| Voice of Darrang District
: Mukul Sharma
Unemployment is a big problem faced by us.
There are no means of proper communication and the overall infrastructure
is weak. We are left with frequent load shedding.
Corruption is common and rampant in our district.
Quality of education is poor. We also need technical schools as
it will open new job avenues. We need urgent help from the government
to improve the condition.
Unemployment is another leading problem.
Government should promote womens empowerment
Darrang District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 3481.0 Km2
Population in Darrang (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 908,090
Male : 472,134
Female : 435,956
Under 6 population
Total : 149,626
Male : 77,096
Female : 72,530
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 40029
In seeing : 21470
In speech : 5681
In hearing : 4168
In movement : 5636
Mental : 3074
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 258
Sex Ratio Rank : 313
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 222 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 449 (Census 2001)
Minority : Yes
Earthquake : Earthquake measuring 7.5 in 1869
Brief About Darrang 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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