The Padmashree Charitable Trust was started in the year 1994 with a vision of establishing an organization working for social cause. This lead to start Padmashree Group of educational institutions to cater needs of the society.
Founder trustees Sri. T K Narayanappa, Dr. Aswath Narayan and Mr. Satish together nourished this cause and have been rendering their service in this front. Padmashree Group of Institutions has a record of 15 years of Academic excellence.
In the year 1996, the Padmashree group had its launch with the Inception of First Physiotherapy college in Bangalore under Rajeev Gandhi University of health sciences. With this humble beginning of single institutions with 25 students in the year 1996 made an impressive progress with 10 institutions, nurturing more than 2200 students today.
Padmashree group has institutions offering courses both under Bangalore university and Rajeevgandhi univeristy of health sciences. Apart from this Padmashree has recognized research centre, permanent affiliation from Bangalore University and also recognized under UGC 2(f) and 12(b). The Group constantly endeavours to identify and offer additional courses that become contemporarily more relevant. It offers job oriented training programs in Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, Quality Control, Animal cell culture and Clinical Research etc.
In addition the Group has the added distinction of being the First College under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, to offer the Bachelors in Hospital Administration, Masters in Public Health, Bachelors in Public Health and M.Sc Clinical Research programs.