Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School was established by the Vidya Bharati Society for Educational and Scientific Advancement with a view to explore new horizon with a team of enlightened dreamers. So, fifty nine good years back on 2nd November, 1965, under the able entrepreneurship of the erudite engineer and scientist, Late Sri P.K. Dasgupta and his wife Smt. Bharati Dasgupta, Bidya Bharati ventured forth on its new journey only with nine students in a rented house at New Alipore, Kolkata. By dint of perseverance and determination, courage and integrity Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School has set up a new milestone in academic and co-curricular fields.
At present the three units of Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School-Mominpore & Behala (Primary sections) and New Alipore (Secondary and Higher Secondary sections) stand glorified imparting the light of Knowledge to more than 4500 students. Bidya Bharati Girls’ High school was upgraded to a Higher Secondary School in the year of 1999.
Over the years under the able guidance of efficient teachers, students of Bidya Bharati have excelled in various fields. The achievements of Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School in the field of academics deserve special mention. In the year 1991, Rituparna Sen secured 8th position, in 1994, Indrani Paul secured 2nd position among girls, in 2008 Sanjukta Ghoshal secured 4th position among girls in the overall merit list of Madhyamik Examination. In 2010, Saheli Chowdhury stood 9th among girls in the Higher Secondary Examination.
Every year, majority of our students come out with flying colours securing more than 80% & star (*) marks in different subjects. The achievements of Bidya Bharati have not been limited to academic activities only. They have excelled in all kinds of co-curricular activities too. They have won laurels at national and international levels and taken part in exchange programmes.
Presently, teachers and students have started ‘Dipanwita’ an evening school, to spread the light of education among the street children under the guidance of our Hony. President Smt. Purnima Mukherjee and Headmistress Smt. Sharmistha Banerjee.
Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School has been nurturing the cause for the education of young minds over five eventful decades. The school which was started on 2nd November, 1965 with only 9 students, was the brainchild of Mr. Prafulla Kumar Dasgupta and Mrs. Bharati Dasgupta. Nursed tenderly and carefully at its initial stages with the love and devotion of its founder members, the school has now further blossomed under the able guidance of Mr. Shyam Sundar Agarwal and his son Mr. Mukul Agarwal.
In 1965, the school started with just a handful of students in a rented building.Today the institution boasts of three school buildings; a secondary and higher secondary section in New Alipore and primary sections in Mominpore and Behala. In this long journey the indomitable spirit of the institution has enabled it to meet both challenges and victories with equal fortitude. Every year, the remarkable performance of the students in the Secondary and Higher Secondary sections has been commendable. By dint of sheer perseverance, most of the students of our school have reached the apex of success and are now quite well established both at home and abroad. Their achievements are not only limited to the field of academics but also in other fields.
Dr. Anindita Chatterjee is a Clinical Psychologist working in Kolkata for the last 25 years. She is attached to the Peerless hospital, as Coordinator of child guidance clinic, Apollo clinic, Gariahat and Institute of child health. She was a Post doctoral scholar in Roehampton University, London and Fontys University, Netherlands. She is from the Applied Psychology department of Calcutta University. She is secretary and founder of Roopkatha Foundation which works majorly in rural areas in kaikala village in Tarkeshwar. The foundation works with 519 underprivileged children who are from the background of brick fields and labourers and farmers. She works on their educational skill and also provides nutritional food support so that the children get little encouragement. She is the founder of Star Mission Academy in an urban area under the foundation. Here she believes in Inclusion. Her work is to encourage the school dropouts and differently abled children to remain in the mainstream and there are many success stories behind this endeavour. She is the recipient of Erasmus Mundus scholarship and Australian Endeavour award, also she was elected as an ambassador for the Endeavour award. Her mission and vision is to make some difference in the lives of special need children and include them in the mainstream world.
