Sainik School Purulia is one of the 24 Sainik Schools in the country and the only English medium residential public school in the state of West Bengal. It was established in the year 1962 under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence for the benefit of the comparatively weaker sections of the society and for the removal of regional imbalances in the officer’s cadres of Defence Services in India. The school is situated in the idyllic foreground of the Ayodhya Hills, covering an area of 279 acres of land on the Purulia-Ranchi Road, 04 km away from Purulia town, which is a district headquarters.
The main aim of the school is to prepare its boys mentally, physically and academically through a balanced curriculum for a career in commissioned ranks of the Armed Forces through National Defence Academy, besides making them ready with adequate leadership potential and confidence to take up the challenging professions in other important walks of public life and also to become good and useful citizens of tomorrow. The School imparts 10 + 2 (Science stream only) pattern of education under the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi and is a member of IPSC
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