title: Mahratta Education Fund
text: # Mahratta Education Fund
  
  The Mahratta Education Fund (MEF) is a non-profit organization working for the spread of education to poor and deserving students of South Indian Marathi speaking community.
  
  The Fund was founded by a 21-year old lawyer E. Vinayaka Row during a meeting convened on September 15, 1912, hosted by Rao Saheb P. Ramachandra Rao and chaired by Dewan Bahadur K. Krishnaswami Rao Sahib (later Cabinet Secretary, Government of India).
  
  