A Brief History of Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home Primary Teachers’ Training Institute, Rahara
Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home Primary Teachers’ Training Institute (PTTI), earlier known as J.B.T.C and later J.B.T.I, abides the spirit of Swami Vivekananda about essence of education: “Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”
There is no doubt that after independence a large number of trainees have become highly qualified and successful in their professional life. Empowerment through their all-round development through training is our cherished motto. Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home Primary Teachers’ Training Institute (P.T.T.I), Rahara, come into being in 1957, seven years after the Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home,Rahara, had started its journey as on Orphanage way back in 1944 under the able leadership of Revered Srimat Swami Punyanandaji Maharaj. At first, the J.B.T.C obtained recognition as a training institute in January 1957. The Government of West Bengal pertained permission for training. From the beginning it was a residential institution. Later the name at this institute has been changed in from J.B.T.C to J.B.T.I. and off late P.T.T.I with D.EL.ED curriculum. Now it offers two years programme and functioning as a non-residential institution. The institute intakes 50 trainees per year as per N.C.T.E order. It is a N.C.T.E recognised, affiliated by West Bengal Board of Primary Education and sponsored by S.C.E.R.T Government of West Bengal. This institute has one admin block, one staff room, fully furnished, well equipped classrooms and necessary LABs. Studded with flowering plants and gardens it also has book-borne library, computer lab and a large playground inside the Ashrama campus. Only the male candidates are admitted here on the basis of marks obtained in Higher Secondary Exam as per N.C.T.E norms.
This Institute always makes effort for implementing ‘Man making and character building’ ideas of education as propounded by Swami Vivekananda. This Institute has made an excellent tradition of good results over the years.
