Civic Reception to Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy

In 1924 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy — recipient of the first ever “Chemical Landmark Plaque” outside Europe by the Royal Society of Chemistry, who was also the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company — was appointed the first chairman of the Corporation’s “Education Committee” by then Mayor ‘Deshbandhu’ Chittaranjan Das. Acharya Roy, in his new role, blueprinted for the first time a proper, ‘vision-oriented’, modern syllabus for the Corporation’s Primary Schools.

It was, therefore, as a recognition of Acharya Roy’s immense contribution in shaping the City’s Primary Education system the Corporation decided to celebrate the 71^st birthday of this great ‘son of the soil’ — with a grand Civic Reception.

On December 10, 1932 — a Saturday — at Town Hall, Kolkata the then Mayor of Kolkata Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy — accorded Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy in a befitting ceremony with the Reception on behalf of his fellow citizens. On this occasion, Acharya Roy was also presented with a silver ‘Charka’ — an inimitable symbol of Swadeshi enterprise.