Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road

For the road in South Mumbai, see Marine Drive

This is an important thoroughfare in South Kolkata that runs in a north-west to south-east direction. It connects the localities of Tollygunge in the north-west and Garia in the south-east.

This road is a narrow road, but given it's significance it carries a considerable amount of traffic throughout the day.

Localities

The Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road (or N.S.C. Bose Road) starts from the Tollygunge Tram Depot crossing and passes through the localities of Ashoknagar, Ranikuthi, Netajinagar, Bansdroni, Naktala and finally touches Raja SC Mullick Road at Garia. It runs nearly parallel to the Tolly's Nullah all along from Ranikuthi.

Most of the localities along this road were former refugee colonies, for the huge number of people who had to migrate from erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) post the partition of Bengal in 1947.

To ease the amount of traffic and congestion on this road, the Kolkata Metro's south extension to Garia opened in 2009. The metro tracks run parallel to this road on the Tolly's Nullah and has the following stations -

1. Netaji (Kudghat) 2. Masterda Surya Sen (Bansdroni) 3. Gitanjali (Naktala) 4. Kavi Nazrul (Garia Bazaar)

Landmarks

There are quite a few important landmarks on this road, such as:

1. The Indrapuri Studios
2. The ITC Sangeet Research Academy
3. The Assembly Of God Church School{tollygunj branch}
4. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture
5. Swetamber Gujarati Jain Temple at N.S.C. Bose Road
6. Spencer's Retail Store
7. Naktala High School
8. Reliance Fresh
9. Bansdroni Supermarket
10. Sevangan Nursing Home ( Near Rathtala)
11. Udayan Nursing Home ( Opposite to Masterda Surya Sen Metro Station, Near Bansdroni)
12. Malancha Cinema
13. BSNL Telephone Exchange near Ranikuthi
14. Metro Stations falling within the span of this Road are : Mahanayak Uttam Kumar ( Old Tollygunge), Masterda Surjya Sen ( or Bansdroni, however there is a bus stoppage called Surya Nagar one stop before Bansdroni while going from Tollygunge to Garia) , Geetanjali ( near Naktala or Bunty bus stop) and Kaji Nazrul ( near Garia)

Transportation

The various modes of transportation available along this road are private buses (205, 205A, 228, 80A etc.), public buses and also mini-buses (Naktala-Howrah, Garia-Howrah, Harinavi-Howrah). Another major mode of transportation popular in this area are three-wheelers better known as Auto-Rickshaws. Cycle-Rickshaws are abundant in this area as well, apart from the multitude of taxis and private vehicles traveling in the area. Due to this multitude of traffic, traffic jams are part of a daily routine, especially in places like the Garia crossing, Usha Gate crossing, Bansdroni and the other popular crossings like Netaji Nagar, Ranikuthi and Malancha-Moore Road crossing.

External links

1. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture
2. ITC Sangeet Research Academy
3. Naktala High School