Nava Nalanda High School is a

co-education Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

al institution in South

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, affiliated to the

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination (or secondary school level examination) of West Bengal, India. It has come into force ...

for

Madhyamik Madhyamik Pariksha or simply Madhyamik ( bn, মাধ্যমিক) is a centralised examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষদ) in West B ...

Pariksha (10th Board exams), and to the

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for Uchcho Madhyamik Pariksha (12th Board exams).It was founded on 1st February 1967 by Bharati Mitra & Arya Mitra.

Sport

Nava Nalanda High School has won the CAB Mayor's Cup Cricket (U-15) in 2018 as well as 2019. The School scored 844 runs in 45 overs against Gyan Bharati Vidyalaya, on 22 February 2016, to set a record score for a

Cricket Association of Bengal Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is the governing body for cricket in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its headquarters are located in the Eden Gardens stadium, Kolkata. It is a full member of Board of Control for Cricket in India. It gover ...

school cricket tournament. They won the match by a record 812 runs.

Notable alumni

Lagnajita Chakraborty Lagnajita Chakraborty, born in a Bengali family in Kolkata, India, is an Indian playback singer. Lagnajita Chakraborty is a Bengali playback singer. She achieved fame with a soulful track in the movie ''Chotushkone'' called " Basanto Eshe Gech ...

, singer *

Aneek Dhar Aneek Dhar (born 26 April 1990 in Kolkata) is an Indian singer who started his musical career at the age of 17 winning Zee TV Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 and Zee Bangla SaReGaMaPa both in the same year. He also was the winner of Bigg Boss Ba ...

, singer *

Poulomi Ghatak Poulomi Ghatak (Bengali: পৌলমী ঘটক; born 3 January 1983) is a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships (1996, 1998 and 1999) as well as seven senior national championships between ...

, table tennis player *

Mimi Mondal Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is an Indian speculative fiction writer based in New York. She writes in many genres, including science fiction. Mondal is the co-editor of ''Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler'', an anthology of letter ...

, writer *

Raja Venkat Raja Venkatraman (born 7 September 1958), better known as Raja Venkat, is a former Indian first-class cricketer and national team selector. He played for Bengal cricket team between the 1980/81 and 1991/92 seasons. He was part of the Indian te ...

, cricketer * Abhishek Banerjee , Politician

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.navanalanda.org.in/ Primary schools in West Bengal High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata Educational institutions established in 1967 1967 establishments in West Bengal