| Nagaon District
| Total Population : 2,314,629 |
| Total literate : 1,165,617 |
| Rural : 2,036,342 |
Urban : 278,287 |
| Male : 1,190,950 |
Female : 1,123,679 |
| Area : 3,831 Sq Km. |
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Other
Information
Extension
250-45' to 260 -45' North Latitude
920
-33' -6" East
Hills
Hatimura parbat 186.5 M
Barkandali 853 M
Kamakhya parbat 244 M
Average Altitude is 60.6 M
Major
rivers
The Brahmaputra, Kalong, Sonai, Nanoi, Jamuna, Kopili
and Barpani.
Nagaon
town
Nagaon town is situated at 920 -41' -39"
E and 260 -20' -39" N
Geology
Sandy new alluvium
Altitude
61m from mean sealevel
Rainfall
1760 mm average annual
Temperature
Winter Max. 24.80 C Min. 11.20
C
Summer Max. 32.90 C Min. 25.50
C
Annual Average Max. 30.40 C Min. 19.80
C
MP
: Loksabha
Kaliabor
: MP
Gogoi
Dip
CONSTITUENCY : Kaliabor (Nagaon District : Assam )
PARTY : Indian National Congress (INC)
Present
Address
6, Teen Murti Lane,
New Delhi-110 011
Tels.(011) 23795026, 23795025
Permanent
Address
Village Nazir Ali,
P.O. Jorhat, Distt.
Jorhat (Assam)
Tel. (0376) 2321639
Nowgong
: MP
Gohain Rajen
CONSTITUENCY : Nowgong (Assam )
PARTY : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Present
Address
185, South Avenue,
New Delhi - 110 011
Tels. (011) 23794472, 9868180654 (M)
Fax : (011)23794637
Permanent
Address
Tilok Deka Road, Itachali,
P.O. & Distt. Nagaon - 782 001 (Assam)
Tels. (03672) 223314, 232084, 236475
Brief
about District
HISTORY
OF NAGAON
Nagaon,
earler spelt of Nowgong was carved out as a separate
district administrative unit in 1832. Located in Central
Assam, the eastern, western and southern segments
of the newly organised district were once ruled by
different small-time feudal kings or their agents.
An extensive and undulating plain intersected by big
and small hills and rivers- the geography of the sements
determined who their masters ought to be. The residual
effects of the rule of the Bara Bhuyans were imaginatively
utilised and reorganised by Momai Tamuli Barphukana,
an intrepid officer of the Ahom king Pratap Singha
in the first half of the seventeeth century. This
area, until then, was more of strategic than administrative
concern. Newly organised village system-hence called
"Nagaon", 'Na' means new.
At
the social level, a great majority of the people were
the Vaishnavites. Sankardeva, the great saint of the
Bhakti movement era was born at Bordowa, at a distance
of fifteen kilometres from the district geadquarters
town. His life and work had been social exemplifiers
and anyone can feel the long shadow of his influence
even in the remotest part of the district.
The
thickly populated parts of the district were the chosen
targets of violence and term during the Burmese rule.
There was no leadership to organised resistance movement
against the Burmese. The people heaved a sigh of relief
when the British came down heavily on the Burmese
and compelled them to withdraw from Assam. Following
the treaty of Yandaboo in 1826, this central area
of the province passed off silently into the hands
of the British. It took a couple of years before the
British finally settled on the present site on the
bank of the Kollong river as the district headquarters.
Earlier, they experimented from Puranigudam and Rangagora.
The district headquarters was called Nagaon and gradually
it emerged into a town. It become a municipality in
1893. Nagaon follows the pattern of any other district
of the Lower Provinces east of the Ganga. It is basically
a rural conglomerate of agricultural population.
Conscious
of its strategic location, the administration of the
district was always entrusted to officers of extraordinary
merit. A local peasant uprising at Phulaguri in 1861
against governments taxation policy was enough of
an indication that the peasantry was not altogether
a stolid and docile lot. The peasantry was also an
active participant in the various stages of the national
struggle for freedom. The national leaders, M.K Gandhi,
Rajendra Prasad and Pandit Nehru were impressed by
their spirit and enthusiasm.
The
entire credit of introduction of modern education
in the district goes to the Christian Missionaries.
Of them, the name of Miles Bronson, the American
missionary, shines as brilliantly as ever. The apostle
of the new age Anandaram Dhekia Phukan spent the best
part of his life at Nagaon, His spiritual successor
Gunabhiram Barua also worked in Nagaon for about two
decades.
Geography
of Nagaon District
(Old
name Khagarijan)
New
name Nagaon (Nowgong, New Settlement by Momai Tamuli
Barbarua)
Boundary
of the district
North
is bounded by Sonitpur district & the Brahmaputra
river, south is bounded by West Karbi Anglong and
North Cachar Hills, East is bounded by East Karbi
Anglong and Golaghat district.
Beels
and lakes and marshy lands
There are several beels, marshy lands and swamps are
there, these are in reality old abandone channels
of Kalong and Kopili rivers of Nagaon district. These
are Marikalong, Potakalong,/ Haribhanga, Jongalbalahu,
Samoguri beel, Urigadang and Nawbhanga. These beels
are major unused resources of the district. There
are nearly more than two hundred numerous marshy land
exist here which should be used for development of
the area.
The
district looks like a broken dish north is up land
South is also up land west is slop other half dish
is in Marigaon district, Geomorphologically Marigaon
and Nagaon makes a perfect Geomorphological area.
The general slope of the district is towards the west
from any place. East, North East and South East is
hilly terrain.
Climate
The climate of this district is in general Monsoon
type of climate. But there are some difference from
the other districts of Assam.It divides the province
in to two halves climatically, from this district
to western most district Dhubri rainfall is in increasing
rate, again from here to east ward up to Tinsukia
rainfall is also in increasing rate. Here the climate
is in extreme type. The pattern of rainfall is such
that, South is dry North is rainy area, rainfall from
south to north is 1000 mm per year to 2000 mm per
year. Lanka area is in semi desertic Zone. Cold season
from December to February. Probability of flood from
June to October. Only April to May is per Monsoon.
October to November is only Post Monsoon. Average
rainfall is 1750 mm (last 50 years data base). Deforestation,
El-Nino effect, speedy urbanization and global warming
in general changing the rainfall pattern of the district.
Now 12% Vegetation cover is remained in the district
which should be minimum 33%.
Rivers
& slopes
Major river is Kalong which divided the town in to
two halves Haibargaon and Nagaon. It is comparable
with Poe river of Italy which divided the town in
two divide lines, these divide lines are Levees of
the river Kalong.
Haibargaon is slope down towards west and then south
west to river Sonai, and Nagaon is slope down towards
south east and then south to the beels and then to
Kalong near Bebejia.
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