Darrang District
| Total Population : 1,504,320 |
| Total literate : 684,998 |
| Rural : 1,429,492 |
Urban : 74,828 |
| Male : 773,861 |
Female : 730,459 |
MP
: Loksabha
Mangaldoi
MP
Borkataky
Narayan Chandra
CONSTITUENCY : Mangaldoi (Assam ) Darrang
PARTY : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Present
Address
158, South Avenue,
New Delhi- 110 011
Tels. (011) 23795400, 23795300, 9868180184 (M)
Permanent
Address
Rukmini Nagar,
Dispur,
Guwahati - 781 006 Tel.(0361) 2261587
Social
& Developmental Challenges
Mr
Shailendra - Addl Collector
Youth Development
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Bad transportation
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Brief
about District
Hope
for endangered Pygmy Hogs
July 8, 2005
There
is good news for nature lovers, pygmy hogs (tiny wild
pigs) feared to have disappeared from forests are
not extinct.
Known
to be present in very few numbers only in two wildlife
sanctuaries of Assam in the entire world, the pygmy
hog may be one of the prized members once again in
the Bornodi wildlife sanctuary.
Seven
nests believed to that of the hogs were found early
this year, raising prospects of presence of the shy
tiny creatures in this remote but picturesque 26 sq
km sanctuary stretching along the foothills of Bhutan.
Located
near the Mangaldoi township is the sanctuary, which
is otherwise known among researchers as the home of
another most endangered species in the world, the
slow loris.
"Due
to its remoteness and deplorable road condition we
have very few tourists with only research people mostly
from Southern India occasionally visiting the park",
says Mangaldoi wildlife division divisional forest
officer M Momin.
Excited over the prospect of the discovery of the
nests, Momin claims that the forest department examined
all aspects before coming to the conclusion that those
belonged to pygmy hogs.
Although
the habitats of wild boar and the pygmy hog look almost
the same, the shrub by which the nests are made are
different, he says.
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