The Father Agnel Ashram is a charitable institution in India. Founded under the inspiration and guidance of the Father Conceicao Rodrigues, the movement started with an orphanage and a trade school in carpentry. Today, under the guidance of Agnel Ashram Fathers, it caters to full-fledged schools, industrial training centres, polytechnics, engineering colleges at the bachelor and post graduate levels and a School of Management and has spread its wings with large technical complexes at Bandra in Mumbai, Verna in Goa, New Delhi, Noida, Ambernath, Vashi in Navi Mumbai and in Pune.
It is named after Ven. Fr. Agnel D’Souza, a Goan Priest who died in 1927. From Mumbai Fr. Agnel Ashram branched in 1979 at Verna Goa and New Delhi, simultaneously and later in 1984 it branched at Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with the same aim and similar institutional set up.
The Agnel Ashram Fathers under the inspiration of their charismatic leader Fr. C. Rodrigues had acquired experience in conducting technical institution in Mumbai. They felt that the experience they had acquired should be put to the service of the people.