Karnatak Lingayat Education Society

Karnatak Lingayat Education Society
Established	13 November 1916
Founder	Veerabhadrappa Desai
Academic affiliation	University of Illinois, Chicago, USA,; University of Michigan, USA; University of Missouri, USA; Sunderland University, UK; Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia,; Copperbelt University at Republic of Zambia; Rhodes University, South Africa,; Middlesex University, UK; University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA; Christina Care Health Services, Delaware, USA; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA; University of California at San Francisco, USA; Fortius World School, London United Kingdom;
Chairman	Prabhakar Kore
Students	1.25 Lakhs
Location	Belagavi, India

Karnataka Lingayat Education Society (KLE Society) was founded by "Seven Dedicated Teachers or Saptharishis" in 1916 headquartered at Belagavi, KLE Society runs over 250 educational institutions in Karnataka and Maharashtra. On 13 November 1916, KLE Society started an Anglo Vernacular School in Belagavi. Lingaraj College came into existence in June 1933. In 1947, B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology was started in Hubballi. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College at Belagavi and Gudleppa Hallikeri College at Haveri were started in 1963. KLE also runs the KLE engineering college in Belagavi, established in 1979. From 1984 onwards, KLE Society started dental, education, nursing, information technology, computer applications, hotel management, business management, tourism, fashion design, and agriculture colleges, as well as polytechnics across India. Its health care institutions include the super-specialty KLE Society's Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre at Belagavi. Today under the leadership of Prabhakar Kore, the KLE Society runs 256 institutions.

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