


The journey of our education society starts before 90 years – in the
year 1918 by Shri Motibhai Amin – A born teacher of Vaso. He was
strongly inspired by the library activities in the former Baroda state.
He was a sincere educationalist of Charotar, who established the Vaso
Kelavni Mandal under the Patronage of Vaso Yuvak Mandal, Vaso. He was
known with the nick name of ‘SAHEB’. The Italian educationalist Mrs.
Mary Montessori presented the idea of Pre Primary School (Kinder Garden)
in 1907. He was inspired with her idea and he started Montessori
Education for the first time in 1915 in the state.
For the smooth function of Kelavni Mandal which was established by
Motibhai, have produced teachers for new generations which includes,
Today Vaso Kelavni Mandal is successfully manage by the students who
gets the education from different institutions managed by Vaso Kelavni
Mandal and all the institution are successfully runs under the
management of Vaso Kelavni Mandal even today.

Mr. Darbar Gopaldas was the petty king of Dhasa, Talukdas of
Sankli and Rai villages of Surendranagar district was born in Vaso.
He was the dedicated soldier of the Indian struggle of freedom. He
joined the untouchable movement of Gandhiji and called a meeting of
untouchables of Dhasa and started social improvement. As he had help in
the no – cooperation movement of Gandhiji, the British authority had
captured all the properties of ‘Tyagmurti Darbar Gopaldas’. When he gets
all his properties back from Britishers he had donated his entire
properties and joined the freedom struggle with Mahatma Gandhi. He had
started to give free education in his small state. He liked the
Montessori idea of Mr. Motibhai Amin. And 1st Montessori pre primary
school in the state was started with the financial help of Darbar Saheb
in Vaso in 1915. Vaso Yuvak Mandal converted in the name of
‘Vaso Kelavni Mandal’ in
1918.