History

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL

Some local people under the leadership of Bholanath Mondal, Nabin Saha, Ramchand Datta, Yudhisthir Mandal and Satkari Bhattacharya ventured into the foundation of a Secondary School at Saktipur. Their tireless effort was implemented in 1905. At the beginning the school started in a private house owned by the ancestors of Dr. Ramapada Pramanik.

In 1907 Mahim Chandra Nandi, the eldest son of Manindra Chandra (the then ruler of this locality) had a premature death. Local people appealed to Manindra Chandra to undertake the school and to dedicate it to his deceased son. Responding to their appeal Manindra Chandra named the school after that of his son and constructed a building for the school at the north-east of ‘Poramatala’. The school ran there smoothly upto 1938.

In 1938 a devastating flood destroyed that building entirely. The unsheltered teachers then met Srish Chandra, the then ruler of the locality with an appeal to shift the school to the nearby ‘Silk-Kuthi’. The Silk-traders built the Kuthi in the 18th Century when this locality earned an international fame over silk business. But with the shifting of the capital of ‘Sube Bangla’ from Murshidabad to Kolkata the declination of Silk-business started gradually. When this declination was complete, the Kuthi was left useless. Manindra Chandra undertook the Kuthi on lease from the British Govt. Srish Chandra gave permission to shift the school to that Kuthi in 1939. Regarding the matter the persons who took a leading role, were Aswini Kr. Bandopadhyay, Dr. Sarat Ch. De, Nrisingha Prasad Sarkar and Pramath Nath Sarkar. Since 1939 the school has been running in the present building which has been developed time to time.

The school observed its centenary celebration in the year of 2004 with great grandeur and pomp. Throughout the year various programmes felicitated the occasion. Mr. Amar Chowdhury, the then P.W.D – Minister of the Govt. of West Bengal inaugurated the programme of the final phase. The statue of Mahim Chandra was set up in that year.