GIRLS's SECTION
The girl inmates were lodged in a rented house at 2, Sharif Lane for a long time. The Orphanage succeeded
in purchasing the said house with the adjoining vacant land at 1/1 & 2, Sharif Lane measuring 23 cottahs
in all, in the year 1981. A scheme for development of the girls' section was drawn up. It was decided
that building complexes be constructed on the available land with an eye to arrange for the lodging
of at least 300 girls in the new building and to provide educatinal and vocational training facilities
for the girls. The Orphanage has only one primary school there at present. It was proposed to upgrade
the school in stages and to arranged for such facilities for vocational training for the girls as may
appear suitable and beneficial for them.
Thus, the plans were made, sanctioned by KMC and the foundation stone was laid on the 15th September
1991 for residential purpose of the girl inmates.
We are happy to state that construction on approximately 5000 sq.ft. of land was completed by the grace
of Almighty in 1994 and a new three storeyed modern building was inaugurated by the then Chief Minsiter
Shri Jyoti Basu on 29th Jan. 1995. The girl inmates are now housed in this new building.
Soon need was felt to build a school for girl inmates and other poor girls of the community in particular.
Therefore necessary plans were sanctioned by KMC and arrangements for construction were made.
His Excellency Dr. A.R. Kidwai, the then Governor of West Bengal laid the foundation stone of the school
building on 29th November 1998.
His Excellency was also kind enough to recommend our case for financial assistance to Maulana Azad Education
Foundation (Ministry of Social Welfare, Govt. of India) and a substantial grant of Rs. 15 lakh for the
school building was made available to us. Financial help of Rs. 10 lakh also came from MP LAD Fund of
Shri Jewan Behari Roy. The generous donation from our well wishers have enabled us to keep going and
we are thankful to all of them that with their whole hearted co-operation the school building was completed.
A total amount of Rs. 50 lakh was spent on its construction. H.E. the then President of India Dr. APJ
Abdul Kalam very kindly inaugurated this school building on Friday 27th February 2004. H.E. the Governor
of West Bengal Shri Viren J. Shah also attended the inaugural ceremony along with other VIP's.
On 27th May 1999, in recognition of our service towards the welfare of children, National Award was
very kindly bestowed upon The Calcutta Muslim Orphanage by the Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Govt. of India. His Excellency Mr. K.R. Narayanan, the then President of India graciously presented
this award at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi at a special function.