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Educationist and laminitis of Socio Economic Cultural Association of Bijapur (SECAB) Shamsuddin A. Punekar died successful Vijayapura connected Tuesday. He was 90.
SECAB runs respective schools and colleges successful that district.
Punekar was suffering from age-related ailments, household sources said.
He is remembered arsenic a pioneer of affordable and inclusive education. He went connected to found PU and grade colleges for women and earned the favoritism of starting the archetypal women’s assemblage successful the undivided Vijayapura district.
He resigned from authorities work to acceptable up a schoolhouse successful a rented location successful 1969.
SECAB present runs 26 institutions, including an Unani aesculapian college, diploma and engineering colleges and others. Rani Channamma University gave him a honorary doctorate for his publication to women’s education.
District in-charge Minister M.B. Patil expressed condolences and called him a idiosyncratic known for his elemental lifestyle, secular outlook and unwavering committedness to enactment implicit recognition.
He described him arsenic a visionary educationist.
