Latur is a well-known business city. Before 50 years, very few schools were available to provide education in Latur. Educational facility after matriculation was not available. The students had to go to Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, and Aurangabad for higher education. Only the students from rich family were able to seek such education out of Latur. The visionary and education loving people from Latur decided to start higher education institutions.

Manjara Charitable Trust, Latur was established in 1988 under the guidance of Late Hon. Shri. Vilasraoji Dagdojirao Deshmukh, Ex Chief Minister of Maharashtra State. Thinking about the problem of higher education of girl students of economically and socially backward students from rural area, the Trust started Smt. Sushiladevi Dehmukh Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Latur – 413 531 (M.S.) in June 1990. The Trustees look after the day to day functioning of various sister institutions. “Gnyan, Charitrya, Deshprem Sanvardhanasathi Shikshan” is the motto of Manjara Charitable Trust. With this motto, the institution started the Primary level to Higher Level Education in rural and urban area of Maharashtra. The Manjra Charitable Trust has sponsored many educational institutions in the range of Marathwada at the beginning and now it is spreading up all over the State of Maharashtra. The number of educational institutions from K.G. to Graduate / Post Graduate degrees have been started to impart education in the faculties of Arts, Science and Commerce Education, Engineering, Medical, Agriculture, etc. The main object of the Trust is to eradicate the backwardness in the field of education and prepare the youngsters to accept the new challenges of the hours. Formerly, this Trust tried to cover the area of Marathwada and then paved the way to the area of Navi Mumbai. This Trust is entrusted to open new Educational Institutions in different part of the State. Manjra Charitable Trust undertook the new programme in June 1990 and started Smt. Sushiladevi Deshmukh Mahila Mahavidyalaya at Latur in this backward area.

Location

Latur district is in the Marathwada region in Maharashtra in India, located between 17°52′ North to 18°50′ North and 76°18′ East to 79°12′ East in the Deccan plateau. It has an average elevation of 631 metres (2070 ft) above mean sea level. The district may be divided into two regions — the Balaghat plateau and the Northeastern region consisting of Ahmadpur and Udgir. The entire district of Latur is on the Balaghat plateau, 540 to 638 metres from the mean sea level. Latur District is bound by Nanded District to the northeast; the state border with Karnataka to the east and southeast; Osmanabad District to the south-west; Beed District to the west; and Parbhani District to the northwest.

The district lies in the Godavari river basin. Much of the water used in the district comes from the Manjira River, which suffered from environmental degradation and silting in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Other major rivers of the district are the Terna (Tirna), Rena, Manar, Tawarja (Tawarjo), Tiru and Gharni. These rivers and a number of smaller ones are dammed to provide both irrigation and drinking water. Large dams include the Devarjan Dam, Gharni Dam, Masalga Dam, Sakol Dam on the Sol River, Tawarja Dam, and Tiru Dam. On the northern plains of the district there are three main rivers, Manyad, Lendi and Teru.

According to the 2011 census Latur district had a population of 2,455,543, roughly equal to the nation of Kuwait or the US state of Nevada. This gives it a ranking of 181st among the districts of India (out of a total of 640). The district had a population density of 343 inhabitants per square kilometer (890/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.04%. Latur had a sex ratio of 924 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 79.03%. The primary language is Marathi.

Upto the year 2008, the nearest airport was at Aurangabad (290 kms), which is connected to Mumbai. Since 2008 Latur airport services are available for Pune, Mumbai and Nanded. Pune is 337 kms and Mumbai is 497s kms from Latur. It is also connected by rail with a station at Latur and Latur Road (broad gauge). State highways and roads from the district headquarters link to 10 Tahsils. Smt. Sushiladevi Dehmukh Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Latur – 413 531 (M.S.) is located at Khadgaon Road, Near Shivaji Chowk, Latur. It is 2.5 Kms. from the Central Bus station.

Vision, Mission and Goals

Vision

Quality Education for Women Empowerment

Mission

“To Enable the Girl Students to Strive and Thrive in Society”

Goals

To accelerate the movement of women empowerment

To provide higher education to the girl students especially deprived and rural

To inculcate ethical and moral values

To motivate girl students for innovation and creativity

To create self-confidence among girl students

To create employability skills among girl students

To enable girl students to face the challenges in the modern world

To create competitive approach among girl students

Above Vision, Mission and Objectives of the institution are communicated to all the stakeholders, teachers and other people by organizing ‘student-parent-teacher meeting’. We arrange a separate meeting of newly admitted students at the commencement of academic year and the vision, mission and objectives of the institution are communicated to them through the speech of the head of the institution in the welcome ceremony of newly enrolled students. Besides this, the same is also communicated to stakeholders through Management-Teacher Meet, Principal-Student Meet, and Principal-Parent Meet and also through the Meet of alumni association.

Status

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has accredited the college with the status of ‘B+’ with the institutional score of 77.25%. This certification is valid from 16 February, 2004.

Recognition &Affiliation :

The college was started in the month of June, 1990 and has been granted by Govt. of Maharashtra in 1993. The college was temporarily affiliated to Marathwada University, Aurangabad and after establishing the new parent university on 17 September 1994, the college has been granted permanent affiliation by Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded in 2005. The college has been recognized under 2 (f) and 12 (B) of University Grants Commission on 19/05/2005 vide letter No. F.8-244/2004(CPP-I).

Teaching Staff

Teaching Faculty is the important asset of college. The faculty is always aware of the vision, mission and goals of the institution. As per the category reservation and eligible educational qualifications of UGC, Govt. of Maharashtra and Parent University, the institution has fulfilled the teaching posts.

Academic attainments of the staff

Phil.       :  05 Teachers

Ph.D.     :  12 Teachers

One faculty member has been pursuing his Ph.D. in Library Science.

Text books were written by many teachers.

The teachers are engaged in the writing of Articles/research papers.

List of Full-time Teachers (Aided) 

 Office Staff

List of Non-teaching Staff (Aided)