Developer of Prashad Nagar, Hari Prashad (Horizons, Issue 17, 2012)
It was a wide, flat and abandoned rice field when, in the late 1950s, real estate developer Hari Prashad purchased just over 76 acres put up for sale by then British Guiana conglomerate Bookers, in an area called Bel Air, which was then mainly rice fields owned by Bel Air Estates Ltd.

The land, known then as “area H”, was bordered by Bel Voir Court to the north; a reserve between the land and Campbelville to the west, by Sophia to the east, and Cummings Canal to the south. It has since become known as one of the country’s oldest premier housing schemes: Prashad Nagar.

Hari Prashad decided to turn the former rice land into a housing estate which he named Prashad Nagar; Prashad, his family name, and ‘Nagar’, a Hindi word that means a city, town, division or district. Its streets were named after either family members or friends of Hari Prashad, or places in, or references to India; a reflection of his brief sojourn to that country in the early 1950s and his close ties to his culture.
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