Droopnath Ramphul State College

Droopnath Ramphul State College
Droopnath Ramphul
State College
Introduction & History
At Droopnath Ramphul SSS our mission is to provide to
our students a rich and varied educational setting for effective learning
and development. All available resources will be used to meet the needs of students of
different potentialities and talents. Quality will be the keynote of our endeavor and
we shall - staff, students and administration - strive to ensure the growth of our school
and make it one of the top state schools where quality education and service form part of
everyday life. All students will be given equal opportunity and our task will be to find
strengths in our children by ensuring that they work to their full ability. Values like
hard work, loyalty, honor, caring and sharing will be promoted and translated into action.
Our students should be able to integrate easily into their immediate surrounding now and
later on emerge from their education eager to learn and confident that they can join the
intellectual and work life of the country.
We consider parents to be our partners and will encourage parental interest in school life
and in the educational development of our students by establishing regular communication
between the school and the home. No effort will be spared to create in our school a climate
of trust, openness and solidarity. Our resource is our staff and each member of staff
teaching/non teaching will be brought to feel that his/her contribution is significant and
extremely valuable to the development of the school.

INTRODUCING DROOPNATH RAMPHUL SSS

Droopnath Ramphul State Secondary School took the name of QEC North
on 29 June 1995 when the 535 students of Forms II - VI met their 206 luckier
younger friends of form I already established in the new school since January 1995.
The School exists since 1975 has worked in difficult conditions through lack of
infrastructural facilities proper to a school until June 1995 when the promise for
a new school made in 1975 and renewed throughout the years finally materialized.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the school has a population which has been
brought to value discipline and hard work nurtured from the days spent in the former
railway station where it spent the past twenty years of its existence.
Despite of limited resources, Droopnath Ramphul SSS struggled hard to position itself on
the educational map at national level by establishing an atmosphere conducive to work and
learning and by promoting a wide range of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities aimed
at developing self-confidence, leadership skills and personality development among its students.
DRSSS intends to build on these strengths and to cultivate further a positive climate where teachers
and administration share common goals and are willing to make use of different strategies to make
the school win on all fronts. It is on the experience acquired in the past that we intend to build the future.

From a railway station to a five star school
Twenty years from now, a railway station was being converted into girls’ college.
It was during the wake of free education. Its aim was to found a star school in the north.
Twenty years of hard work and toiling! The teachers and students worked, worked, worked. Often
during the rainy seasons the roofs leaked; the laboratories proved their inefficiency. The library
was also mosquito infested. The rector and staff led a struggling fight to keep the school
running for the SC. and H.S.C exams. The Droopnath Ramphul people put all their love and care
in the school. But Hollanda, a terrible cyclone, shattered all this. The school was almost destroyed.
But the authorities didn't even let the students get wind of it. The lack of infrastructure was never
really a hindrance in the success of the school. True, lack of infrastructure always made its presence felt.
But this didn't stop the Ramphul girls from embracing high percentages and results in whatever competition they entered.
Dramas, debates, the MUN, all have seen the Ramphul girls parading with trophies and success.
But then the site at Pamplemousses was destined to be a temporary abode. After several foundation
stone laying ceremonies, building plans and modified budgets, work started on the site at Souvenir,
Calebasses, in 1994. The foundation stone was laid in the presence of Armoogum Parsuramen, by
Sir Aneerood Jugnauth on the 9th June of 1993.
It should have been the D-Day on 9th January 1995. But work had not been finished
yet on the school site. The form I students were enrolled in. on the 26th September 1995,
a memorable march from the DroopnathRamphul SSS at Pamplemousses was made to the new
“five-star” school at Souvenir. The administrative block, more commonly known as the
“Infernal Tower” by the fellow students, was not yet ready. The Inauguration ceremony
was held on the 5th June of 1995. The ceremony was held in great pomp and rejoicing.
The MBC didn't miss to cover the event of the year.
The new building is a breath-taking place. Those of u, outside the school who have
had the chance to come into this enchanting haven, will certainly agree with us. The
up-to-date laboratories, the sophisticated lecture theater, and modern gymnasium are more
than we could have asked for. And for that, we are grateful. We have put great love in our
school and we love it more than anything else but we also loved the old school which has lived
its day and honorably so! Fact remains that this new school is one of the most modern, if not the
most, of schools in Indian Ocean.
Long Live DRSC
And Long Live Its Success
And Fame!

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