Burdwan Municipal High School , located at the heart of Burdwan, a town 95 km north-west of Kolkata

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, is one of the oldest boys schools in India

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. The school was established in 1883 by the Bardhaman Municipal Authority.

The school has a large campus consisting of three two-storied buildings, gardens, and playground. It has 2230 students and 49 teachers.

History

In 1855 Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, along with Adi Brahmo Samaj established Brahmo Samaj Boys’ School (later renamed Burdwan English School). Bhagaban Chandra Basu, the then Deputy magistrate of Burdwan and father of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, was one of its founders. After the demise of Mahatab Chandra the Brahma movement in Burdwan became weak for lack of patronage and the school became in financial straits. Burdwan Municipality took over the school and Burdwan Municipal School started its journey anew in 1883.

List of school sites:

• Buckley’s kuthi (1883–1888)
• Rashik Krishna Bhaban (1888–1902)
• Lal Kuthi (1902–1917)
• Mehedibagan (1917–1919)
• Pal Building (1919—1924)
• Jiafat Manjil, Akiat Manjil, (Dhal Dighir Kuthi) (1924–1936)
• Midda Pukur Kuthi (1929)
• The New Building (1936–1942)
• Jiafat Manjil, Coxhead Building (1942–1945)
• The New Building (1945)
• Centenary Building (1983)

Campus

The school has the following structures:

• West wing.
• Double-storeyed main building, along with the annexe. This wing houses the office of the headmaster.
• Primary school block
• Teachers' block
• Playing field and football ground.

• Playing fields for cricket.

Sports

Besides the annual sports events, the school has a soccer team that participates in the District level championships. Cricket, Basket ball and Football are most popular.

Ceremonies

The Independence day(15 August),republic day (26 January)and Saraswati Puja are annual ceremonies.
The school organize 4 days cultural programme at the eve of saraswati pooja.

Curriculum

This school is a higher secondary school (from class 1 to 12).

The curriculum is as per West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (until class 10) and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

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 (Class 11 and 12).

The common curriculum is followed until class 10. In class 11 and 12, there are 3 streams: Science, Commerce and Arts.

Alumni Association (www.chirantani.org)

The alumni association of the school named CHIRANTANI was formed in 2002. Chirantani works hand in hand with the school authority towards the welfare of the students.

Register yourself with the Chirantani. Log on to www.chirantani.org

Notable alumni

• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Sukumar Sen
• Dr Samar Sinha - former director, IISC Bangalore
• Dr Debashish Chatterjee - Director - IIM Kozhikode, Former Professor and Head of Leadership Developmenr centre, IIM Lucknow
• Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya - Professor of Economics, IIM Lucknow
• Dr Amalendu Chandra - Prof. IIT, Kanpur, Dept. of Chemistry, Winner of Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Award
• Dr Nirjhar Roy - Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department and Former Dean, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
• Dr Pabitra Biswas - Medical Officer (Government Of West Bengal)
• Dr Abhijit Tarafdar - Nephrologist and writer of the award winning novel "Apatya"
• Rik Dey - IIT Kanpur
• Anik Chattopadhyay - IIT Guwahati
• Sambit Dutta - Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University