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Opened
  
1914

Teaching staff
  
~56

Founder
  
Jagadbandhu Ray

Headmaster
  
Avijit Bhattacharya

Phone
  
098305 79230

Founded
  
1914

Jagadbandhu Institution

Type
  
Public, selective, single-sex high secondary school

Motto
  
আত্মানং বিদ্ধি("Know thyself")

Key people
  
Anshuman Bhowmik, Subhendu Sikdar, Swapan Kumar Goswami

Address
  
25, Fern Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700019

Similar
  
Ballygunge Junction Railway, Adarsha Balika Shikshay, Jadavpur Vidyapith, Jodhpur Park Boys School, Ballygunge Tram Depot

Jagadbandhu institution celebrated 100 years complete anniversary


Jagadbandhu Institution (Bengali: জগদ্বন্ধু ইনস্টিটিউশন;  listen ) is a school for boys in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 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).

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History

Jagadbandhu Institution is a Bengali medium of South Kolkata. The school was established by Jagadbandhu Roy in 1914 at 25 Fern Road, Kolkata-19. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee laid the foundation stone on 11 January 1914. The first president and vice-president of the school were Asutosh Choudhury and Rai Bahadur Ramtaran Banerjee. The first secretary was Rajendra Bidyabhusan.

Notable alumni

  • Anup Chanda, former chairman, Port Trust
  • Birendra Chattopadhyay, poet
  • Chinmoy Guha, scholar, linguist, knighted twice by the government of France, former vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati
  • Dilip Kumar Sinha, mathematician, former vice-chancellor, Viswa-Bharati
  • Gajendra Kumar Mitra, novelist
  • Harishadhan Dasgupta, filmmaker
  • Hiranmoy Bandypoadhyay, scholar, first vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati
  • Pranabendu Dasgupta, poet
  • Samik Bandyopadhyay, scholar and critic
  • Subrata Guha, former test cricketer
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, national professor, Padmabhushan
  • Tushar Kanti Talukdar, former police commissioner
  • Nirmal Kmar Roy stood first in Matriculation, Managing Director Britania Biscuit Co Ltd.
  • Kalayan Moitra,Dramatist

    • Notable teachers

  • Jyoti Bhusan Chaki, linguist, author, translator
  • Shyamal Dutta Ray, painter
  • Upendranath Dutta, national award-winning headmaster
  • Deven Samadar, Mathematics Teacher
  • Harisadhan Ghose, Bengali Teacher
  • Suren Das, English Grammar Teacher and Sports teacher
  • Prafulla Ghose, Assistant Headmaster

    • Alumni association

    The school alumni association was established in 1992.

    References

    Jagadbandhu Institution Wikipedia
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