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Prime Minister Narendra Modi all set to inaugurate museum dedicated to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as today marks his 122ND birth anniversary.

It will be new digitisied museum that brings some unknown and interesting facts about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, from his childhood days, to the trials of the personnel of the Indian National Army (INA), a force Bose had put together to fight the British is ready for inauguration at Red Fort in the national capital.

Acccording to report in Hindustan Times, The first floor of the Red Fort barracks, on which the museum is built, is the place from where soldiers of the INA were court-martialed and tried by the British. The trials started on November 5, 1945, and continued till January 3,1946.

The three-storeyed museum named as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and INA will have a collection of more than 100 panels depicting his life.

The galleries, spread over three floors, depict the contributions of Bose since his childhood days. The role of the INA, since its inception till the trials of its soldiers, its organization, the battles fought, the awakening it created and its popularity in the country are also documented.

“It will be a first-of-its-kind narrative that starts from Bose’s childhood, his disappearance and later on, the trials of the INA’s soldiers, and its impact on the country. The museum has highlighted the role of the people of Indian origin in South East Asia towards the INA — how they contributed money, soldiers and services. The assassination order given by British secret operations to its agents in Cairo and Istanbul has been shown. It also shows the secret operation of Col Amrik Singh Gill and four others who landed by submarine at the Konark temple coast to establish their INA secret centres in India,” professor Kapil Kumar, chief historian of the museum, said.

“There will be a few films, the voice-over for which has been done by Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan. Apart from those, audio-visuals, archives and reports are also there for visitors. The more than 100 panels will give a complete idea of Bose’s life. We will also showcase interviews of some INA veterans,” Siddharth Bathla, director, Design Factory India, the firm that was engaged for building the museum, said.

-Sai kumar