Al-Ameen Mission

The Secretary General of the Mission, M. Nurul Islam, set up the Khalatpur Junior High Madrasa in 1976 when he was still studying his 10th Standard. In May 1984, he started the Institute of Islamic Culture, setting up a hostel for the institute in 1986 in the Madrasa building itself with the collection of one fistful of rice from every home in his village, Khalatpur. In January 1987, it was renamed as Al-Ameen Mission inspired by the Al-Ameen Educational Society of Dr Mumrtaj Ahmed Khan and Ramkrishna mission. It was later financially supported by industrialist Mustaque Hossain and many other.[1][2]

Al-Ameen Mission follows the curriculum of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE). It was awarded "The Telegraph School Award for Excellence" which it shared with the South Point High School in 2002.[3]

As well as being an educational institute, Al-Ameen Mission does charitable works for the Muslim community. It has helped unemployed Muslims with loans and has scholarship programs to help other communities' needy students.

On 19 May 2015, Al-Ameen Mission received Banga Bhushan Award. For past few years Al Ameen Mission is the center of national News (Times of India, The Telegraph ...) for lifting the underprivileged kids to profession and out of poverty.

The mission is mostly run by donation and zakat. Muslims throughout the country contribute their zakat to the Mission, which takes care of 25% of seats reserved for poor, destitute and orphans. It has received funding from many sources such as Pataka Industries Pvt. Limited, the Maulana Azad Education Foundation and the Board of Waqfs, West Bengal.

The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, is located at Khalatpur, Howrah. It comprises about 45 bighas (around 20 acres) of land. It consists of a five-storey boys' hostel building, a three-storey school building and a three-storey administrative building with a guest house and health center. It now has about 1115 students, with a residential staff of 200, and a part-time and non-residential staff of 50. & The other campus are listed below as Branches

The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission.This is as a board. The main campus KHALATPUR maintain the others campus. Across West Bengal Al Ameen runs about 50 schools. Most of them are directly run by Al Ameen Mission and few located in remote village areas are run by local non-profit for a better management and service. Those Academy/School are called in "Collaboration with Al Ameen Mission". They are academically identical to Al Ameen Mission.

Al-Ameen Mission has a good number of permanent teachers as well as visiting teachers from some reputed schools and colleges. The visiting teachers have shown passion of education beyond traditional teaching territories, as some them become long term associates of Al-Ameen to nurture the talents from the backward minorities. Of all the visiting teachers Prof. Mrinal Kanti Dowari known for being the authoring standard textbooks of higher secondary physics in west bengal remain an withstanding legacy to the Al-Ameen students. Despite most of the permanent teachers in Al-Ameen lacked what it takes to be an outstanding educator or orator during the golden age of Al-Ameen i.e. 2000 -2006(duration when the institution can be considered to have come of age), the dedication was notable regardless of their stature and meagre pay. And the students testimonials speaks out that loud. The success of Al-Ameen students is not just the success of the school but the enduring triumph of the devotion of the teachers to the most well known educational movement among Bengali Muslims in recent times. However, there are few teachers which needs to be mentioned for the unequivocal support to the side of the students, be it educational, sentimental, inspirational or motivational. Dr. Mosarraf Hossain, Amir Hossain, Harun Halder, Madat Ali, S.Zakaria, Syed Shaheed-ul Islam, Rabial Hossain Khan, Prof Susil Kumar Das, Sk Md Iyamin, Mridul Ahamed, Pervej Alam, Md Nur Alam, Dr. Gahul Amen, Dr.A. Khan, KMZ et al, muftiR. were the patrons. Many says has these teachers were not there, Al-Ameen would have been known a lot differently. And to a big extent Dr.Mosarraf Hossain can be safely assumed to be the role model of the students by popular judgement. Dr.Hossain and Syed Shaheed-ul Islam have left Al-Ameen shortly after 2006 to start new chapters of educational movement among Bengali Muslims.