Majalgaon Vikas Pratishthan was founded by Mr and Mrs Solanke in 2003 to enable them to reach out to the under privileged women and children in Majalgaon taluka in Beed district. In the last 6 years they have set up more than 450 Self Help Groups based on Nobel Prize for Peace winner, Professor Mohmmed Yunnus' theory of the Grameen Bank. They have helped more than 10000 families double or triple their incomes and there are now many women who are now entrepreneurs.

Professor Yunus’ theory of the Grameen Bank has been adapted by the Indian Government to form Self Help Groups (SHGs) or what is commonly known as the Bachat Gat. Mrs Solanke along with her SHG coordinators visits villages in Majalgaon and encourages the women to form Gats. The women in this area are illiterate and poor but are very hard working. Though in many cases they are the main bread earners their self esteem is very low and also their confidence. So the first step was to make them realise that they were very capable and would be able to do anything once they received proper instruction and guidance.

This was the beginning of a revolution in the villages… a much needed one to enable women to realise their potential! In the first 2 months 150 SHGs were formed and soon the entire Taluka was abuzz with this.

Today more than 250 groups are linked with banks and have received loans from them without any collateral. The women use this money mainly to buy goats, cows or buffaloes. This becomes an excellent business for them and their incomes have already doubled. Needless to say that every penny that a woman earns goes towards the food, health and education of her children … unlike men who’s additional earnings are spent on alcohol, women or gambling.

They also run a residential coeducational school in Majalgaon, the Sindphana Public School, which they started with the help of the Majalgaon Cooperative Sugar Factory, Telgaon, with consultation from the Madhavi Kapur Foundation Pune, 5 years ago. This Sugar Factory was started by Pr Prakash Solanke and his father Mr Sunderrao Solanke who was in the Maharashtra State Cabinet for 13 years and also Deputy Chief Minister, Maharashtra. Today this school is running successfully under the able guidance of Ms Megha Chandvankar, an ex faculty of MKF with 17 years of teaching experience in Pune. The student strength is close to 450 with more than 120 boarders.

D Ed
A Diploma in Education (D Ed) college was also started in February 2006 only for girls and 100 girls are studying there currently. A batch of 50 girls has already garduated and they are now doing 6 month internship in the nearby villages. The college is affiliated to the National Council of Teacher Training Bhopal and has  a 6 acre campus and construction of almost 20,000 sq.ft. We have well qualified staff and our endeavour is to impart quality education to these young girls who are will play a major role in the education of our next generation.

B Ed
A Bachelors in Education  (B Ed) college is also in the pipeline and w should be getting approval for it soon. This will be a coeducational institute with a startup batch of 50 students.

BCS
This year also saw the  start of a Bachelors in Computer Science (BCS) and a Bachelors in Computer Applications (BCA) in affiliation with the Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.

ANM  and ITI
A proposal for a Nursing School (ANM) and an ITI is also in the process and we should be starting later this year.

Trustees
Mangala Prakash Solanke - President
Shivanjali Farookh Sethna - Secretary
Chandrakant Ghule - Treasurer
Prithviraj Prakash Solanke
Vinodkumar Arora
Bina Raosaheb Tanpure
Farookh Sethna