Brief History of the Governing Society
The society was founded on 28th December 1966 by Asgar E. Lakdawala, a poor S.S.C. student at that time. He gathered together a very small group of young boys, each of whom hailing from a poor family and had a spirit of service, sacrifice, friendship and understanding. The sole mission of the group was ‘Educational upliftment of poor and needy students of Bohra Community’. Since 1966, year after year, more and more benefactors from Bohra community realized the importance of the mission set by the founder and today there are about 600 life members and patron members who are patronizing the mission of the society. Basically society aims at the education of the Bohra and non-Bohra Muslim community and extends its facilities to other communities.
In the year 1986 while at Elphinstone College as a lecturer, Prof. Asgar E. Lakdawala – Founder of this Royal Campus, dreamt of establishing a full fledged Arts, Science and Commerce College. For bringing his dream into reality, he along with his likeminded co-workers had no alternative but to go around from pillar to post requesting the generous philanthropists from Bohra Community to donate funds for the college project. Philanthropists realised his true mission and understood the zeal with which he was requesting for funds. They extended full financial support which resulted in establishing a full fledged college in 1989, which is successfully running for the last 29 years on ground floor plus upper three floors. The girl students are given preference in this college as per our objective of promotion of girls’ education. The college has 3000 students on its roll.
The plot of land admeasuring about 10,000 square meters for this Educational Campus was generously donated by Late Ismailbhai Kanga, the then Chairman of Srishti Housing Complex. The society also started an English medium girls’ school in June 1995 in a separate building adjoining the college building. The school has 1200 students on its roll. In 2001, the society started an Urdu medium girls’ school which caters 700 students at present.
The Concept laid down by the Founder
“Ignorance is bliss”, said the ancients. This dictum is no longer acceptable or even applicable today. With society zooming into the jet age and with enormous developments in every field, education has become the be-all and end-all of life. As the Founder rightly says, in the present days the culminating factor of our existence lies in education and life has no value without it. Education tames a brute into a human being. In fact, the truth is that, it is the education, which determines the level of prosperity, welfare and security of the people. Thus he lays stress not only on education or literacy, but on the resulting awareness and self-reliance.
Action taken so far
The message of education has to be taken to the remotest part of the city and to the poorest and most backward tract. Over the years, since the inception in 1986, the society has strived hard to provide at least the basic needs of education so that the students of underprivileged class community can also take necessary good education without an extra burden on the day-to-day expenses of their poor parents.
Every year, about 3000 needy students are benefited by our various schemes.
- We provide School fees, College fees, Books, Uniforms and Stationery to the poor students.
- Royal Educational Adoption plan (REAP) under which needy students are adopted for financial aid to acquire
desired qualification.
In order to provide value based education to larger section of the society, the parent-body acquired a piece of land admeasuring 10,186 sq.m. at Mira Road, Dist. Thane and constructed ground floor plus upper five floors building for the purpose of establishing a college and school thereon.
Accordingly, RHES started Arts, Science and Commerce College in June 1989 which is successfully running for the last 28 years on ground floor plus upper three floors. The girls’ students are given preference in this college as per our objective of promotion of girls’ education. The College has 3000 students on its roll. The society also started an English medium girls’ school in June 1995 in a separate building adjoining the college building. The school has 1200 students on its roll. In 2001, the society started Urdu medium girl’s school which caters to 700 students at present.
Taher Adamali College of Education for Women is established in March 2012 with a view to cater to Muslim girls in particular so that they can grow up as enlightened women who are capable of responding to needs and challenges of their society and contributing to its social, economical and cultural growth.