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Every alumnus of Christ the King belongs to a particular moment in this story — the rented rooms, the first campus, the first ICSE batch, the primary school across town. This is the record of our alma mater, told from the side of the people who passed through it.
Christ the King Inter College, Tundla is a minority Christian institution, managed and administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Agra Education Society. It has taught the children of this town for more than five decades, and the alumni association exists because those years left a mark worth keeping hold of.
What follows is the college's institutional history — the dates, the affiliations, the buildings. But for anyone who studied here, it reads as something more particular than that: a way of locating your own batch inside a much longer story.
Christ the King Inter College is founded in Tundla by the late Most Rev. Dr. Dominic Athaide (OFM Cap), then Archbishop of Agra. It begins life in rented buildings — the first batches study in borrowed rooms, years before a campus of their own exists.
After six years in rented premises, the present campus is inaugurated. For alumni of the 1970s, this is the dividing line in their school memories: those who studied before the move, and those who arrived after.
The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi — a decision that shaped the academic path of every batch since.
The first ICSE cohort graduates, and does so with distinction. They remain the college's founding examination batch — the standard every year afterwards measured itself against.
Following a new plot of land secured in September 2007 by the Most Rev. Dr. Albert D'Souza, the first phase of Christ the King Primary School opens on Independence Day.
The move happens in stages: the KG section in July 2009, classes I to III in July 2010, and by April 2012 the entire primary section from LKG to Class V is functioning on the new campus.
The college is upgraded for Plus Two studies, and the first ISC batch — Science and Commerce streams — commences, graduating in 2012. Students no longer have to leave Tundla after Class X.
The Christ the King Inter College Alumni Association exists to keep these batches connected to each other and to the school — through reunions and alumni meets, through mentoring students who are sitting in the same classrooms we did, and through supporting the institution that shaped us.
Historical dates and institutional details are drawn from the published record of Christ the King Inter College, Tundla. If you spot an error or can add to this account, tell us — several of these years are better remembered by the people who lived them.