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[email protected] website: www.alameenmission.in facebook.com/alameenmission.newsletter (M Nurul Islam) A R C H I V E School Bells Echo Amidst Paddy Fields In 1986, Nurul Islam set up a hostel with 11 students, collecting one fist of rice from every home in his village, Khalatpur. In January 1987, it was named as Al-Ameen Mission which has today become a model for excellent education standards. By A Staff Reporter are over 300 students following the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education syllabus. The Al-Ameen In a country like India, we cannot leave the less privileged Mission receives over 6000 applications for admissions to the merciless hands of the market forces. The solution from the whole of West Bengal. The admission test is to this problem perhaps lies somewhere, far away from held at 28 centres. The students go through a pre-se- the issue of reservations in higher education that is ter- lection exam, an interview and a test of reasoning. The ribly resented by the more meritorious. In a village called intake of students for the campus is around 500 to 600.