23-690: Amlajora is a village and partly a locality in Durgapur Municipal Corporation in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal . Amlajora is located at 23°27′58″N 87°23′01″E / 23.466199°N 87.383495°E / 23.466199; 87.383495 . Arra , Bamunara , Gopalpur and Amlajora form
46-487: A cluster of census towns in the western portion of Kanksa CD block and adjacent to Durgapur Municipal Corporation area. According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The sole municipal corporation in the Durgapur subdivision is located at Durgapur and the subdivision has 38 (+1 partly) census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on
69-485: A greater number of statutory towns, the states would be able to get more money from the Centre as per the 14th Finance Commission Report. Additionally, under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), 50% weightage is given to the number of statutory towns in the state/UT to determine the allocation of funds to these states/UTs. Following this notification, Maharashtra state government converted 19 CTs in
92-474: A particular place where if he digs out he will find a sword that belonged to Maa Bagheswari. And the next morning when the priest went to dig in the place he saw in his dreams, he found the sword. After that day a temple was built over the place and there they worship the sword. There is no idol inside the temple. In 2006 the Indian government named Bongaigaon one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of
115-906: A total of 640 ). It is one of the eleven districts in Assam currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF). The district has three subdivisions: Bongaigaon, Bijni , and North Salmara . In 2004, parts of the Bongaigaon district (mainly areas under Bijni subdivision) were given over to form the Chirang district , under the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), with its district headquarters at Kajalgaon . There are four Assam Legislative Assembly constituencies in this district: Bongaigaon , Bijni , Abhayapuri North , and Abhayapuri South . The latter
138-571: Is 66.4%. The total literacy rate of Bongaigaon district is 69.74%. The male literacy rate is 63.09% and the female literacy rate is 54.26% in Bongaigaon district. 14.86% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 11.21% and 2.55% of the population respectively. The district religious composition are as follows: Hindu 359,145, Muslim 371,033, Christian 5,924, Sikh 384, Buddhist 236, Jain 871 as per 2011 census report. Way back in 1971, Hindus were slight majority in Bongaigaon district with forming 69.8% of
161-568: Is a nucleus of either thirty occupied houses on both sides of the road or twenty occupied houses on one side of the Road". Census towns were distinct from municipal towns ; the latter, which had legally defined boundaries and local government powers, were abolished by the Local Government Reform Act 2014 . Census towns were replaced by built up areas in the 2022 census . Bongaigaon district Bongaigaon district (Prpn:ˈbɒŋgaɪˌgãʊ)
184-599: Is an administrative district in the state of Assam in northeastern India . The district headquarters are located at Bongaigaon . The district occupies an area of 1,093 km . According to lore, the name 'Bongaigaon' derives from the words 'bon' (wild) and 'gai' (cow). In the distant past, wild cows were often a menace to villagers in this area due to which the district got its name. Bongaigaon district fell under Eastern Dooars . Dooars between Sankosh River and Manas River are called Eastern Dooars. From early 17th-century some parts of present-day Bongaigaon district
207-528: Is designated for scheduled castes . Bijni is in the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency , whilst the other three are in the Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency . According to the 2011 census, the total population of the district is 738,804, out of which 375,818 are males while 362,986 are females. The average sex ratio is 966. The average literacy rate in urban areas is 87.4% while that in the rural areas
230-503: Is required to ensure planned development of these areas. In this notification, Rajiv Gauba, Secretary (Urban Development) notes: The opportunity of planned urban development might get lost if unplanned construction and ad hoc provisioning of infrastructure is allowed to take place over a long time. Additionally, the Ministry, in the notification, has informed the states that they stand to gain from according statutory status to these towns. With
253-454: Is surrounded by Barpeta in the east, the Brahmaputra in the south and Kokrajhar in the north and west corner and share international border with Bhutan in the north. The places that are worth visiting in Bongaigaon are eco-park, Bagheswari temple , tea garden, and Suryapahar . The history of Bagheswari temple is such that once a priest saw in his dream that Maa Bagheswari asked him to go to
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#1732856170634276-799: The British, and even gained a small amount of land after the Duar War in 1865. Rangpur and the Garo Hills were eventually stripped away to form different districts, but Goalpara continued to be administered as part of a Cooch Behar province. Eventually the Assam Valley province was founded in 1874, and Goalpara was moved to it. Goalpara was later divided into various districts including Kokrajhar and Dhubri , and later Bongaigaon. Bongaigaon district occupies an area of 1,093 square kilometres (422 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to Réunion . Bongaigaon district
