Ballygunge Government High School

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Ballygunge Government High School, Kolkata (India)
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Location
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38/2, Naresh Mitra Sarani
Kolkata – 700020

India
Coordinates22°31′48″N 88°21′14″E / 22.5301°N 88.3539°E / 22.5301; 88.3539Coordinates: 22°31′48″N 88°21′14″E / 22.5301°N 88.3539°E / 22.5301; 88.3539
Information
School typeGovernment school
Established1927
AuthorityGovernment of West Bengal
HeadmasterJaydeep Gangopadhyay
Number of students1200
LanguageEnglish, Bengali
NicknameBallygungian
YearbookBaagbitan
AffiliationWBBSE and WBCHSE

Ballygunge Government High School, or BGHS, is a school in West Bengal, India. This is a boys' only school for secondary and higher secondary level students. Its medium of instruction is English. It was once considered one of the best Bengali medium schools in Kolkata and continues to be a good one. The campus includes a fairly large play-ground and the school offers variety of extracurricular activities for its students. The school has produced many well known academics, film and theater personalities, journalist and musicians. Currently, there are over 1200 students enrolled at this school. The school is adjacent to Kolkata Regional Transport Office (RTO)/Ballygunge police station and Kolkata Motor Vehicles Department

Classes[]

Class one to class five are taught in the morning section, while classes from six to twelve are conducted at the day section

Every year the classes are taken by trainee teachers for some time, as, Govt of West Bengal had set up a Teachers' Training College name David Hare Training College. To facilitate the trainee teachers, an idea of starting a model school came to the authorities and eventually a school was established just behind the Teachers Training college, exactly as per the copy book of an ideal School. Hence the birth of Ballygunge Govt School in 1927 and the first batch of School Final came out in 1928.

Events[]

First wall magazine was published at the main stairs in 1971, named SAPTARSHI—with poems, short stories, and articles and caricature, by the then class X students

  • Wall magazine "Iiha (ইহা)" with articles, poems and short stories.
  • School magazine "Baagbitan (বাগবিতান)" is published every year. Students and teachers contribute poems, essays, short stories, and sketches.
  • An annual three-day arts fair is held at the time of Saraswati Puja. The students contribute crafts, drawings, scientific experiments and works for public display.
  • Sports events are run during the annual sports.
  • Independence day is celebrated with a ceremony every year on 15 August in the school premises.
  • The school's foundation day is celebrated on 3 January.
  • Saraswati Puja is one of the main festivals held in the school.
  • Activities include theater, singing, drawing competition, debate, and recitation.

Notable alumni[]

Satyajit Ray was a student of this school
  • Ajit Kumar Banerjee - Environmentalist
  • Gautam Bhattacharya - Sports journalist
  • Nabarun Bhattacharya - Novelist
  • R.D. Burman - Film score composer and music director
  • Rajat Kanta Ray - Historian
  • Rajatava Dutta - Actor
  • Ritwik Ghatak - Filmmaker and script-writer[1]
  • Rupankar Bagchi - Singer
  • Satyajit Ray - Author, composer, lyricist, poet and filmmaker
  • Sombhu Mitra - Actor, director
  • Subrata Mitra - Cinematographer
  • Sukhamoy Chakraborty - Economist[2]
  • Partha Sarathi Gupta - Historian[3][4]
  • - Historian[5][6]
  • Surajit Chandra Sinha - Anthropologist[citation needed]
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri - Historian[citation needed]
  • Sekhar Basu - Indian Nuclear Scientist.
  • - Notable science fiction writer.

References[]

  1. ^ "details of works" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Gupta, Partha Sarathi. "Of shared days with Amartya." India International Centre Quarterly 25 (1998): 70-75". JSTOR 23005530. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Gupta, Partha Sarathi. "Of shared days with Amartya." India International Centre Quarterly 25 (1998): 70-75". JSTOR 23005530. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Gupta, Partha Sarathi (2002). Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism By Partha Sarathi Gupta (Edited with an introduction by Sabayasachi Bhattacharya). ISBN 9788178240190.
  5. ^ Gupta, Partha Sarathi (2002). Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism By Partha Sarathi Gupta (Edited with an introduction by Sabayasachi Bhattacharya). ISBN 9788178240190.
  6. ^ "Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, the Historian Who Blended Scholarship With Teaching".

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