NS Road

Nawab Sirajuddaula Road
NS Road
Nawab Sirajuddaula Road NS Road
নবাব সিরাজউদ্দৌলা সড়ক ; এনএস রোড
	NS Road painted on canvas in acrylic paint
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
	Roads in Bangladesh;

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]}

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 Jame Masjid
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

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

^ ^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.

[A-1] 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.

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