Dr. Panjabrao alias Bhausaheb Deshmukh, the first Agricultural Minister of India, established Shri Shivaji Education Society, Amravati in the year 1932 for the following purposes:
1. to establish, conduct, manage, supervise and take over educational institutions of various kinds for boys, girls and adults;
2. to provide facilities for the acquisition of knowledge and information and the advancement of culture;
3. to undertake and make available facilities for research in all braches of knowledge and to establish institutions for the purpose;
4. to carry on experiments with a view to improving methods of teaching and to establishing institutions for this purpose;
5. to encourage physical culture and to start, conduct or manage institutions for this purpose;
6. to encourage women's education by establishing special institutions like hostels, widows' homes, nursing schools, etc.;
7. to establish hostels for poor boys and girls and to open and conduct orphanages.
8. to co-operate with the government other Societies, institutions and bodies for the purpose of promoting the cause of education and spread of knowledge and culture;
9. to establish, start conduct and manage printing presses for publishing books, periodicals journals and other educational material;
10. to undertaking farming, gardening and to acquire land on lease, or to purchase land for the same purpose;
11. to start other subsidiary activities and institutions such as the establishment of stores, medical aid societies etc.;
12. to help, assist, aid any institution under the management of the Society or otherwise, by advice, guidance and supervision;
13. to organize exhibitions and culture- weeks, etc.;
14. to organize and run tournaments, competitions Olympiads etc.;
15. to undertake publicity and propaganda by all possible means, such as films lectures, debates and demonstrations;
16. to hold, organize, arrange and manage conferences, seminars, Kavi Sammelans etc.;
17. to acquire property, both movable and immovable, to raise funds for carrying out the objects of the Society;
18. to do each, every and all such things as are incidental or helpful or conducive to the accomplishment, attainment, and furtherance of the above objects.