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{{Infobox venue<br />
|name=Deshapriyo Park<br />
|location=[[Rashbehari Avenue]], [[Kolkata]]<br />
|coordinates = {{coord|22|31|06.34|N|88|21|04.82|E|display=title,inline}}<br />
|owner=Public<br />
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'''Deshapriyo Park''' is a playground of [[South Kolkata]], having [[Rashbehari Avenue]] on one side and [[Sarat Bose Road]] on another side. Different games like Cricket, Football, Tennis etc. are regularly played here by professional and amateur players and locals. In the playground one of the biggest [[Durga Puja]] is organized.<ref name="Deshapriya Park Durga Puja">{{cite web|title=Deshapriya Park Durga Puja|url=http://www.aboutkolkata.com/kolkata-durga-puja/portfolio/deshapriya-park-durga-puja/|publisher=About Kolkata (website)|accessdate=17 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182500/http://www.aboutkolkata.com/kolkata-durga-puja/portfolio/deshapriya-park-durga-puja/|archive-date=28 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Priya Cinema (Kolkata)|Priya]] cinema is located beside this playground.<br />
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{{As of|2012|06}} the park was shrinking day by day. Firstly it was encroached by a club and then a public toilet and a restaurant. Bonani Kakkar, a green activist reacted– "Deshapriyo Park has been grabbed several times in the past. The forms of permanent constructions vary, but encroachment never stops. Now fresh encroachment is allowed in the form of a stage".<ref name="Deshapriya Park shrinks, yet again">{{cite news|title=Deshapriya Park shrinks, yet again|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-14/kolkata/29656512_1_kmc-parks-department-encroachment-member-mayor-in-council|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126120304/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-14/kolkata/29656512_1_kmc-parks-department-encroachment-member-mayor-in-council|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 January 2013|accessdate=17 December 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=14 June 2011}}</ref> The stage and sculpture was however inaugurated by the chief minister of [[West Bengal]] , [[Mamata Banerjee]] on the event of Language Day. On Feb.12, 2015 Mayor [[Sovan Chatterjee]] inaugurated<ref>{{cite web|title=First Grid connected battery-less solar lights at Deshapriya Park|url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/outside_jsp/connected_battery_DeshapriyaPark_19_02_2015.jsp|website=KMC Official Website|accessdate=3 November 2015}}</ref> Kolkata's first Grid Connected battery-less Solar Power street lighting system at Deshapriya Park.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Lal Dighi]]<br />
*[[Rabindra Sarobar]]<br />
*[[Maidan (Kolkata)|Maidan]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Parks in Kolkata]]</div>>GreenC bot