The ABVP was started by students in 1948, a year after Indian Independence, with the objective of channeling students' energy toward the task of national reconstruction. Its growth process was slow and sporadic in its first few years, but accelerated after Professor Yeshwantrao Kelkar, a lecturer in Bombay, became its main organiser in 1958. He built the organisation into what it is now, and is co
nsidered to be the real architect of the ABVP.The ABVP gradually spread its work across various universities in India.The group runs projects and programmes aimed at national integration and using social consciousness to solve economic and other problems. It also campaigns for educational and university reforms and competes in student-body elections in colleges and universities to achieve these goals.
