Adivasi Seva Sahayyak Sanstha's Arts, Commerce, Science College, Navapur (Dist. Nandurbar) was established in 1974 and managed by Adivasi Seva Sahayyak and Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha (R).

It is popularly known as Adivasi Seva Sahayyak and Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha's Shri D. H. Agrawal Arts, Shri Rang Avadhoot Commerce and Shri C. C. Shah and M. G. Agarwal Science College, Navapur

It is one of the premier colleges established to impart & provide in the field of higher education for the deserving candidates and prove to be a milestone on the part of progress.

The college is affiliated with North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon and it is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under section 2(f) & 12(B)  under Act, 1956.

It is re-accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with "B" Grade (CGPA Score 2.78 on a 4 Point Scale in 2nd Cycle) on 14th September 2015. The college has been awarded a certificate of ISO 9001:2008 Certification.

The aim of the college is to involve the down-trodden classes of the society that lives in remote mofussil areas into the stream of national education, with the lofty aim of molding these young men and women into strong personalities and responsible citizens of the nation for the nation.

It is a co-educational private Institute, provided a regular course in which is located in the terrible part of Nandurbar played a pioneering role in the field of higher education.

The Govt. has started various schemes for Adivasi people but due to their illiteracy, other people became the beneficiaries of it. Then some of the literate personalities and politician decided to break up the cage of poverty, illiteracy, and superstitions. They realized the need for education.

This reason crystallized itself in the establishment of Adivasi Seva Sahayyak Sanshta in 1974.
 
In the very beginning, the aim of this Sansthas was to acquaint the people with various funds and plans of Government and it was continued up to 1980.

The Sanstha realized this problem and at first, started Arts and Commerce College in 1981. The science faculty was started in same Santha in July 1990 and was affiliated to Govt. of Maharashtra and North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.

Facility of Higher education was not available in this tribal region till 1980. More than 80 percent tribal population in this region had been untouched by the facilities of higher education.

Lack of education among a majority of tribal resulted in ignorance and superstitions. Being poor they were forced to lead gypsy life migrating to industrial cities of Gujrath in search of jobs. They could not afford to send their children to cities for higher education.

Realizing this need the educated Govt. Officers from the tribal community, zealous tribal political leaders and generous merchant of Navapur came together and started Adivasi Seva Sahayyak and Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha's Arts, Commerce College, from 15 July 1981 to make available the facilities of quality higher education to the poor SC, ST, OBC minority students of this region.

The faculty of science was started in 1990. The Sanstha soon constructed its own college building on the spacious 17 acres of land donated by generous late Shri. Hansalalji Agrawal.The medium of instruction for Arts faculty is Marathi and for science and commerce faculty it is English.

The college had received many awards and accolades at a city, state and national level for their educational advancements also received the numbers of achievements awards in the field of sports and curricular activities under North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.

The college offers three years undergraduate courses in Arts, Science, and Commerce streams with various specializations and two years postgraduate courses in Arts, Science, and Commerce, and Management streams with various specializations under North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.

The Sanstha also realized the need for starting professional courses like Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Career Oriented Courses through distance mode on the same campus and which are affiliated with Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik.

University examinations of different courses, examinations conducted by North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, and various other examinations are held in the college premises.

Vision:

• To provide higher education facilities to the tribal students and prepare them to compete with urban students and to contribute their services to Nation building by promoting education

Mission:

• Let's help one another to make life comfortable, peaceful and help to one another to uplift the standard of life of poor, especially of tribal people

Goals & Objectives:

• The core objective of the institution is to impart higher education to the students of tribal area of this Northern part of Maharashtra, which is dominated by the tribals
• To work for the all-round development of students especially the tribal community
• To help the needy and weaker students in education
• To help to uplift the standard of life of the tribals
• To make the tribal students compete with the students of other community and make them responsible citizens
• To eradicate blind beliefs and superstitions among tribals
• To motivate the faculty and the learners to take quality initiatives in academic research and extension activities and help them serve as desirable human resource in the development of the nation
• To prepare them to accept the challenges of the modern world