The Mahratta Education Fund (MEF) is a non-profit organization working for the spread of education to poor and deserving students of South Indian Marathi speaking community. [1]

The Fund was founded by a 21-year old lawyer E. Vinayaka Row during a meeting convened on September 15, 1912, hosted by Rao Saheb P. Ramachandra Rao and chaired by Dewan Bahadur K. Krishnaswami Rao Sahib (later Cabinet Secretary, Government of India).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Mahratta Education Fund". mef.4mg.com.
  2. ↑ "A 100-year commitment". The Hindu. 15 October 2012.


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