The road passing through Santiniketan is once again in the spotlight as Visva-Bharati wants to regain control while detractors of the Vice-Chancellor say he is trying to cut public access to the institution created by Rabindranath Tagore .
The 3-km road that passes through Visva-Bharati, a Central university, belongs to the West Bengal Government, which gave control to the institution in 2017. In 2021 the State took back control after locals complained that they were being denied access.