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Transformation Of E Block, C R Park

The Transformation Of E Block, C R Park, Durga Puja Park Courtesy Chittaranjan Park Purbachal Durga Puja Samiti And Resident’s Welfare Association, E-Block, C R Park by Sri Saibal Ghosh, Member, EC of CPPDPS and E-Block RWA, with inputs from Shri S S Roy Burman. The C R Park, E Block park has been the centre point of my life for the past 50 years encompassing my growing up years, since the first time I put my foot on it as an 11-year-old pre-teenager, in the winter of 1976! Since then, for the next 12 years, the air around this park rented with our shouts of joy and despair during our evening football games, cricket matches and of course our ubiquitous ‘addas’.   I remember the hours we spent as teenagers, slogging away to swipe the park with brooms to get rid of the prickly thorns on the ground, hurt our young feet often! Those days C R Park was developing and slowly getting populated with erstwhile wild open spaces turning into makeshift playgrounds with the removal of wild b...