Registered as a Charitable Trust in 1982, Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP) – www.rmponweb.org – was initiated as a unique leadership development academy with an aim to nurture, impart training and build capacities of elected representatives, social workers as well as people running institutions, organizations, and start-ups. RMP has also been active in conceiving and executing research projects concerning socially pertinent issues including those of the backward classes and rural communities. Additionally, RMP also focuses on undertaking public awakening activities. RMP is one of the unique institutions in the entire South Asia and South East Asia having a special consultative status provided by the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Since its inception, RMP has trained more than 60,000 people comprising MPs, MLAs, their associated staff, Panchayat office bearers, NGOs, corporates, entrepreneurs and youth.