Netaji Nagar, Kolkata

Netaji Nagar is a locality and part of South Kolkata and comes under the South Kolkata parliamentary area part of Tollygunj area.^[1] It is named after the famous freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and a statue of Bose is placed on the road which connects to the N.S.C Bose Road. It predominantly has lower to medium class residential area. Most of the people are Bengali Hindu refugee from East Pakistan, who were given land by government to rehabilitate them. They have settled here after 1947 partition of India. In the recent times people of all ethnicity including the old refugees live here. Starting from a refugee colony, the locality has grown both in size and facilities and has become one of the most Important localities of South Kolkata.

Recently, many Gujarati diaspora of Kolkata have preferred to live in this locality, who have shifted from prime Bhowanipore area of city and have also built a Jain temple in locality.

Among educational institution are Netaji Nagar Day College, Netaji Nagar College for Women and Netaji Nagar evening College,The Future Foundation School,Narmada School,etc.

The area is served by large arterial road named Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road, which connects to Tollygunj Metro Station on one end and Garia on other end with the closest one being Masterda Surya Sen

The PIN code for this area is 700040.^[1]

There is cinema hall named Malancha nearby, which is also a major landmark.

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