Netaji Subhash Birthplace National Museum in Cuttack would have an exclusive gallery to display Indian National Army (INA) memoirs including photos, portraits and regalia of INA soldiers.

The gallery is expected to be completed and opened to public on the 112th birth anniversary of Netaji on January 23, 2009.

'We are going to add three new galleries to the existing eight of the double-storied museum this year which would be inaugurated on the birth anniversary of the legendary leader. Of these, one gallery would be exclusively dedicated to INA memorabilia,said an official.

Steps have already been taken to collect information and artifacts relating to INA soldiers and persons associated with it - both dead and alive.

Meanwhile, a beginning has already been made in this direction when a New Delhi-based artist Md Aanwar donated a portrait of Captain Laxmi Panda, which would adore the gallery, sources said.

Laxmi, who is fondly called Netaji's Indira, was the youngest woman soldier of INA and died recently at the age of 83.

The museum now houses several INA insignia, which have been obtained from INA secretary S S Yadav of New Delhi. Efforts are on to contact the living INA associates to collect some more artifacts from them to be displayed in the museum, the sources said.

Among the main displays is an INA regalia sword, which was handed over to Captain D Dasan of Chennai by Netaji himself in 1944.