NS Road
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Nawab Sirajuddaula Road
NS Road | |
|---|---|
| নবাব সিরাজউদ্দৌলা সড়ক এনএস রোড | |
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| Route information | |
| Maintained by Kushtia Municipality | |
| Length | 2.7 km (1.7 mi) |
| Major junctions | |
| East end | Raja Bhuvan Pratap Roy Road (Bouro Bazar Rail Gate) |
| West end | Girjanath Majumdar Road (Municipal area) |
| Location | |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Highway system | |
Nawab Sirajuddaula Road (previous name: High Street) is the main and busiest road of Kushtia city. The road is known as NS Road. Economic and business activities of Kushtia mainly depend on this road. The road is named after Nawab Sirajuddaula.[1]
It is an ancient road, there are many ancient and important buildings and institutions of the city along this road. These are (east to west)-
- Bouro Bazar market
- Ashok Dadhi Bhandar,An ancient and traditional sweet shop
- Dinmani Secondary School (1930)
- Lovely Tower (1999), Kushtia's first ever 10-storey building and modern shopping mall
- Kushtia Government Girls High School (1876)
- Parimal Tower
- Bangabandhu Super Market
- Municipality Market
- Zilla Parishad Super Market
- Kushtia Central Mosque
- Kushtia Islamia College
- Kushtia Public Library
- District Registry Office
- Kushtia Model Police Station Office
- Kushtia Mission Secondary School
- Kushtia High School (1861)
- Residence of the Executive Engineer
- Kushtia Municipal Office
Naming history
[edit]At one time this road was called High Street. The road was renamed Nawab Shaheed Sirajddaula Road to preserve the memory of the last independent Nawab of Bengal-Bihar-Orissa . Later Nawab Sirajuddaula Road was renamed after removing the word Shaheed . Which is now known to people as NS Road.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Anwar Ali (March 2019). Milon Sarkar; Md. Monirul Islam (eds.). সার্ধশতবর্শ স্মারকগ্রন্থ ১৮৬৯-২০১৯ [SARDHOSHATOBARSHO SMARAKGRANTHO 1869-2019] (PDF) (in Bengali). Kushtia: Kushtia Municipality. p. 60. ISBN 978-984-34608-1-3. Retrieved 2024-08-08.