It is the second oldest educational institution in Udupi

The new building of the Board High School, now known as the Government PU College, which is celebrating its 125th year celebrations this year, will be inaugurated here on Friday.

The Board High School, located on 3.2 acres in the heart of the city near the Service Bus Stand, was established in 1890. It is the second oldest school in Udupi. It was called the Board Middle School when it first started functioning.

It has produced many illustrious students including the former Union Minister late T.A. Pai, the former Union Minister Oscar Fernandes, the former Minister late V.S. Acharya, and veteran journalist late M.V. Kamath.

Mr. Oscar Fernandes’s father late Roque Fernandes was the headmaster of this school from 1940 to 1948.

The institution now has both Kannada and English mediums from class 8 to 10, while its PU wing has courses in Arts, Commerce and Science streams.

It presently has about 150 students in the high school section and about 400 students in the PU college.

The existing building of the Board School used to serve as Magistrate’s Court and a jail during the British times. It got converted into the Board School in 1890.

The auditorium of the school, known as ‘People’s Hall’, was constructed in the mid-1940s.

The Board Middle School was upgraded into a high school in 1918, and as a Multipurpose High School in 1955. The PU college section was started in 1972. The institution is popularly known as Board High School because the Taluk Board and District Board administered it for a long time.

Most of the students coming to this institution now are from economically weaker sections.

The new building of the Government PU College is built at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crore due to the efforts of Mr. Oscar Fernandes, Pramod Madhwaraj, MLA, and the former Minister late V.S. Acharya.

source: http://thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National>  Karnataka / by Ganesh Prabhu / Udupi – October 02nd, 2015