Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School
Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School (CSS High School) is an educational institute, established in 1906, in Girgaon area of Mumbai, Maharashtra State in India.
| Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School | |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Sheelam Param Bhushanam ('Character is the Greatest Virtue') |
| Established | 1906 |
| Grades | Class 5 - 10 |
| Campus size | 20 acre |
It has been a Marathi medium school since its inception and has recently incorporated an English medium section. CSS High School has been well recognized as the alma mater of top-ranking students in Maharashtra State Secondary School (SSC) Board Examinations year after year.
Alumni
CSS High School has provided excellent education to many generations of Maharashtrian students and has produced many Marathi writers, poets, scientists, economists, professors and doctors. Professor Anant Kanekar, a pioneer of "Laghukatha" (short stories) in Marathi, and famous writer Jaywant Dalvi are well-recognized alumni.
A well-known teacher was Vasudev Shankar Nabar (Nabar Sir), one of the famous principals of CSS High School, from 1974 until 1984. Nabar Sir is well known as the author of some of the Navneet guidebooks.
Notable alumni
The list is arranged in chronological order of alumni graduation year (in parentheses).
- Anant Atmaram Kanekar (1923)
- Jaywant Dalvi (1942)
- Uday Kirtikar (1962)
- Satish Chandratre (1963)
- Anil Sohoni (1964)
- Rekha Dattatray Dawajekar (1964)
- Dr.Pradeep Bapurao Bhosale (1975)
- Sanjay Kashinath Paithankar (1975)
- Anand Parshuram Birje (1977)
- Ashwini Rajaram Bhalerao (1977)
- Avinash Korgaonkar (1981)
- Abhay Rajaram Bhalerao (1982)
- Lalita Laxman Sawant (1983)
- Prasad Kale (1985)
- Shilpa Desai (1985)
- Yogesh Pawar (1986)
- Mrunal Potdar (1987)
- Bakht Pinaz (1988)
- Prasanna Suresh Kudchadkar (1989)
- Gaurav Sanjay Gondhalekar (1996)
- Pankaj Subhash More (2003)