About Us

The Beginning

The Kirk View School, Gaya now affiliated to the Council for The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) was set up in Gaya in 1982, by the founder principal Manjulika Chatterjee as a Montessori based kindergarten. Since then, the school has grown to add primary and secondary levels.

The Founding Director and Founding Principal’s Guiding Light

The founding Director Mr. Debrabrata Chatterjee believed that holistic education laid the foundation to our future. It was with this vision that he founded the Kirk View Kindergarten in 1982. Mrs Manjulika Chatterjee, founding principal of Kirk View Kindergarten, had 37 years of experience dealing with pre-schoolers and in the setting up and running a school. She had worked as a teacher in Msingi Bora Kindergarten, Nairobi Kenya from 1976 to 1981, before she returned to India to set up Kirk View Kindergarten. She was trained in Montessori methods under Professor Justin – the personal representative of Maria Montessori in Kolkata in 1974

Management Board of Trustees

The Kirk View Foundation Trustees comprises of eminent personalities in the sphere of education and holistic child development.

Mrs Ranu Banerjee

The chairperson of the Kirk View Foundation has a degree in M.S. in Education from the Purdue University, USA and was an Instructor for Education for the Developmentally Young (EDY) at the Manchester University, UK. A recipient of the Rotary Foundation Scholarship for Teacher of the Handicapped, she is the mentor of several community based projects in West Bengal and is a trusted evaluator for educational projects.

Prabuddha Chatterjee

and the founding trustee of the Kirk View Foundation has spearheaded the school’s affiliation to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations in 2017. Bringing with him several years of experience in leading time bound television projects when he worked with Derek O’Brien and Associates, since 2007 Prabuddha has been leading the Kirk View School into the 21 century, dovetailing the much needed match of conventional teaching methods with Information Technology teaching aids.

Major General (Retd) SN Mukherjee

The Treasurer of the Kirk View Foundation, Major General (Retd) SN Mukherjee was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE), Gwalior. An extremely dedicated and highly motivated former officer of the Indian Army, he has post-graduate degrees in Engineering and Management and holds an M.Phil in Management. Gen Mukherjee has held the posts of President, Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS); Colonel Commandant, NCC; and Member Executive Council, Banaras Hindu University. In addition to his association with the Kirk View Foundation, he is also associated with the Chairman Peer Team NAAC, Accreditation/ Reaccreditation of Universities/ Colleges. He is the president of the Madhya Pradesh Football Association, president West Bengal Target Ball Association, vice president Society for Welfare of Children, president Armed Forces Ex officers’ association. He is also the visiting Professor at the Jadavpur University/Teaching Management, University paper setter /examiner on subjects of Management, Member in the Personality Test and final interview Boards for assessing candidates who have qualified in the main Civil Services Examination of the UPSC, Member in the Personality Test and final interview Boards for assessing candidates who have qualified in the Indian Engineering Service Examination & also Scientist Group “ D” of the UPSC, External Expert Member of Recruitment Assessment Board, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for promotion of Scientist at various levels.

Sushmita Malaviya

As a communications professional, Sushmita has been exploring the relationship between the environment and public health in India. For the past few years, she has been scaling up composting in three cities and writing about community experiences with waste management. Sushmita lives in between Delhi, Gaya and Bhopal and is exploring social enterprise endeavours in the waste and climate resilience space. The efforts to build a cadre of women and children who are agents of change for climate resilience are part of the endeavours too.

A journalist since 1989, Sushmita is currently working within communities spread over four contiguous villages in Gaya, Bihar, as well as in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Learning from farmers about their pain points with agriculture output, she is researching the intersections of environment, climate change and community health.

RP Chatterjee

Works to ensure value in delivering quality in the hospitality/service industry. With a career in the fast moving consumer goods sector for over 25 years, he also continues to work on solar projects in Nigeria where he had earlier contributed to non-conventional energy projects. Apart from working with leading MNCs like Nestle, Cadbury and PZ Cussons.

Dr Reena Sen

Retired as the Executive Director of the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata. She has a PG Diploma and Masters from the Institute of Education, University of London and the PhD is from Faculty of Education, University of London in ‘Reading: Factors Associated with Progress’. Dr Reena Sen specializes in literacy learning and intervention for specific difficulties in reading, writing, spelling and handwriting. She provides support to Kolkata schools for academic, emotional and behavioral problems through direct assessment, guidance for parents and teacher training. She has published several papers and received prestigious awards. She also teaches in the Calcutta University Teachers Training Certificate programme offered by the Modern Academy of Continuing Education, and provides consultancy inputs to a range of academic bodies.

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