Don Bosco High School, Guwahati
| Don Bosco High School, Guwahati | |
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Panbazar Guwahati India |
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| Coordinates | 26°11′06″N 91°44′45″E / 26.185126°N 91.745929°ECoordinates: 26°11′06″N 91°44′45″E / 26.185126°N 91.745929°E |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Virtus et Scientia (Latin; Virtue and Knowledge) |
| Established | February, 1948 |
| Principal | Fr. Sebastian Mathew, sdb |
| Number of students | 2400 |
| Houses | Phukan Lachit Bordoloi Bezbaruah |
| Affiliation | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Website | www.donboscoguwahati.net |
Don Bosco School is a Senior Secondary school located in Guwahati, Assam. It is a Catholic school founded on the teachings of Saint John Bosco, and is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco. Started in 1948, Don Bosco is one of the leading private schools in the North-Eastern states. It currently operates 12 standards, divided into Primary, Middle, High and Higher Secondary sections. The school is managed by a Principal, with Vice Principals and Teacher-Coordinators operating under him. The school currently houses 2400 students.
Our Lady’s Orphanage, a school for poor and abandoned boys of the Assam plains was the predecessor of the current high school. It inaugurated on 24 May 1926, by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Mathias S.C.D.D., Prefect Apostolic of Assam. At the time, a residence and a workshop were constructed. The technical school began in 1928 with 12 students. It then exponentially grew into two large workshops with 200 students by 1938. The name Our Lady’s Orphanage was then changed to Don Bosco Technical School, Guwahati. In 1937, the school operated classes I to IV. During the Second World War, it was taken over by the army in June 1942 and the school was closed.
In February 1948, at an inaugural ceremony presided over by Dr. Bhubaneswar Barua, the school was formally restarted with an enrollment of 92 students in five classes from III to VII. Mr. Har Mohan Das was the headmaster and the first principal was Rev. Fr. Attilio Colussi.
The opening of Class VIII was approved by the director of public instruction in February,1948. The school was affiliated to Gauhati University in 1951 and its candidates were permitted to appear for matriculation in the year 1952, when 9 out of 12 students of the Tenth Standard appeared and eight succeeded. Mr. Nirmal Kumar Choudhury, former Vice Chancellor of Gauhati University, was one of them. Parts of the school buildings were used by Assam Civil Engineering School prior to 1948 and by Gauhati University in 1948. Public demand in 1958 led to the beginning of the English section from Class VIII with required permission from the University. Class IV, V and VI in the English section started in 1962.
In 1980 the pre-primary and primary sections were opened. With the addition of pre-primary and primary sections, the school rapidly grew in size and status. It was the first school in the North-East to have computer education (which began in 1987), an auditorium and sports complex (1993), and a meteorological observatory center (2002). As the 20th century drew to a close, Don Bosco had formed a prominent foothold among the education institutes of the North-East.
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