Serampore Union Institution

The school building

Serampore Union Institution is a Bengali medium boys' school in India, accredited as "A-Grade Excellent Educational Institution" by West Bengali Council of Higher Secondary Education for its brilliant and enviable academic performance. The school was inaugurated by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. The school is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. It was established in 1884. In 2009, the school celebrated its 125th anniversary.[1]

Spread over an area of almost ten bighas and close to the river, the Hooghly, in the heart of Serampore (erstwhile Fredricknagore), a Historical and famous city in West Bengal. Serampore Union Institution has been in the centre of many historical events of before and after India's independence, with her spirited children actively participating in the freedom movement and process of reformation, social as well as political, besides achieving brilliant academic excellence spanning a period of hundred and twenty five years since 1884.

Location

The school is a Bengali medium school (boys) situated at 7 K.M. Bhattacharya St. Serampore HPO.-712201, West Bengal, India. It is situated at almost 1.5 km towards East from Serampore Railway Station on the Howrah - Bandel (main line) section, 20 km (north) from Howrah Junction. The western bank of the river Hooghly (Ganges) is just 500 metres away from the school.

Curriculum

The school offers classes from grade 5 to grade 12. Under the education board of WBBSE W.B.B.S.E. INDEX NUMBER TI-064

Subjects offered in the Secondary Level( Class V to Class X )

(Subjects as offered by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education)

Subjects offered in the Higher Secondary Level ( Class XI to Class XII )

Science

Classes are taught in Bengali and English. Subjects as offered by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.

Commerce

Classes are taught in Bengali and English. Subjects as offered by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.

Infrastructure

The school comprises three adjoined buildings and one football ground. The school has an enviable library, three sophisticated Science Labs and a well-furnished Computer Lab with air conditioning and trained teachers.

History

It was towards the end of the 19th century, led by Sri Naryan Chandra Bhattacharyya, some locals of Serampore, Mahesh and Ballavpur approached Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar with a request to open a branch of the Metropolitan High School in Serampore. But Vidyasagar Mahasai advised them to set up a school in the town on their own. With his blessing came Mahesh Higher class English School with fifty six students in the year 1884. Later the school moved from Mahesh Higher to Newgate street (present Rishi Bankim Sarani) and from there to Poffam House, the present Vidyasagar bhavan of the school building.

In the thirties the doors of the school were opened for the girls of the town willing to pursue higher education after primary level until Serampore Girls’ High School came up to shoulder the responsibility. During the war the school building also housed some classes of Serampore College.

This historical institution of academic excellence now stands on the threshold of the post-centenary silver jubilee celebration, and there is no end to the journey that began in 1984.

Beside imparting school education par excellence to the students of the town and its adjoining places, which has earned the school “A-Grade Excellence” education from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. The school has also played an important role in the town in creating mass awareness on different social and science related issues involving in the students and common people.

Several eminent alumni of the school evince her glorious heritage. Acharya Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya (former vice chancellor, Visvabharati University), Prof. Panchanan Singha(Principal, Asutosh College), Dr. Mohini Mohan Ghosh (ex-principal, City College), Dr. Basanta Kumar Samanta (eminent mathematician and ex-principal, Hooghly Mohosin College and Chandannagore Govt. College), Late Swami Gokulananda Maharaj(head, Rama Krishna Mission, Delhi) Dr. Mriganka Sekhar Singha, Dr. Gopal Das Nag(former minister, Govt. of West Bengal), Sahid Gopinath Saha (matyr), Sankariprasad Mukhopadhyay (freedom fighter), Amiya Mukhopadhyay(captain of Bengal Athletics), Saroj Chatterjee(Goalkeeper, Mohan Bagan) are some of the many famous students of the school besides a great many academicians, scientists technologists, doctors who have made valuable contribution to their respective fields and thus ensured the emergence of great nation.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=22.7545306&lon=88.3451736&z=18&l=0&m=b&v=8&show=/19317323/Serampore-Union-Institution.

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