Late Shri Vishnu Waman Thakur Charitable Trust Established in 1988 and started the Utkarsha Vidyalaya & Junior College in 1991 to promote the cause of higher Education in Virar and its adjoining rural & Adivasi Backward area which has population of over 1.5 lac. The Junior college is affiliated to Maharashtra Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. Subsequently in the year 2000-01, the VIVA COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMERCE & SCIENCE has been established which is affiliated to University of M