The illustrious Bhagwat family, which hails from Devrukh, is blessed with a rich artistic, literary and cultural heritage - especially the likes of late Shri V.P. Bhagwat, known as "Mudran Maharshi" (Pioneer in Printing), the late Shri S.P. Bhagwat (popularly referred to as “Shri Pu Bhagwat"), known to all as the fiercely committed editor of “Mauj Prakashan” and the much admired art professor, late Shri Gajanan Bhagwat, who besides doing an art fellowship by invitation in Italy, learnt the Bauhaus style of design from England and went on to introduce it as a teaching methodology in the J.J. School of Art, Mumbai.
The large-hearted Bhagwat family, through the dedicated efforts of Gajanan Bhagwat and the strong support of Shri Pu Bhagwat, unconditionally donated their ancestral land to the Pitre Foundation funded CREDAR, which runs DeCAD. It was the Bhagwat family’s contribution towards the development of the Kokan region.
It is on this land (Bhagwat Sankul), that DeCAD was established. DeCAD could not have asked for a better location than the one where such a creative and illustrious family have their roots!