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, in Asansol, India, in the western part of West Bengal, about 200 km from Kolkata. History Adjacent to St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, the enormous 390 bihgas, property (grassy, semi-cultivated land) had been initially purchased by Br A Ryan, the Provincial of the Brothers who intended to work on the project of relocating the Moorghihatta Orphanage. The job of supervising the erection of buildings was given to Br. Joseph Moyes. Dr. Meulman S.J., Archbishop of Calcutta, on 25 October 1919, laid down the foundation stone but it was only 10 years later in 1929 that its first batch of 29 students came, soon followed by 20 more . St. Vincent's was a boarding school, reputed for its sportsmen, till the early nineties. Currently it is a day school with strength of about 1850 students. The senior secondary welcomed girl students from the year 2009. Apart from the Industrial Training Centre, St. Vincent's also runs an NIOS (Class X & XII) Centre for over 1500 students. In 1895 the high school was sponsored by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Catholic society from Ireland that has undertaken missionary and education work worldwide. This group, informally known as the Christian Brothers, was founded by Sir Edmund Ignatius Rice. St. Vincent's High and Technical School is one of the 19 Christian Brothers schools in India. The foundation stone of St. Vincent's School was laid by Dr. Meulman S.J., Archbishop of Calcutta, on 25 October 1919. In 1914, when the Calcutta Improvement Trust was formed for opening up the congested parts of the city. One of the roads, 100 feet wide, was designed to run through Chowringee Road to the cathedral in Moorghihatta, where it was to run through the Catholic male orphanage. This would leave CMO without a playground and kitchen. On a visit to St Patrick's Asansol, Br. Arsenius Ryan, the provincial of the Brothers, inspected an open partly cultivated plot of 50 bighas as a possible site for the orphanage. The site was purchased and, with the addition of surrounding plots, it increased to 390 bighas, the property on which St. Vincent's now stands. Br Joseph Moyes was selected to superintend the erection of the buildings. In 1927 Br. Gabriel Pakenham was