Indira Road

Indira Road is the name of a road adjoining the Farmgate area of Dhaka city.[1] Indira Road is a road very familiar to the people of Dhaka.

Many people think that Indira Road was named after Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. But no such information has been discovered for a long time.[2] But now there is a different kind of prevailing. This opinion is more likely to be true. The area where Indira Road is now located was once home to a large number of wealthy people. One of them is Dwijdas Babu. Dwijdas Babu was the head of the Manipur firm. Most likely it was in the 1930s. His big house was on the present Indira Road. Indira, the eldest daughter of Dwijdas Babu, died prematurely. At that time Indira was buried inside the house. The road in the area became known as Indira Road after the daughter of Dwijdas Babu.[3]

The road is under Dhaka North City Corporation and Tejgaon Thana.[4][5] Tejgaon College is situated in the road.[6] The government's Indira Road-Panthapath link road project is underway.[7]

References
  1. Chiran, Mathews (21 September 2019). "INDIRA ROAD: Brisk business on footpath". The Daily Star.
  2. Muntassir Mamoon. ঢাকা: স্মৃতি বিস্মৃতির নগরী [Dhaka: The city of memory and oblivion] (in Bengali). Ananya Prakashani. p. 47. ISBN 984-412-104-3.
  3. Nazir Hossain (April 1995). কিংবদন্তির ঢাকা [Dhaka of legends] (in Bengali). Three Star Co-operative Multipurpose Society Ltd. p. 364. ISBN 984-30-0153-2.
  4. "আগোরার ইন্দিরা রোড শাখাকে লাখ টাকা জরিমানা". BD News 24 (in Bengali). 16 May 2019.
  5. "ইন্দিরা রোড থেকে ছুরিকাঘাতে নিহত ব্যক্তির লাশ উদ্ধার". Bangla News 24 (in Bengali). 9 September 2012.
  6. "ইন্দিরা রোডে হকারদের দখলে লেগুনাস্ট্যান্ডও". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 10 February 2017.
  7. "দুই যুগেও হয়নি পান্থপথ-ইন্দিরা রোড সংযোগ সড়ক". Dhaka Times. 2 December 2016.


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