South Suburban School (Main)
South Suburban School (Main) was established on 13th February in 1874. It was initially located at Hazra Pukur (now Jatin Das Park) in Kolkata. At that time it was known as South Suburban School, Kalighat. Pundit Sibnath Sastri was the first head-master of this school. After a few years the school's name was changed to South Suburban School, Bhowanipur. The school was relocated to Govinda Bose Lane i.e. its current location. The Secondary building of the school was built in 1888 by an Italian engineer and its primary building was built in 1908.
Asutosh College was established by this school. This school also has a history of helping other schools , including L.M.S. Institution (now known as South Suburban School (Branch)), Sir Ramesh Mitra Balika Vidyalaya and Chakraberia High School.
Notable alumni
The alumnus of this school includes
- Banglar Bagh Asutosh Mukhopadhay
- Uttam Kumar,A great Bengali Film-star
- Tarun Kumar,Famous character artist of Bengali Cinema
- Rabi Ghosh, Famous character artist and Comedian of Bengali Cinema
- Historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
- Footballer Sukumar Samajpati etc
- Dr. Subhash Chandra De, renowned surgeon & presently chairman of the alumni association
Activities
The school has an ACTIVE NCC curriculum having Army, Air and Naval wings and students of this school also participated in Republic Day March in Delhi.