Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School
The Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School is a higher secondary school in Rahara, Khardaha, West Bengal, India. The school was opened in 1949, five years after its foundation.[3] The school is run by the Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Authority under the guidance of Ramakrishna Mission at Belur Math. It is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.
| Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School (H.S.) | |
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| Address | |
Punyananda Street , , , 700118 | |
| Coordinates | 22.727531°N 88.382692°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Senior secondary |
| Motto | Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha (आत्मनो मोक्षार्थं जगद्धिताय च) (For one’s own salvation and for the welfare of the world) |
| Established | 16 August 1944 |
| Founded | 1 September 1944[1] |
| Opened | January 1949 |
| Founder | Swami Punyananda |
| Status | Active |
| Sister school | Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Junior Basic School, Rahara (JBS) Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home Junior High School, Rahara (JHS) |
| School board | WBBSE and WBCHSE |
| School district | North 24 Parganas |
| Authority | Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home |
| Category | Uchcha Madhyamik |
| Headmaster | Swami Muralidharananda |
| Grades | V–XII |
| Gender | Male |
| Number of students | 1269[2] |
| Medium of language | Bengali, English |
| Language | Bengali |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colour(s) | White & Khaki (Classes V-X) White & Grey (Classes XI-XII) |
| Song | Om Sahana Babatu |
| Website | rkmissionrahara |
History
Initially, the boys' home was founded on 1 September 1944, by Swami Punyananda, as an orphanage with a nuclear family of 37 boys, rendered orphan by the Great Famine of Bengal in 1942-1943.[4] The school obtained recognition as a High School from the Calcutta University in January, 1949. From 1957, it was upgraded to a Higher Secondary Multipurpose School with four streams, viz. Humanities, Science, Technical and Commerce. It has been sending up candidates for the Madhyamik Pariksha of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education since 1976 under the new pattern of Secondary Education.
In 1963, the Government of India selected it as one of the model multipurpose schools in the state.