St. Vincent's High And Technical School
St. Vincent’s High and Technical School (known as SVTS) is one of the oldest schools in eastern India. It is a kindergarten through 12th grade school of secondary education, located in Asansol, India, in the western part of West Bengal, about 200 km from Kolkata (Calcutta).
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