About
Establishment and
Mandate
West Bengal Board of Primary Education is an autonomous body under the Government of West Bengal in the Department of School Education. It was established on 1st January in the year of 1975 by the West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973 (West Bengal Act XLIII of 1973) to make a better provision for the development, expansion, management and control of primary education with a view to make it universal, free and compulsory.
Apex
Elementary Education Regulator
Government of West Bengal in
School Education Department (Elementary Branch)
Smt Mamata Banerjee
Hon'ble Chief Minister
of West Bengal
Shri Bratya Basu
Hon'ble Minister-in-Charge Departments of School Education and Higher
Education
Government of West Bengal
Shri Binod Kumar,IAS
Principal Secretary
Department of School Education
Government of West Bengal
Message
of
PRESIDENT
Ad hoc Committee
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Professor Dr. Goutam Paul
President, Ad hoc Committee
&
Professor
Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Former Dean of Science
Kalyani University
Message of President
West Bengal Board of Primary Education is the apex academic regulator of primary (elementary) education in the State of West Bengal. The board has served a commendable role during the last one decade in improving environment, infrastructure, classroom ambience, curricular contents, evaluation method, student feedback process, health care and student's co-curricular activities in all Government aided and Government sponsored primary schools across the State. Read View
Ad hoc Committee
of
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Professor (Dr.) Goutam Paul
President, Ad hoc Committee
&
Professor
Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Former Dean of Science
Kalyani University
Prof. Sibaji Pratim Basu
Vidyasagar University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr. Swati Guha
Director, Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Prof. Manojit Mandal
Jadavpur University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr. Swagata Das Mohanta
Principal, Sarojini Naidu College
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Prof. Sougato Paul
Gour Banga University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Prof. Sauren Bandyopadhyay
Vice Chancellor, West Bengal State University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Prof. Sonali Chakrabarti Banerjee
Chairperson, West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Prof. Pinaki Roy
Raiganj University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr. Ramanuj Ganguly, President
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, President
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Sri Bijan Sarkar
Assistant Teacher, Kulti Junior High School
Member
Ad hoc Committee
The President
West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr. Syed Tanveer Nasreen
Professor, Department of History, The University of Burdwan
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Dr.Siddique Alam Beg
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Raiganj University
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Sri Alok Kumar Shukla
Assistant Teacher, Kuthirpara Primary School
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Sri Subarna Kumar Mandal
Head Teacher, Kuthirpara Primary School
Member
Ad hoc Committee
Appeal Committee
of
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Constituted under Section 91(2) read with Section 5(1) of West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973
Dr. Durga Khaitan, WBJS
Chairperson, Appeal Committee, WBBPE
Internal Complaints Committee
of
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education with the following members under PoSH Act, 2013 to prevent, prohibit and redress sexual harassment of the women at workplace (at the office of West Bengal Board of Primary Education, 'APC Bhawan', DK-7/1, Sector-II, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700091)
- Ms.Nilanjana De, WBA&AS, Controller of Finance, WBBPE - Presiding Officer
- Mr Koushik Biswas, WBLS, Law Officer, WBBPE - Member
- Mrs. Momita Mitra (Ghosh), Bengali Stenographer, WBBPE - Member
- Dr. Nabanita Basu, Assistant Professor in Bengali, Govt. General Degree College, Singur - Member
Officers
of
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Shri Ranjan Kumar Jha, WBCS (Exe)
Secretary
Dr. Partha Karmakar, WBES
Deputy secretary
Ms. Nilanjana De, WBA&AS
Controller of Finance
Shri Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya, MA, LLB, District Judge (Retired)
Legal Advisor
Shri Koushik Biswas, WBLS
Law Officer
Recent Activities
of
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
11th December, 2022
Conducted successfully Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) (for Classes - I to V), 2022
TET-2022 held on: 11th December, 2022. Number of candidates appeared in TET-2022: 6,19,102 Result of TET-2022 published on: 10th February, 2023
20th Feb, 2023
Organized 38th State Level Annual Sports Meet, 2023
The West Bengal Board of Primary Education had organized the 38th State Level Annual Sports Meet held at Biswa Bangla Krirangan (Sports Complex), Sports Authority of India STC, Jalpaiguri on 18th and 19th...
7th April 2023
Organized Two Day State Level Symposium on Orientation Training of Teachers of Primary Schools
The West Bengal Board of Primary Education had organized a Two Day State Level Symposium on Orientation Training of Teachers of Primary Schools ...