Bidhannagar Municipal School
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| Bidhannagar Municipal School | |
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| Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal IND |
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| Education System | Indian |
| Medium of Language | Bengali or English |
| Established | 1997 |
Bidhannagar Municipal School is a primary and high school in Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City), Kolkata, India.
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[edit] History
The school was founded in 1997, the first classes being held in Acharya Prafulla Chandra School, BK Block, Salt Lake, but soon the school was moved to its new built building in FE Block.[1] The inauguration ceremony was on the 1 July 1999, led by West Bengal finance minister Dr. Ashim Dasgupta and higher education minister Satyasadhan Chakraborty.
[edit] Campus
The three-storey building has a triangular shape with a small courtyard in the middle. It has also a huge playground just beside the main building. It is a stone's throw from Karunamoyee crossing, and thus is well linked with the whole city by numerous buses and autos.
[edit] Academic programme
The school to has a primary department and a high school department up to 12th standard. It gives its students the option to study in Bengali or English medium. At the +2 level, there are both science and humanities streams.
[edit] Facilities
The school has well equipped laboratories and equipment for various sports. It encourages students to take part in several cultural programmes, and inter-school competition, including painting[2] and chess competitions, in which pupil Tamishra Das won the national under-8 girls' competition in the 2004 The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship.[3]
[edit] Student life
Students participate in an intra-school cultural championship every year known as the "shikhharthi utsav" (students' festival),[4] and the foundation day is celebrated every year on 1 July. Apart from these, regular soccer championships, kabaddi competitions, quizzes and an annual sports day[5] are also held.
[edit] References
- ^ "19 students hurt in accident", The Statesman, 2004-08-01. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ List of students selected for participation in the West Bengal State Level Painting Competition on 14th November, 2005. Bureau of Energy Efficiency. Ministry of Power. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ "Wish chess was in Olympics", The Telegraph, 2004-09-01. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ Students festival of BMS, 2004 (Adobe Flash). Google Video. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ Annual School Sports of BMS , 2007 (Adobe Flash). Google Video. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
