History

     Sahebdanga is an old village of Nadia district in the Haripur panchayat area under Santipur Block. Approximately 95% of its population is Muslim while 5% is Hindu. Before 1952 there was no school nearby. Hence in compulsion, pupils had to travel 4 km to reach Haripur Primary School, the nearest primary school. The dirt road to that school used to become muddy in monsoon. Few wise villagers like Gobinda Ghosh, Rampada Ghosh, Lal Mohammad Dhabak, Tajil Dhabak requested some educated persons of Santipur like Baidyanath Saha, Jamat Ali Sekh, Nasiruddin Sekh to open a school in Sahebdanga village. After entertaining their request they started a school near Sahebdanga Madhyapara the same year using bamboo and tin shed and with only 50~60 pupils. But after a year the shed got destroyed in a storm. Hence the school got transferred to the study of Nurmahammad Sekh, a local villager. But running a school in someone's study had its difficulties. In compulsion, the school again got shifted to Elem Mallik's house (Dakshin Para) under a Bombax ceiba tree (Shimul tree). In 1954 a cyclone uprooted that tree and impeded the school again. The same year a wealthy and renowned resident of Santipur Tamalipara named Dhananjay Chakraborty aka Phyala Thakur bought a large amount of land from the Maharaja of Krishnanagar and donated one bigha (about 33 Shatak) of it situated in Dakshin Para to Sahebdanga Primary School. The next year, in the year of 1955 the institution got approval from the government. The school started its journey with 150 pupils. Year by year that number just got inflated and touched the mark of 450. To lighten the load on a single school another school was established in Uttarpara around 2001. Currently, in 2020 the total number of pupils is 163 having an appropriate ratio with the total number of teachers. Now Sahebdanga Primary School has accessible toilets, latrines, benches, electricity, deep tubewell for drinking water, mid-day meal system, dining room, and good teachers. The quality of teaching is very satisfying. Now 85% of the villagers are literate. Mr Ayub Ali Dhabak, a former pupil of the school's first batch told this precise history. He also informed that Mr Jamat Ali Sekh, one of the founders of the school is still alive. A better history must be available from him.