Judiciary
Main article: Bombay High Court
Mumbai is also home to the Bombay High Court which has jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra, Goa, and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, with the benches being at Nagpur and Aurangabad in Maharashtra and Panaji, Goa.
The Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa enrolled approximately 90,000 advocates on its roll (2009 data). The Bar Council is represented by 25 elected members from the above territory; the Advocate General of each state is an ex-officio member of the Council. This Bar Council elects one representative to the Bar Council of India as its member and also elects a chairman and vice-chairman for the council. The tenure of the entire Council is five years.
[edit]Education and social development
Maharashtra has good human resource development infrastructure in terms of educational institutions—301 engineering/diploma colleges, 616 industrial training institutes and more than 24 universities[25] with a turnout of 160,000 technocrats every year.[26]
It is home to institutions like Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) which developed India's supercomputer, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), University Department of Chemical Technology, College of Engineering-Pune (COEP), Government College of Engineering Aurangabad, Government College of Engineering Karad, Walchand College of Engineering-Sangli (WCES), Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology Nanded (SGGSIE&T) and top management institutions.[26] 50,000 youth trained to take up self-employment ventures every year by the Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MCED), Aurangabad.
The literacy rate is well above the national average at 77.27%.[26] University of Mumbai, one of the largest universities in the world in terms of the number of graduates.[27] The Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay),[28]Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI),[29] andUniversity Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT),[30] which are India's premier engineering and technology schools, andSNDT Women's University are the other autonomous universities in Mumbai.[31]
Mumbai is home to Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), National Institute of Industrial Engineering(NITIE), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) and several other management schools.[32] Government Law College and Sydenham College, respectively the oldest law and commerce colleges in India, are based in Mumbai.[33][34] The Sir J. J. School of Art is Mumbai's oldest art institution.[35] College of Engineering-Pune, established in 1854 is the third oldest college in Asia.
Mumbai is home to two prominent research institutions: the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).[36] The BARC operates CIRUS, a 40 MW nuclear research reactor at their facility in Trombay.[37]
The University of Pune, the National Defence Academy, Film and Television Institute of India, National Film Archives, Armed Forces Medical College and National Chemical Laboratory were established in Pune after the independence of India.
ILS Law College, established by the Indian Law Society is one of the top ten law schools in India. Established medical schools such as the Armed Forces Medical College and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College train students from all over Maharashtra and India and are amongst the top medical colleges in India. Military Nursing College (affiliated to the AFMC) ranks among the top nursing colleges in the world.[38]
University of Nagpur, established in 1923, one of the oldest universities in India, manages more than 24 engineering colleges, 43 science colleges and many colleges in the Arts and Commerce faculties. Nagpur is the home for Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology(VNIT) (also referred to as NIT, Nagpur, formerly known as Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (VRCE), Nagpur) is one of the first six Regional Engineering Colleges established under the scheme sponsored by Government of India and the Maharashtra State Government and is one of the Institutes of National Importance.
Thus the universities in Maharashtra include (alphabatical):
Amaravati University (Amravati), Bharati Vidyapeeth (Pune), Central Institute of Fisheries Education (Mumbai), Deccan College Post Graduate & Research Institute (Pune), Dr.B R Ambedkar Marthwada University (Aurangabad), Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technology University (Lonere), Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (Akola), Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics (Pune), Indian Institute of Technological Mumbai (Mumbai), Indira Gandhi Institute of Develop. Research (Mumbai), International Institute for Population Sciences (Mumbai), Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth (Dapoli), Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (Rahuri), Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth (Parbhani), Nagpur University (Nagpur), North Maharashtra University (Jalgaon), Shivaji University (Kohlapur), Smt. Nathivai Damodar Tackersey Women's University (Mumbai), Solapur University (Solapur), Swamy Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University (Nanded), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai), Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (Pune), University of Mumbai (Mumbai), University of Pune (Pune), Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (Nashik).
The geographical center of India lies at Nagpur, known as Zero Mile Stone. Nagpur is the headquarter for Hindu nationalist organisationRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and an important location for the Dalit Buddhist movement. Nagpur is also the home for National Fire Institution, Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti (promotion of and for spreading the national language, Hindi) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC-Western zone).
Maharashtra in total, has 40% India's Internet users and 35% of PC penetration in the country.[15][39]
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