Jhargram's Kharbandhi S.C. High School 2nd in All-India Science Competition

• Kharbandhi S.C. High School in Jhargram secured second place nationally in the All-India Science Innovation Competition.
• The school excelled in two categories, surpassing 8,000 schools in the ATL Tinkering Laboratory grant competition.
• Individual successes include Class 11 student Swapan Mohapatra (3rd), teachers Sudipta Maiti (2nd) and Biswajit Ghosh (3rd), and Headmaster Chanchal Pal (16th) at the all-India level.
• The competition featured 141 programs, including modern technology-based fire alarms, smoke detectors, and automatic traffic lights.
• Headmaster Chanchal Pal attributed the success to combined efforts and plans to expand science education in the future.

Why It Matters: This shows rural schools can achieve national science excellence.