15th September, 2024 - This day, we celebrate our Golden Jubilee. We have come so far yet it seems like it was only yesterday that I would drive these children to their homes after the school. That was 1974. Then, Siliguri was sparsely populated and getting from one place to another was rather quite easy. How times have changed, how this sleepy little town with a few hundred people has now transformed into the most important town in North Bengal.
With the passage of time, the number of schools have increased. To almost a dozen catering to one locality. Big corporate houses too have seemed to join in with giant group of companies with their deep pockets and flamboyant marketing have seemed to attract many. Fees have sky rocketed too, especially now, post the COVID lockdown making private educations rather expensive. Soon, this struggle for market supremacy between the various corporate houses will create a market leaving the new generations of the parents to face the brunt of ever-increasing fees. It will soon become a challenge for an average household to afford quality education, just as is the case in the Tier I and Tier II cities.
That is where I hope schools like ours will be sought after, where we have tried to stay true and firm to the purpose of imparting, irrespective of anyone’s economic background, affordable education along with providing necessary facilities, employing hardworking teachers who nurture and care for our children and instilling in them essential values. It has been this constant endeavour of ours to impart knowledge and instill moral values, the desire to achieve success through relentless PERSEVERANCE- a unique & indispensable virtue, necessary for the fruitful outcome of any journey. It is the virtue that has been incorporated as the motto of our school. It has always inspired us during the course of our life, especially when faced with adversities, always reminding us to ‘Never Quit.’
