Annasaheb Gundewar College, Nagpur is run by the Village Uplift Society, founded by Karmveer Dadasaheb Kannamwar, Ex. Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Late Annasaheb Gundewar, the pioneer of Bharat Sewak Samaj. The Village Uplift Society established in the year 1960 has the object of bettering the lot of our neglected villages in all spheres in accordance with Gandhiji’s slogan “Back to Village”. The society has quite a number of substantial activities to its credit and is expanding its work more and more in the remote rural and tribal areas, as well as in urban slums by organizing schools, hostels, watershed development, rural and tribal development center, health and child care programme, etc.
A. G. college is established in the year 1984 with the sole purpose to provide the opportunity of higher education to the socially and economically backward students in the North-East suburban of Nagpur, in the memory of Lokneta Annasaheb Gundewar.
The college has reached the strength from 47 students in the year 1984 to 2100 students in the Silver Jubilee Year. The college has gradually developed into a large and ideal higher educational campus with various educational schemes undertaken with the favour of U.G.C.