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Kolkata: West Bengal Urdu Academy (WBUA), the chairperson of which is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, for the first time in its history organised a trip for school students where renowned poet Mirza Ghalib visited during his stay in Kolkata on Sunday. At 8.30 am, 360 school children from 13 different schools in the city assembled at Calcutta Madrasah. At 9 am, they left in bus to the sites which Ghalib visited during his stay in Kolkata between February 21, 1828 and October 1, 1829. We first visited National Library, Governor's House, Writers' Building, Shimla Bazar (now an area at Bidhannagar), Kathal Bagan mosque (near Moula Ali baba mausoleum and Calcutta Madrasah. We returned to Calcutta Madrasah at 2.20 pm," said Jawaid Akhter, teacher of Saifee Hall Golden Jubilee Public School..