Karimganj

Karimganj
Karimganj
	city
	Karimganj Location in Assam, India Karimganj Karimganj (India) Karimganj Karimganj (Asia)
	Coordinates: 24.87°N 92.35°E
Country	India
State	Assam
District	Karimganj
Government
• Body	Karimganj Municipality Board
Elevation	13 m (43 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	56,854
Languages
• Official	Bengali[1]
• Regional	Sylheti[2]
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	788710
ISO 3166 code	IN-AS
Vehicle registration	AS 10
Website	karimganj.gov.in

Karimganj is a city in the Karimganj District of the Indian state of Assam. It is the administrative headquarters of the district.It's also popularly known as Sribhumi.

Karimganj city is located at 24.87°N 92.35°E / 24.87; 92.35.[3] The area of Karimganj city is 16.09 km². It has an average elevation of 13 metres (42 feet).

Demographics

As per as the official census of 2011, Karimganj city population is comprised of 50.80 percentage of males while 49.20 percentage of females. Children in the age group of 0 to 6 years were 4.8 percent. Karimganj had a literacy rate of 86.35%, out of which male literacy was 87.91% and female literacy was 84.78%. The sex ratio is 996. There were 12234 households as of 2011.[4][5]

Politics

Karimganj consists of five assembly constituencies: Karimganj North and Karimganj South, Badarpur, Patharkandi, and Ratabari; all of which are part of Karimganj (Lok Sabha constituency).[6]

Notable people

Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904-1974), Bengali writer, academician, scholar and linguist
Kamalakya Dey Purkayastha,current MLA of Karimganj.
Dwarka Nath Das, former MP of Karimganj (1991-1998)
Kripanath Mallah, current MP of Karimganj
Arunodoy Bhattacharjee, Ex- Chief Secretary,Assam.
Lt Triguna Sen,Jadavpur University,Vanaras Hindu University Ex-Vice Chancellor and Former Union Minister(Education).
Lt Ranendra Mohan Das(Dulu Babu),Social worker.

Gallery

References

India, Press Trust of (9 September 2014). "Govt withdraws Assamese as official language from Barak valley". Business Standard India. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
"Sylheti". Ethnologue. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
"redirect to /world/IN/00/Karimganj.html". www.fallingrain.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"2011 Census - Karimganj (MB)". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
"DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK - KARIMGANJ" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2019.
"List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Assam. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2008.

External links

Karimganj news

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[1] India, Press Trust of (9 September 2014). "Govt withdraws Assamese as official language from Barak valley". Business Standard India. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

[2] "Sylheti". Ethnologue. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

[3] "redirect to /world/IN/00/Karimganj.html". www.fallingrain.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[4] "2011 Census - Karimganj (MB)". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 16 September 2019.

[5] "DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK - KARIMGANJ" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2019.

[6] "List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Assam. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2008.