History
Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, the gem of an educationist and a titan of a man, was
a man with a mission.His was a dream of having founded an institution,run
and resourced by the Indians and taught by the Indians, exactly in line
with The Metropolitan Institution, conceived and cared for by no less
renowned an educationist and a renaissance man than Iswar Chandra
Vidyasagar.And thus came into being Mitra Institution Bhowanipur Branch on
3rd February, 1905, founded by Sri Bisweswar Mitra, the Founder Head Master
of Mitra Institution (Main).
On 13 Kansaripara Road, in a rented house, the school began her humble
journey into the pages of history till November 1910 when it had herself
shifted to her present building on Harish Mukherjee Road, adjacent to
Harish Park, with the address 16/A Balaram Bose Ghat Road, Kolkata 700025.
The very first Managing Committee of the school was formed on 9th January
1910 with Sir Asutosh Mookerjee as her President who ,by virtue of his
personal love and care, had herself transformed into an institution at good
as Eton am Harrow in England and that too within the first decade of her
inception.And that invited all the honourable members of The Saddler
Commission , instituted by the then British Government to pay a visit to
the Institution in 1917 ,who were all praise for the standard of teaching
and the congenial atmosphere, created by a team of dedicated teachers.
The school was awarded permanent Recognition by Calcutta University on 1st
September,1911..And that won the institution many a laurel in the Public
Examinations under Calcutta University and later on under the West Bengal
Board of Secondary Education down the years till date. The Institution won
her a pride of place in the arena of school education in1945 when 4 of her
pupils bagged 4 ranks out of TOP TEN.
While the students of the institution owe their success to their esteemed
teachers who included Sri Satis Chandra Bose (the first Head Master), Sri
Haridas Kar(the first Asst Head Master), Ganitacharya K C Nag,(the 4th Head
Master), Kavisekhar Kalidas Roy, Sri Deviprasad Roy Chowdhury (the artist
of international repute), Sri Prafulla Chakraborty,Sri Jagadananda Roy ,
Sri Nitindranath Roy et al, the teachers( of both the past and the present)
shine in the reflected glory of their boys.
To build better boys to build a better Bengal nay better Bharat is the
motto of this institution.And hence since 1910 laurels galore have been won
by her boys ,a galaxy of stars, who include Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee,
Romaprasad Mookerjee, Syamaprasad Mookerjee, Kanak Ranjan Dasgupta,
Chittotosh Mookerjee, Asin Dasgupta, Siddartha Sankar Roy, Somnath
Chatterjee, Gen Jayanta Nath Chaudhury, Air Marshal Subrata Mukherjee,
Hemanta Mukherjee, Jatin Das, Kabi Subhas Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor, Bikas Roy
Arun Sharma, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya etc.
The school is dedicated to doing as much good to as many pupils in as many
ways and for as long as possible.
Her past being glorious, present being bright, hers is an assured FUTURE.