The veerashaiva Vidyavardhaka Sangha, Bellary is a registered educational Body, which has been working for the educational uplift of the youth in this backward area by running four elementary schools, four high schools, three composite junior colleges, six first grade colleges, two engineering collges, two pharmacy colleges, one MBA college and one polytechnic. The Starting of Kotturswamy College of Education in the year 1963 is the most outstanding and significant contribution in this field and testifies to the foresight that has ventured upon a postgraduate professional institution, a teachers training college.
This has been made possible by the generosity of Jagadguru Sri Sri Kottuswamyji who has created, by Trust Deed, a permanent endowment of 464 acres of land, valued at Rs. One Lakh, in favor of the sangha, for the exclusive benefit of the college which is aptly named after him.
With the democratisation and universalisation of education at all levels and withhundreds of new schools springing up every year, the necessity for a professional College likes ours, needs no emphasis, We feel that only a trained teacher has any place in a school and he alone can fully play his part in moulding the youth of our country for shouldering the vast responsibilities that face the nation. Unfortunately the dearth of trained teachers is actually felt all over the country and this problem has to be tackled on a mass scale and quickly too hence this bold venture of the Veerashaiva Vidyavardhaka Sangha in starting the Kotturswamy College of education.
This college is affiliated to VSKU, Bellary, and trains Students for the B.Ed,. Degree Courses.,