Majhihira Ashram

About Majhihira Ashram
Majhihira was a remote and poor village in Manbhum region of Bihar (after the reorganization of states in 1956 it came under the newly created Purulia district of West Bengal). Shri Chittabhushan Dasgupta, the founder of the Institution and the youngest son of Rishi Nibaran Chandra Dasgupta, organizer of the freedom movement in Manbhum and close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, after completing training at Government Basic Training College, Patna in 1939. 
Since 1940 MNBEI is relentlessly pursuing the practice of Basic Education. It had moments of crisis as well as of introspection. In the first phase of “beginning and experimentation” (1940-1947) it had to face a grave situation. In the 1942 Quit India movement the Institution was declared “unlawful” by the British government, and was closed down. In 1946 the interim Congress Government returned the confiscated property to the Institution and gave compensation for the loss suffered.