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Nagaon District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 3831.0 Km2
Population in Nagaon (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 2,826,006
Male : 1,440,307
Female : 1,385,699
Under 6 population
Total : 446,238
Male : 227,853
Female : 218,385
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 44624
In seeing : 20493
In speech : 5148
In hearing : 4882
In movement : 9469
Mental : 4632
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 344
Sex Ratio Rank : 310
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 187 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Yes
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits

Brief About Nagaon 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. |