299-587: The Kanksa CD block. Census town In India and some other countries, a well developed village is designated as a village where all basic facilities like health, education road connectivity, rail connectivity and other basic infrastructure is easily available. In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population has attained urban characteristics. Census towns are governed by gram panchayats , unlike statutory towns. They are characterized by
322-446: The civic amenities, it had 59 km roads, the protected water-supply involved hand pump. It had 548 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities, it had one dispensary/ health centre, one maternity and child welfare centre, one charitable hospital/ nursing home, and 16 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were six primary schools, one middle school, one secondary school, one senior secondary school. Among
345-603: The fiefdom of the Bijni family, who were descendants of Nara Narayan. When the Kamata kingdom split into Koch Bihar and Koch Hajo due to rivalry between the king and his nephew Raghu Rai, Bongaigaon became part of Koch Hajo. Soon Koch Hajo and Koch Bihar went to war, and the Mughal Nawab of Dhaka , supporting Koch Bihar, defeated Rai at Dhubri in 1602. Rai's son Parikshit signed a peace treaty, but hostilities resumed in 1614 and Parikshit
368-1537: The following: Examples of Indian census towns include Kapsi in Chhattisgarh , Avinissery in Thrissur District of Kerala , Greater Noida , Chakeri and Manauri in Uttar Pradesh , Indranagar in Tripura , Begampur , Chandpara , Nandigram , Chittaranjan and Beliatore in West Bengal , Chevella in Telangana , Amini in Lakshadweep , Deolali in Maharashtra , Ghatshila in Purbi Singhbhum District of Jharkhand , BGR Township ( Bongaigaon Refinery Township ) in Bongaigaon Urban Agglomeration of Assam , Pileru in Andhra Pradesh , Chikhli in Gujarat and Ichgam in Jammu and Kashmir . The number of census towns (CTs) in India grew from 1,362 in 2001 to 3,894 in 2011. As per Pradhan (2013), these CTs account for 30% of
391-566: The map are linked in the full-screen map). According to the 2011 Census of India , Amlajora had a total population of 5,856 of which 2,935 (50%) were males and 2,921 (50%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 660. The total number of literate persons in Amlajora was 3,625 (69.77% of the population over 6 years). According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman , Amlajora covered an area of 7.3168 km. Among
414-436: The social, recreational and cultural facilities, it had one public library. It had the branch offices of two nationalised banks. Amlajorah High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1947. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 18 computers and a library with 518 books. Panagarh Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Panagarh , is the major government medical facility in
437-404: The state to statutory ULBs. These 19 CTs are in close proximity to the town of Pune and this conversion is expected to lessen the infrastructure and population pressures on the town. According to Ireland's Central Statistics Office , a census town by definition was a "cluster of fifty or more occupied dwellings, not having a legally defined boundary, in which within a distance of 800 m there
460-449: The urban growth in the last decade. Pradhan also notes that the largest increase in the number of CTs was in the states of West Bengal and Kerala. The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, in May 2016 asked the 28 states in India to take action to start the process of recognizing CTs as urban areas. The argument given for this conversion was that a statutory Urban Local Body (ULB)
483-754: Was created on 29 September 1989 from parts of Goalpara and Kokrajhar districts . 2004 saw a loss of size when part of the district was split to make Chirang district . In the late 1750s, the East India Company strengthened their influence in Bengal and Lower Assam . In 1822 the East India Company created Goalpara district containing present-day Lower Assam, the Garo Hills and northeastern Rangpur division in Bangladesh. The Bijnis continued to pay tribute to
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#1732856170634506-702: Was driven back to modern-day Guwahati , where he surrendered and soon after died. His son, Bijit Narayan, was made Zamindar of the region between the Manas and Sankosh : from him the Bijni family descended. Koch Hajo was tributary to the Mughals, but in the last decades of the 17th century Mughal influence waned significantly due to the Ahom-Mughal wars in which the Ahoms were eventually successful. Koch Hajo, including Bijni Zamindari, fell under Ahom influence. The district of Bongaigaon
529-681: Was under the control of Kingdom of Bhutan , till the Duar Wars in 1865 when British removed the Bhutanese influence and later the areas were merged to undivided Goalpara district of the Indian Union in 1949. The district was part of Kamrup . In the 14th century, its rule was passed onto the Baro-Bhuyans . Later in the 1580s Nara Narayan of the Kamata kingdom conquered the area and it subsequently became
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