Rahara Ramakrishna Mission

Rahara, Khardaha, West Bengal, India is home to the Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home High School, a higher secondary institution. Five years after its founding, the institution finally opened its doors in 1949. Under the direction of the Ramakrishna Mission in Belur Math, the school is operated by the Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home Authority. Both the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education are connected with it.

Swami Punyananda initially established the boys’ home on September 1st, 1944, as an orphanage with a nuclear family of 37 boys who had been made orphans by the Great Bengal Famine of 1942–1943. In January 1949, the school received approval from the Calcutta University to operate as a high school. A Higher Secondary Multipurpose School with four streams—Humanities, Science, Technical, and Commerce—was converted to it starting in 1957. Since 1976, when the new secondary education model was implemented, it has been putting up candidates for the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education’s Madhyamik Pariksha.

It was chosen by the Indian government in 1963 to be one of the state’s leading multifunctional schools.