Janakinath Bhawan, the dilapidated building in the crowded Oriya Bazar in Cuttack where Netaji Subash Chandra Bose was born, is being turned into a national memorial. An amount of Rs four crore was being provided by the Union government for conservation of the 150-year-old building which was the revolutionary leader's ancestral house, Srikanta Panda, working president of the Netaji Seva Sadan Trust Board, told PTI. The board has been managing the property at present. Panda said that the Centre had agreed to convert the building into a memorial like it had done in case of Ananda Bhawan at Allahabad and Teenmurthi Bhavan at Delhi. “The decision in this regard is expected to be announced by the central government before the leader's 104th birth anniversary on January 23 next,” he said. The building, in a ravaged condition, was located on an area of about one acre where a charitable 23-bedded maternity hospital and a family welfare centre was being run. Bureau Report