History

Kharagpur South Side High School is at present a bi-lingual (Bengali boys and Hindi Co-educational) Higher Secondary School. It is situated at the second avenue of South Side, Development Area not far from the Kharagpur Railway Station. The role strength of this school in the academic year 2008 – 2009 is little over one thousand and five hundred. The number of Bengali and Hindi medium students 347, 454 and 725 respectively.

Kharagpur town is India in miniature. People of almost all states of India live here. There are many kind of School – Bengali, Hindi, Telugu, Oriya, English and Urdu medium appeared by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for teaching the students of different states through their mother tongue. In addition to this, there is a Kendriya Vidyalaya and government and non-government school under Delhi Board. In spite of all these facilities, this town faces many a difficulty (problem) in the field of teaching – learning process through the vernacular.

Fifty percent boys and girls who come to our institution to receive schooling speak Oriya, Telugu, Nepalese and so on in their houses. The majority of them are poverty-stricken and the locality they live in cannot land them any helping hand in the field of education as their mother tongue is different from the language which is used in teaching them at school.