The Vishnu Waman Thakur Charitable Trust Established the UTKARSHA 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 2000-2001, the VIVA COLLEGE OF ARTS,COMMERCE & SCIENCE was established with affiliated to University of Mumbai. The college is located in a beautiful pollution free environment of Virar (West) at a distance of about 1 km from Virar Railway Station on Western Railway.

The mandate of the trust is to develop the college to a leading Centre of Education in its entire ramification in this Region. In this last 6years the college has made phenomenal progress.

It started F.Y.B.Com with an intake of 148 students in 2000-2001. Today it not only has all the 3 basic faculties of Arts,Commerce and Science, but also offers latest Career Oriented Professional Courses such as BMM, BMS,B.Sc(IT), B.Sc(Computer Science), B.Sc, Bio-Technogy, B.Com in Account Finance, B.Com in Banking & Insurance and Hotel Management (BHTMS). Under the name VIVA IMS, the trust now offers the Master of Management Studies (MMS), a post graduate degree affiliated to University of Mumbai