Bidhannagar Municipal School | |
Native Name: | বিধাননগর মিউনিসিপ্যাল স্কুল |
Motto: | श्रद्धावान लभते ज्ञानम् |
Motto Translation: | The believer attains knowledge |
Streetaddress: | FE 175/1 |
Zipcode: | 700106 |
Country: | India |
Coordinates: | 22.5825°N 88.4189°W |
Principal: | Anshuman Saha |
Teaching Staff: | 100 |
Gender: | Co-Ed |
Grades: | First Grade to Twelfth Grade |
Houses: | Blue Green Yellow Red |
Affiliations: | West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education |
Sports: | Soccer, Cricket |
Student Union Label: | Fandom |
Student Union: | BMSIANS |
School Colors: | Blue and Yellow |
Yearbook: | Pratuysh |
Established: | 1997 |
Bidhannagar Municipal School is a school in Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City), Kolkata, India. It is affiliated to West Bengal Board of Secondary Education[1] and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education[2]
The school was founded in 1997, with the first classes being held in Acharya Prafulla Chandra School, BK Block, Salt Lake. The school moved to its new building in FE Block soon afterwards.[3] The inauguration ceremony was on 1 July 1999, led by the then West Bengal Hon’ble Finance Minister Dr. Ashim Dasgupta and Hon’ble Higher Education Minister Satyasadhan Chakraborty.
The four-story building has a triangular shape with a small courtyard in the middle. A playground is beside the main building. The school has laboratories and equipment for sports. It encourages students to take part in cultural programmes and inter-school competition, including painting, debate and chess competitions.
The school 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. At the +2 level, there are Science, Humanities and Commerce streams.
Students participate in an intra-school cultural event and competition every year known as the Shikhharthi Utsav (students' festival),[4] and Foundation Day is celebrated every year on 1 July. Soccer championships, kabaddi competitions, quizzes, debate competition and an annual sports day[5] are held.