Karnatak Lingayat Education Society

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Karnatak Lingayat Education Society

Type	Public Charitable Trust
Established	13 November 1916 (108 years ago) (1916-11-13)
Chairman	Prabhakar Kore
Students	1.38 Lakhs
Location	Belagavi , India
Website	www.klesociety.org

Karnataka Lingayat Education Society (KLE Society) is headquartered at Belagavi, Karnataka. KLE Society runs over 300 institutions engaged in education, healthcare and research in Karnataka and Maharashtra. The educational institutions have over 1,30,000 students and the number of people employed across all institutions is over 16000.

The healthcare institutions of KLE have a combined capacity of over 4000 beds including 1700 charitable beds that offer services to the needy at subsidized costs. KLE Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre is a super specialty multi organ transplant centre which is renowned for heart, liver and kidney transplants.