Garden High School (GHS) , Kasba , Kolkata

BRIEF OF THE SCHOOL

Garden High is an English-medium coeducational school. It was established in 2000 by the Satikanta Guha Foundation. This School is an attempt to give a ‘local habitation and a name’ to the vision that Satikanta Guha and his wife, Prity Lata, had tried to give shape to in founding South Point. That vision is shared by all who have played a part in establishing this School and are involved in its present management.The School is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), New Delhi, for the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) examinations.

The school's motto ‘Let knowledge lead to wisdom, and wisdom to emancipation.’ echoes what many thinkers of many lands and many ages have said in many different ways: knowledge is not enough, and mere knowledge may dazzle and make one blind. Learning must lead to wisdom which gives one the capacity to see things in a proper perspective, and enables one to grow out of oneself. It is through wisdom that emancipation comes. Very few can attain it, but it is this straining after a goal, knowing that it will probably always be beyond one’s reach, that makes a man, a man.

Location, Building & Facilities

The School premises at Hatirsur (Rajdanga), off the Rashbehari Connector, measure in all 105 cottahs or 1.75 acres approximately.

The main School building, with a total covered area of about 70,000 sft, has spacious, airy, and bright classrooms, a seminar room (2340 sft), an examination/assembly hall (3500 sft), two music rooms, a games room, a medical room, a large well-stocked library, an art and craft room, an audio-visual room, fully-equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, home science, and computer studies, and administrative offices. All the offices, seminar room, examination hall, medical room, computer laboratories, library, audio-visual room, games room, and teachersí rooms are air-conditioned. There are two generators (320 kVA) and two lifts.

An annexe, about 37,700 sft in all, on the extreme east of the School premises, now houses classes from Nursery I to Class II. The annexe also has a waiting room, a medical room, a computer laboratory, a library, and a music room. The Directorís office (Nursery & Primary Department), waiting room, teachersí rooms, medical room, and computer laboratory are all air-conditioned. There are two lifts, a generator (125 kVA), and a water purification plant.

In compliance with the directions of the Fire Department, Government of West Bengal, both the main building and the annexe have adequate fire-fighting arrangements, including two water reservoirs (150,000 litres & 100,000 litres), separate fire pumps, and smoke detection sensors.

Nearly 5,000 sft of the covered area on the ground floor of the main building is open on all sides. In addition, a total area of about 58,000 sft (about 80.5 cottahs) of vacant land is available at present as a playground.