The sovereign Republic of India, immediately after independence has very rightly taken up the Agriculture as a priority sector for development. Thanks to the Green Revolution, the once food deficient country which depended on wheat imports during 1965 & 66, under PL 480 scheme of USA, has become a grain surplus nation with buffer stocks and sufficient food security system. Similarly the White Revolution, under the able guidance of Dr. V.N. Kurien, has ushered a surplus of milk and made the country No.1.in the milk production in the entire world. However as per the statistics 25%-30% of fruits & vegetables,10%of cereals & other food grains and 5% of the milk produced in the country is lost due to various reasons resulting  in a colossal wastage of food, thus making a paradoxical situation of Poverty in Plenty…A gram of food saved is equivalent to a gram of food produced. It is here that the country should put forth all the required energies to see that the entire food produced is ultimately consumed without any losses, by adopting necessary and appropriate processing, preserving and packaging technologies. It is honors to note that the Government of India established the ministry of Food Processing Industries towards this end. The Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust was established in 1991 by Late,Ex-M.P, Prof. Ashokraoji  Deshmukh interested to solve the problems of rural as well as Marathawada region students by giving  them  educational institute hub with all the facilities so an to emphasizes on scientific approach to the development.  The JJCT Organization came into being a educational  hub;

It is in this direction we established the “ Rajiv Gandhi College of Food Technology”, affiliated to Vasantrao Naik Marathawada Agricultural Vidhyapeth (VNMKV) in the year 2004 to train 80 students every year in Food Technology so that they can aid in achieving this objective of national importance namely processing & Preservation of Foods which in turn contributes to the economic development of the country.

Krushi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)  -1994

 Anganwadi Training Centre  -1997

Rajiv Gandhi  Agriculture College (RGAC) -2002

Rajiv Gandhi College of Food Technology (RGCFT)-2004

Yashwantrao Chavan  Maharashtra Open University -2007