colleges of education in Marathwada and has the distinction of obtaining the highest number of merit students in the university examinations.
There was no training in pharmacy in the jurisdiction of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Zakaria started the Kamla Nehru Polytechnic (Pharmacy) in 1974 with a capacity of 60 students.
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