Step Aside is a famous house below Chowrasta and just a few minutes walk along the C.R. Das Road on the way to Bhutia Busty. This is the house in which the renowned Indian patriot Desbandhu Chittaranjan Das passed away on June 16, 1925. This house contains a few of his personal belongings on display on the first floor while the ground floor has been turned into a maternity clinic for the poor and is named after Desbandhu Chittaranjan Das.
There are no entrance fees for Step Aside but visitors are not allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the house. A stop over at Step Aside is recommend while on the way to the Bhutia Busty Monastery.
