Indira College of Commerce and Science, Pune

By consistently providing quality education over the past few decades, institutes at Indira Group is now considered as one of the best institutes in Pune. At a time when India was struggling to put its economy back on its feet, after the nation having pawned the “family jewels” just to keep afloat, Dr. Tarita Shankar sensed that education too would have to become more broad based and more vocational in nature if India was to stand up to the world competition in quality and price for its products, The then Finance Minister had prescribed for the economy and so, in 1994, began a saga of growth and quality in education; a story that is just reaching its zenith with 14 full fledged Institutes registering a strong presence on Pune’s educational horizon. Since inception, the Institutes managed by SCES, have maintained high academic standards and have successfully provided trained manpower to the industrial and services sector of the country. These institutes are now listed amongst the top colleges not just in Pune, but also in Maharashtra and India.

With a modest strength of 60 students pursuing a single course, SCES has grown steadily and today boasts of 14 Institutes, having more than 8000 students from all over India pursuing multi-disciplinary, graduate & post-graduate programs. The objective of the institute is providing ‘Management education in a corporate environment’, has been possible due to the sincere and dedicated efforts of the members of SCES, who have invaluable experience in varied areas like academics, industry, service and social-world.

In an ever changing globalised world, we can truly empower our youth by teaching them to embrace their individuality and uniqueness while appreciating the fact that it is in our differences and diversities that we find harmony and complementary living. The amalgamation of these two simple ideas encapsulates the perspective behind Power in We. The ‘We’ way is about learning to depend on one another with gratitude and humility while embracing our responsibility to be our best for them in return. By providing a platform that embraces people from diverse backgrounds who constantly work together to play their unique part, we foster appreciation of collective unity and diversity. This message of collaboration and collective unity is a common thread shared by all at Indira. EVERYBODY IS SOMEBODY and is driven by the motivation to strive to be the best we can be, lift and cooperate with one another. And in doing so we become the dream team that we were meant to be- our faculty, students and corporate partners, each entity stepping up and complementing the other to attain individual and common goals. We work towards creating a workforce that lives and breathes the same spirit. For we believe, it is truly all for you and you for all.

The well-architected campus is spread over 5 acres with independent departments, spacious classrooms, well equipped library with a vast collection of books, latest journals and periodicals and a huge collection of CD’s, laboratory with all new acquainted technical configurations. A well designed auditorium having capacity of 540 persons with all new technical equipments is the main highlight in which various programs i.e. academic and cultural are carried out, hostels for girls and boys having capacity of approx 690 students. Sports facilities are also availed by students which comprises of a sports room in which Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess, Bow and Arrow and various other games are played by students. Extra-Curricular activities which boost the self-confidence of students and brings out the creativity and talent in the students are carried out which comprises of participation of students in various competitions in other colleges. Debating Competition is organized every year in the memory of Late Shri Shankarrao Wakalkar, famous educationist. Gusto is a Management and IT Tech festival which is full of Energy, Excellence & Power at Par with huge number of participants from various colleges. Tech Savvy, an interclass ‘C’ language programming competition and ‘PI Approximation’ Day Math’s Quiz Competition ‘which is observed on July 22, due to π being roughly equal to 22/7 is organized every year. Co-Curricular activities include National Service Scheme (NSS) whose aim is to strengthen the student interest for rural society as well as participation in social activities that build India. Since inception, the Institutes managed by SCES, have maintained high academic standards and have successfully provided trained manpower to the industrial and services sector of the country.The year 2015-16 was celebrated by the College as its Silver Jubilee Year. The college has done some path breaking work in making education accessible to the minorities and weaker sections of society. Thus today at 25 years the College stands proudly amongst the leading educational institutes of Pune.