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Shri Shivaji College of Arts & Commerce was established in 1963 under the sincere guidance of a great visionary, academician and social reformitst, Dr. Abasaheb Khedkar, the rural development minister of the Govt. Maharashtra.
In the year 1958, Seth Radhakisan Laxminarayan Toshniwal gave a donation of Rs.50,000/- to the B.G.E. Society, Akola to start an independent Science College in his name. The society initially started its faculty of science in Sitabai Arts College with Mathematics Stream. The Biology Section was added in 1966. The faculty of Science was separated as an independent Science College on 1st April 1970 and named after the donor. Thus, the generosity of late Seth Radhakisan Laxminarayan Toshniwal op...