![]() ![]() Unfortunately the school was closed in 1927. Due to soaring success the school was converted to a National school in the year 1921. The school further secured an affiliation from Patna University in 1917. The school secured affiliation from the Calcutta University and for the first time matriculation exam was held in the year of 1914. Hugely motivated by the positive response he received from the people of Odisha the school was converted into a high school the following year. This effort of Pundit Gopabandhu Das played a key role to improve the education and social welfare of Odisha. ![]() In his mission to work for a better society and welfare of the common masses he established a school at a place called Satyabadi in 1909. He strongly believed that education had a huge role to play for the upliftment of the society. ![]() After had a consummate legal practice Pundit Gopabandhu Das decided to quit the profession for social work and mass education. Maharaja Shri Rama Chandra Bhanja Deo of Mayurbhanj held him with high esteem. It was Madhusudan Das, the leading Oriya statesman and lawyer, appointed him as the State pleader of the State of Mayurbhanj in 1909. ![]() During this period he was also appointed as a Government lawyer in Mayurbhanj court. Later he moved to the High court in Cuttack. Graduating in law from Calcutta University, he set up his practice at his home district of Puri. Pandit Gopabandhu Das arrived at his first job as a teacher in Nilagiri in Balasore district of Odisha but afterward he left the assignment to become a lawyer. Gopabandhu's experiment of bana bidyalaya is regarded as one of the most noble experiments in the field of education. Gopabandhu wanted to generate nationalistic feelings in students through education and teach them the value of service to man kind. Das laid emphasis on co-curricular activities too. His Satyabadi bana bidyalaya had features like residential schooling, teaching in a natural setting and cordial relationship between the teacher and the taught. His system allowed children of all castes and backgrounds to sit together, dine together and study together. He believed in education that could help the child to grow mentally, physically and spiritually. set in a natural surrounding of Bakul and Chhuriana trees, Bana bidyalaya was an epitome of the importance of naturalistic settings for students. Bana bidyalaya was to be a man making industry. He tried to make an experiment and came up with the bana bidyalaya. Gopabandhu was an admirer of the old gurukul ashrama system of education. He started this institution getting inspiration from Shantiniketan which was set up earlier by Kabiguru Rabindranath Thakur. Gopabandhu established his famous Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya in the year 1909, at Sakshi Gopal, a place of pilgrimage near Puri, the world-famous abode of Lord Jagannath and the great centre of Hindu pilgrimage. ![]()
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