NS Road

Nawab Sirajuddaula Road
NS Road
নবাব সিরাজউদ্দৌলা সড়ক
এনএস রোড
Map
NS Road, Kushtia (painting).jpg
NS Road painted on canvas in acrylic paint
Route information
Maintained by Kushtia Municipality
Length2.7 km (1.7 mi)
Major junctions
East endRaja Bhuvan Pratap Roy Road (Bouro Bazar Rail Gate)
West endGirjanath Majumdar Road (Municipal area)
Location
CountryBangladesh
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)-[citation needed]

  1. Bouro Bazar market
  2. Ashok Dadhi Bhandar, An ancient and traditional sweet shop
  3. Dinmani Secondary School (1930)
  4. Lovely Tower (1999), Kushtia's first ever 10-storey building and modern shopping mall
  5. Kushtia Government Girls High School (1876)
  6. Parimal Tower
  7. Bangabandhu Super Market
  8. Municipality Market
  9. Zilla Parishad Super Market
  10. Kushtia Central Jame Masjid
  11. Kushtia Islamia College
  12. Kushtia Public Library
  13. District Registry Office
  14. Kushtia Model Police Station Office
  15. Kushtia Mission Secondary School
  16. Kushtia High School (1861)
  17. Residence of the Executive Engineer
  18. Kushtia Municipal Office

Naming history

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

  1. ^ 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 8 August 2024.