Education
There are three colleges and many high schools in Alipurduar town. Some of the schools, namely, Alipurduar High School, Mc William Higher Secondary School, Jitpur Higher Secondary School, Railway Higher Secondary School, Shayamaprasad Vidya Mandir (boys and girls), Kendriya Vidyalaya,Newtown Girls' High School, Balika Siksha Mandir, Alipurduar Girls' High School, Gobinda High School are reputed and big in size. Beside the government aided schools, there a few private schools of which the Stepping Stone Model School and the Little Flowers English School are important.Alipurduar College is the premier institute of higher education in the whole of the Alipuduar Sub-Divisionin, in the near future to be declared as a district. Apart from the Vivekananda College, Alipuduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya is also growing, though in a slow pace.There are all the streams - science, arts and commerce - in Alipurduar College.Though it is overburdened with the load of 5000 students, the teachers are trying to impart quality-education within the ambience of the N.B.U. syllabuses.Some of the departments specifically Mathematics, Physics, History and Bengali are of the mark in their academic performance. Alipurduar College has the credit of copyright to a very important book of contemporary history entitled, Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal Since 1947 edited by Sailen Debnath. Apart from this, the college has published so far two books and two anthologies. The books are: 1. Philosophical and Political Thought of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1998, by Sailen Debnath; 2. A Compendium of Gandhism, 1998, by Sailen Debnath; and the anthologies are: 1. International Year of Physics: Approaches & Understanding,2006, with a preface by Sailen Debnath; and, 2. The Need and Prospects of Vocational Education in Undergraduate Colleges in West Bengal,2008, edited by Sailen Debnath.
- Alipurduar College: Dr. Subrata Panchanan, Principal
- Vivekananda College: Dr. Ratna Dey, Teacher-in-Charge
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