Chandrakona Jirat High School
Chandrakona Jirat High School is one of the oldest schools of West Bengal. It is situated in Chandrakona of West Midnapore, India. It was founded by the late Zamindar Jaykrishna Mukhopadhyay .Our school - Chandrakona Jirat High School is the second oldest institution of the district and celebrated its 150 th. Anniversary in 2006. Pandit Iswar chandra Vidyasagar visited this school in 1854 .By his recommendation, the school was affiliated as a Middle English school in 1856 and was upgraded to an H.E. school in 1871.The School also upgraded as old H.S. school w.e.f. 1 st. January 1963 and new H.S. School with General Stream Course wef 1977. From class 5-12 is taught here. Class 5-10 are only boys but 11 and 12 are co-educational. It is at Gobindapur village of Chandrakona. Present Head Master of this school is Bikash Kumar Ghoshal.He has been awarded “National Education Achievement Award” from “Global Achievers’ Foundation” , New Delhi for his book- Anirban Dipshikha-History of the School.Late Gopendra nath Das-the Hon'ble Justice of Calcutta High Court and the Administrator of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in the 50s decade took his first lesson in this heritage school.The School has been awarded continuous six times District level Prize (1st /2nd/3rd) in Youth Parliament Competition from 2008 to 2013. It also has been awarded State level Prize in 2009.School Magazine “Chayani” is published every year.