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Al-Ameen Mission
Address
Khalatpur, Udaynarayanpur, Howrah, West Bengal
City Office: 53B, Elliot Road, Park Circus, Kolkata - 700016

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India
Information
Established1986; 38 years ago (1986)
FounderM. Nurul Islam
LanguageBengali, English
PublicationAl-Ameen Barta
Al-Ameen News Letter
Websitealameenmission.org

Al-Ameen Mission is a residential educational institute where located in the village Khalatpur in Howrah district of West Bengal, India. Established in 1986, it is now spread across 18 districts of the state with 76 branches. Currently, about 12 thousand residential students attend. About 20 thousand students have attended the institute.

History

The Secretary-General of the Mission, Nurul Islam, set up the Khalatpur Junior High Madrasa in 1976, when he was still studying his tenth standard. In May 1984, he started the Institute of Islamic Culture, setting up a hostel for the institute in 1986 in the Madrasa building itself, supplying it with the collection of one fistful of rice from every home in his village, Khalatpur. In January 1987, it was renamed to Al-Ameen Mission, inspired by the Al-Ameen Educational Society of Dr. Mumtaj Ahmed Khan and Ramkrishna mission. It was later financially supported by industrialist Mustaque Hossain and many others.[1][2]

Al-Ameen Mission follows the curriculum of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, but is transitioning to CBSE. A few new branches have been started, which are following the CBSE curriculum. In 2002, it was awarded "The Telegraph School Award for Excellence" which is shared with the South Point High School.[3]

Activities

As well as being an educational institute, Al-Ameen Mission also performs charitable work for the Muslim community. It has helped unemployed Muslims with loans and has started scholarship programs to help other communities' needy students.

On 19 May 2015, Al-Ameen Mission received the Banga Bhushan Award. For the past several years Al Ameen Mission has been lauded for lifting the underprivileged kids to the profession and out of poverty.[4]

Funding

The mission is mostly run by donation and zakat. Muslims throughout the country contribute their zakat to the Mission, which takes care of 25% of seats reserved for the poor, destitute, and orphans. It has received funding from many sources such as Pataka Industries Pvt. Limited, the Maulana Azad Education Foundation and the Board of Waqfs, West Bengal.

Campus

The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, is located at Khalatpur, Howrah.

Management

The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission is managed by a school board. The board of the main campus is also in charge of maintaining other sites. Across West Bengal, Al Ameen runs about 50 schools in total. Most of them are directly run by Al Ameen Mission and a few are located in remote village areas which are run by local non-profits for better management and service. These schools are listed as in "Collaboration with Al Ameen Mission." Aside from the details of management, these schools are identical to Al Ameen Mission's schools.

Teachers of Al-Ameen

Al-Ameen Mission has a large number of permanent teachers as well as visiting teachers from some reputed schools and colleges. The visiting teachers are often long-term associates of Al-Ameen, but not all of them are.

References

  1. ^ "Al-Ameen Mission". alameenmission.org. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. ^ "School Bells Echo Amidst Paddy Fields".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "At a glance: The telegraph school awards for excellence 2009". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. ^ http://www.totoppers.com