School type Senior secondary Opened January 1949 (1949-01) Phone 033 2523 6969 Founded 1 September 1944 | Religious affiliation(s) Hinduism Status Active Founder Swami Punyananda Colors Grey, White, Khaki | |
Established 1 September 1944 (1944-09-01) Sister school Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Junior Basic School, Rahara (JBS)
Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Junior High School, Rahara (JHS) Address Old Calcutta Rd, Khardaha, Rahara, Kolkata, West Bengal 700156 | ||
The Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School is a higher secondary school in Rahara, Khardaha, West Bengal, India. The school was founded in 1944. The school is run by the Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Authority under the guidance of Ramakrishna Mission at Belur Math.It is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.
History
Initially, the boys' home was established on 1 September 1944, by Swami Punyananda, as an orphanage with a nuclear family of 37 boys, rendered orphan by the Great Famine of Bengal in 1942-1943. The school obtained recognition as a High School from the Calcutta University in January, 1949. From 1957, it was upgraded to a Higher Secondary Multipurpose School with four streams, viz. Humanities, Science, Technical and Commerce. It has been sending up candidates for the Madhyamik Pariksha of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education since 1976 under the new pattern of Secondary Education.
In 1963, the Government of India selected it as one of the model multipurpose schools in the state.