Netaji Nagar, Kolkata is named for the famous freedom fighter that died in what year?
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. 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.
Parbati Giri Parbati Giri (19 January 1926 - 1995), daughter of Dhananjay Giri. Nicknamed the "Mother Teresa of Western Odisha", was a prominent female freedom fighter from Odisha, India. The women freedom fighters of Orissa played a significant role in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Giri was born in Samlaipadar village near Bijepur of the present Bargarh district and undivided Sambalpur district on 19 January 1926.