Techno India Group Public School Balurghat, or Balurghat Techno India Group Public School. or TIGPS, Balurghat is an English medium co-ed school following CBSE in Balurghat, West Bengal, India. The classes range from Pre-school playgroup to Class XII. However, for the 2022–2023 school year, it contains classes up to XII. The school has around 900 pupils.

Affiliation

Central Board of Secondary Examination the following board of TIGPS, Balurghat. CBSE-based examinations are held in the academics session.

Academics

The school has different subjects for each age group:

• For playgroup classes: English, Rhymes, Maths
• For kindergarten and nursery classes: English, Bengali/Hindi, Maths, E. V. S.
• For classes 1, 2: English, Bengali/Hindi, Maths, E. V. S. , computer science
• For classes 3, 4: English, Bengali/Hindi, Maths, E. V. S. , computer science, general knowledge.
• For class 5: English, Bengali, Hindi, maths, computer science, E. V. S, general knowledge.
• For classes 6, 7, 8: English, Bengali, Hindi, Maths, science, computer science (I.T./A.I.), social science (history, geography, civics), general knowledge.
• For class 9: English, Bengali/Hindi, Maths, science, information technology, social sciences (history, geography, pol. sci., economics)
• For class 10: English, Bengali/Hindi, Maths, science, information technology, social sciences (history, geography, pol. sci., economics)

The school conducts four formative assessments and two summative assessments per year. It follows the new CCE (comprehensive and compulsory examinations) scheme for academics. Special audio/visual classes are taken for every class regularly.

Co-curricular activities

Extracurricular classes include dance or music and sports like cricket, football, badminton, carrom and table tennis. Specialised coaching is given to boys and girls in cricket and football. Workshops are held in the vacations to enrich students' knowledge.

Houses

The students are divided into four competing houses — , Netaji House (red) Teresa House (blue), Tagore House (green), Vivekananda House (orange). Among the four houses, competitions are held every year, including debate, elocution, dance, music, science quiz, and sports such as cricket, football, kho kho, kabaddi, badminton and others. Netaji House were the champions from 2010 to 2012. Netaji House is the best performing house in all the spheres of co-circular activities as well as in games. Students from Netaji House had won the dramatic competition, the extempore competition, the elocution competition as well as the inter-house quiz competition in the academic year of 2022–2023. Vivekananda won the sports meet in the years 2013 and 2019.

Performances outside school

TIGPS Balurghat has won prizes for performances outside the school.

It won first prize in dance in 2010 and 2011, 3rd prize in 2012, and 2nd prize in the Republic Day celebrations at Balurghat Stadium. From 2011 to 2013 it won the first prize in Tableau. It thus made a record of hattrick in Tableau in the Republic Day celebrations.

Carnival

In the Carnival of TIG 2008, Balurghat won 6 medals (1 gold,2 silvers and 3 bronzes) and became 4th among all TIGPS schools. In the Memory Test, Balurghat became the most successful among all schools, collecting all the three medals — Gold, Silver and Bronze.

In the next Carnival in 2010, Balurghat came to be second, after TIGPS, Hooghly. Balurghat won 6 medals (along with 2 third positions). The Medal tally consisted of 2 golds,4 silvers and 2 third positions.

Balurghat Techno has been most successful in the category of Memory Test, winning 4 medals. It is followed by Fancy-Dress Competition with 2 Medals.

Sources

• Techno India Group prospectus.