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Ballygunge Government High School

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Established
  
1927

Yearbook
  
Baagbitan

Phone
  
033 2486 4066

Medium of language
  
Bengali language

Nickname
  
Ballygungian

Affiliation
  
WBBSE and WBCHSE

Founded
  
1927

Ballygunge Government High School

Address
  
38/2, Naresh Mitra, Ballygunge Circular Road, Amar Basu Sarani, Near Beltala Motor Vehicles Office, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020

Similar
  
St Lawrence High Sch, South Point School, National High School F, National High School F, Birla High School

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 Bengali. 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 500 students enrolled at this school. The school is adjacent to Kolkata Regional Transport Office (RTO)/Ballygunge police station and Kolkata Motor Vehicles Department

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Saraswati puja in ballygunge government high school on 13th february 2016


Classes

Classes between class one to class five are taught in the morning section, while classes between six and twelve are conducted at the day section.

Events

  • Wall magazine "Iiha" with articles, poems and short stories.
  • School magazine "Baagbitan" 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.

    • School uniform

  • Morning:

    • White shirt with the school badge stitched on the shirt's pocket, white pant and black school shoes.

  • Day:

    • White shirts with the school badge stitched on the shirt's pocket, khaki pant and black school shoes up to class ten. For class eleven and twelve black pant, white shirt with the school badge stitched on the shirt's pocket and black school shoes.

    Address

    The address of the school is 38/2, Naresh Mitra Sarani (formerly known as Beltala Road), Ballygunge, Kolkata : 700020.

    Notable alumni

    'Academics'

    Anthropology

  • Surajit Chandra Sinha

    • Economist

  • Sukhamoy Chakraborty

    • History

  • Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
  • Rajat Kanta Ray
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri

    • 'Cinema and Theatre'

  • Rajatava Dutta
  • Ritwik Ghatak
  • Subrata Mitra
  • Sombhu Mitra
  • Satyajit Ray

    • Medical Science

    ^Dr.Niranjan Bhattacharya

    Journalism

  • Gautam Bhattacharya
  • Joydeep Ray

    • Singer & Musician

  • Rupankar Bagchi
  • R.D. Burman
  • Ramanuj dasgupta
  • Saikat Mitra

    • Novelist

  • Nabarun Bhattacharya

    • Public Administration

  • Prasad Ranjan Ray
  • Amitabha Bhattacharya
  • Gautam Bhattacharya

    • References

    Ballygunge Government High School Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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