Other Facilities
Laboratories
The first science laboratory was started in our school in the 1950s, by one of our visionary teachers (L) Shri Satyendra Nath Dutta, with the intended purpose of encouraging a curiosity within our students on the scope and excitement of scientific experimentation. An outgrowth of this was a ‘Science Club’, that had functioned here in the early 1960s.
The ‘Dr. Mrinmoy Ghosh Science Laboratory’ continued this tradition from its creation in 1993 and was eventually incorporated into the curricular and infrastructural framework of our ‘Higher-Secondary Section’ in 1997.
Our laboratories are now divided into four separate subject domains viz, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science, which are housed within suitably spacious halls. The Physics Laboratory is well-equipped with a range of perfectly functioning instruments for the practical courses of the higher-secondary classes, while the Chemistry and Biology laboratories are replete with a full range of chemicals, reaction apparatus, information charts and biological specimens, as are needed for all requisite analyses.
The Computer Laboratory caters to the course needs of both the secondary and higher-secondary classes and currently has 22 computers with power back-up, out of which 17 are almost new. Among other devices and learning aids, the laboratory has a laser-printer, a ‘Dotmatrix’ printer, white boards, projector screens and broadband internet connectivity.
Library
The ‘Hara Kumar Memorial Library’ has for decades, been a well-stocked repository of books from both within contemporary school curricula as well as volume-sets of encyclopaedias, abridged literary exemplars and classics of children’s literature from around the world. It has functioned under the supervision of one among the school’s faculty, who serves as its librarian.
For the next few years, we have envisaged a set of upgrades for our library, in terms of improving its seating and reading facilities, creating a digital catalogue of all its existing books and also, in having a diverse range of e- and audio-books available for use by our students.
Auditorium
The ‘Satish Chandra Sikidar Memorial Hall’ is the main assemblage space for our gatherings and cultural programmes. It assumes a comfortable seating capacity of about 250 people and has a well-illuminated performance dais with favourable frontal acoustics.
Looking ahead, there are plans for dedicated facilities within the auditorium that are intended to engage our students in a range of indoor games and sports and also, more ambitiously, for a fully-functioning ‘Multi-media Educational Studio’ inside it. We anticipate these as meaningful steps in greatly enriching our educational ambit and the latter, specifically, in enabling a measure of parity with the most modern teaching methods being practiced globally.