Bhairab Upazila

Bhairab is located at 24.0500°N 90.9875°E / 24.0500; 90.9875. It has 34,419 households and total area is 139.32 km². Bhairab is situated beside the rivers of Meghna and Brahmaputra. Bhairab Bazar (town) is notable for the Bhairab railway station and the railway bridge, Bhairab bridge that goes over the river of Meghna.

As of the 2011 Bangladesh census, Bhairab has a population of 298309. 115498 of total population live in Municipality area. Males constitute 49.25% of the population, and females 50.74%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 95,910. According to the 1991 Bangladesh census, Bhairab has an average literacy rate of 36.23% (7+ years) where the national average is 32.4%.[2]

Bhairab was declared as a Thana in 1906. Later, the thana was turned into present-day Bhairab Upazila in 1983. Now there is one municipality, 7 Unions, 32 Mouzas and 84 villages in the upazila.

• Municipality: Bhairab Bazaar

• Unions:

There are five colleges in the Upazila. They include three honors-level ones: Government Zillur Rahman Mohila College, Hazi Asmat College, founded in 1947, and Rafiqul Islam Girls' College (1987), Shahidullah Kaiser College (2010).[1]

There isonly one Govt. School and College – Bhairab Technical School and College(1965) [3] to produce skilled manpower for contribution on development of national production the then-Government in 1965 established 51 Vocational Training Institutes in the whole country. With the modernization and reorganization of the vocational education system SSC (Vocational) and HSC (Vocational) program was started in 1995. To ensure the social acceptance and dignity of vocational graduates the Institute is renamed as Bhairab Technical School and College by a gazette notification from Ministry of Education, Bangladesh. There are 64 Government Educational Institutes of this category which are introducing the Vocational Education in HSC level and Bhairab Technical School and College is only the institute in the district which is offering SSC (Vocational) and HSC (Vocational) course with well-equipped laboratories, multimedia classroom facilities and highly qualified and experienced teachers. Nowadays this institute also started Diploma Course (offering two Department Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering). There is currently a government school.

According to Banglapedia, Bhairab K. B. Pilot Model High School, founded in 1919, Bangladesh Railway High School,Bhairab (1954), Shahidullah Kaiser High School, Banshgari (2014), Saint Kayzer Education Home, Banshgari (2014), Kamalpur Hazi Zahir Uddin High School, Srinagar High School (1961), Bhairab M. P. Pilot Girls' High School (1962), and Kalika Prasad High School (1964), Shimul Kandi High School (1970) are notable secondary schools.[1]

The madrasa education system includes one fazil madrasa.[4]

Bhairab Bazaar is the urban centre of this upazila. It hosts one of the important port of Bangladesh. It is a well known business zone of Dhaka Division. Though it is a small city, it has a large measure of population. Almost 15,000 people per square kilometer live in this municipal city. Bhairab is mostly known for its port and fishes. It is a first class municipal city. Bhairab bridge connects Dhaka and Chattogram Divisions of Bangladesh. It is the second-largest Bridge of Bangladesh after Hardinge Bridge. Besides, Bhairab has two other important bridges Syed Nazrul Islam Bridge and Zillur Rahman Railway Bridge.

• New Town
• Chandiber
• Bhairab Bazar
• Komolpur
• Amlapara
• Ghorakanda
• Tatarkandi
• Kalipur
• Bhairabpur

• Bangabondhu Sharani Road
• Dhaka-Sylhet Highway
• Stadium Road
• College Road
• Dhaka-Bhairab-Mymensing Highway
• Rabindra Sharani Road
• Hazi Aftab Uddin Road
• Kazi Nazrul Islam Sharani Road
• Jabbar Jute Mil Road
• Port of Bhairab Road
• Girl's School Road
• Birendra Dhar Sharani Road
• Station Road
• Troma Hospital Road
• Shaheed Minar Road
• Commander Abdur Rouf Road
• Shahrawardy Avenue
• River Meghna Sharani Road
• Pouro Fish Market
• Launch Terminal Road
• Munshi Jahir Uddin Road

• Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (2009-2013), was born in Bhairab in 1929.[5]
• Jahangir Hossain, Justice of Appellate Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
• Ivy Rahman, prominent politician, was born in Bhairab on 7 July 1934
• Nazmul Hassan Papon, President of Bangladesh Cricket Board
• Md Ismail Hossain, General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League at Dhaka City (North)

• Upazilas of Bangladesh
• Districts of Bangladesh
• Divisions of Bangladesh