Mitra Institution (Main)

Mitra Institution (Main) is a heritage educational institution of Kolkata, West Bengal, teaching grades one to twelve under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. The school premises are situated at 60-B Surya Sen Street, near Sealdah. There is a different co-educational primary and a girls school section up to class X.^[1]

Mitra Institution (Main)
Address
60-B Surya Sen Street Kolkata , West Bengal , 700 009 India
Information
Type	Government
Religious affiliation(s)	Secular
Established	5 January 1898; 127 years ago (5 January 1898)
Founder	Bisweswar Mitra
School board	WBBSE & WBCHSE
Authority	Government of West Bengal
Category	Higher Secondary
Chairman	Governor of West Bengal
Principal	Sayantan Das (Head Master)
Years offered	120
Gender	only boys upto X and HS section CO-ED
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	West Bengal Board of Secondary Education West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

History

The school was established by Babu Bisweswar Mitra on 5 January 1898. Initially it started with only five students. In 1901, Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee became the first President of the school. After the recognition of University of Calcutta in 1904, the school became famous. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee and Sir Alexander Pedlar, the then Vice Chancellor, helped the institution to grant affiliation of the university. Bipin Chandra Pal, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Sir Bhupendra Nath Bose, Amritlal Bose visited Mitra Institution (Main) and became involved with its affairs.^[2]

Alumni

Others

Name	Year	Degree	Notability	References
Saumyendranath Tagore	1917	Matriculation	Political ideologue, essayist	[3]
Bishnu Dey			Poet, essayist	[4]
Nirendranath Chakravarty		Matriculation	Poet, translator, novelist	[5]
Debi Prasad Pal		Matriculation	Advocate, Legislator, Union minister of India	[6]

See also

• List of schools in Kolkata
• List of schools in West Bengal