Jagadbandhu Institution

22°31′11.44″N 88°22′5.54″E / 22.5198444°N 88.3682056°E / 22.5198444; 88.3682056InformationTypePublic schoolMottoes"Know thyself"Founded1914; 110 years ago (1914)FounderJagadbandhu RayHeadmasterAvijit BhattacharyaTeaching staff~56Grades1-12GenderBoysAge range6-18Number of pupils2000LanguageBengaliSchedule11 A.M to 4.20 P.M.YearbookSanchariAffiliationsWest Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary EducationWebsitewww.jagadbandhualumni.com

Jagadbandhu Institution (listen^ⓘ) is a school for boys in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Jagadbandhu Institution is a Bengali medium public school in South Kolkata.

Affiliation

It is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams) and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Higher Secondary Examination (12th Board exams).

History

The school was established by Jagadbandhu Roy in 1914.^[1] The first president and vice-president of the school were Asutosh Choudhury and Rai Bahadur Ramtaran Banerjee.^[2] The first secretary was Rajendra Bidyabhusan and Murlidhar Bandhopadhaya.^[3] Recently,in 2022, the 1974 batch of Higher Secondary passed students published a book about their memories of the teachers of this school. The memories revealed the sincerity, honesty and the humorous nature of the teachers in a middle class Bengali medium Kolkata school in the tumultuous decade in the city of joy.^[4]

The school was started in the 2 storied rented house of Dhanballavh Seth.The second location was very near to the first, near Ekdalia Road and Cornfield Road. Jagadbandhu Roy donated the building. A hostel was provided. Ashutosh Mukherjee laid the foundation stone on the 2nd building.

In 1920, Calcutta Improvement Trust decided to directly connect Rosa Road and Ballygunge Junction railway station. The authorities abolished the school building.

This school building was demolished and after a court case against Calcutta Improvement Trust, Calcutta Improvement Trust built the 4th building. This intermediate state school was started in the rented house of Naren Mitra. In 2014 the school celebrated its centenary year.

School Secretary

• Rajendra Bidyabhusan
• Murulidhar Banerjee
• Surendranath Sen
• Kumud Bandhu Roy (Nov, 1937 - March, 1943)
• Sachidananda Bhattacharjee (April, 1943 - June, 1946)
• Bholanath Roy
• Tarak Chandra Das
• Shibnath Roy (Nov, 1961)
• Upendranath Dutta
• Dilip Kumar Singha (Administrator)
• Atin Bandyopadhyay (Administrator)
• Nityananda Saha (Administrator)
• Bireswar Roychoudhury (Administrator)
• Debprakash Chakravarti
• Buthadeb Bandhyapadhyay

Joint Secretary

• Rajendranath Vidyabhusan (From the very beginning - 1916)
• Murulidhar Banerjee (From the very beginning - 1916)

Notable people

Notable alumni

• Salil Chowdhury, music director and songwriter
• Chinmoy Guha, scholar, linguist, knighted twice by the government of France, former vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati
• Samik Bandyopadhyay, scholar and critic
• Subrata Guha, test cricketer
• Subrata Roy (scientist), professor, inventor, author
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, professor
• Gajendrakumar Mitra, Author,Sahitya Academy award
• Tushar Kanti Talukdar IPS, Police Commissioner, Kolkata Police
• Prof. Partha Saha, molecular biologist, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata^[5]

Notable teachers

• Jyoti Bhusan Chaki, linguist, author, translator
• Shyamal Dutta Ray, water-colour painter^[6][7]

Alumni association

The school alumni association was established in 1992.^[8] Kheya is its official magazine.^[9]

See also

• Kamala Girls' High School, girls' school in south Kolkata, India

References

External links

• List of teachers
• List of students