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Rangiya – New Tinsukia Express
Rangia is a city and a municipal board in Kamrup rural district in the Indian state of Assam. It is the regional divisional headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Railway. It is situated 52 kilometres away from the state headquarters Dispur Guwahati and 39 kilometres from Jalukbari. Etymology The word Rangia has been derived from "Randiya" ("Ran" means 'war' and "Diya" means 'to give') i.e. a place where war happened between Boros and Bhutanese. History In Ancient times it was part of Ancient Kamrup, and subsequently included in Kamapitha division of Kamarupa Kingdom. In modern times, Rangiya is part of Kamrupi cultural region. Geography Rangiya is located at . It has an average elevation of 39 metres (128 feet). The river Borolia flows through the heart of the city. Demographics India census, Rangiya had a population of 26,389. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Rangiya has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national ave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Indian Cities
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Northeast Frontier Railway
The Northeast Frontier Railway (abbreviated NFR) is one of the Zones and divisions of Indian Railways, 19 railway zones of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered in Maligaon, Guwahati in the state of Assam, and responsible for operation and expansion of rail network all across Northeast India, Northeastern states and some districts of eastern Bihar and northern West Bengal. Divisions Northeast Frontier Railway is divided into 5 divisions: * Katihar railway division * Alipurduar railway division * Lumding railway division * Rangiya railway division * Tinsukia railway division Each of these divisions is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager, a Senior Administrative Grade officer of the rank of Joint Secretary to Government of India. The departmental setup at headquarters level and divisional setup in the field assists the General Manager in running the railways. Various departments namely engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal & telecom, operations, commercial, safety, acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Bongaigaon–Guwahati Section
The New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section of the Barauni–Guwahati line connects New Bongaigaon and Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam. History Early developments within Assam The Assam Railway and Trading Company played a pioneering role in laying railway tracks in Assam. The first railway line in Assam, 15 miles long, was laid in 1882 between Amolapatty, Dibrugarh and Dinjam Stream for transportation of tea. It was extended up to Makum collieries at Margherita in 1884. The company also established the first passenger railway – Dibru Sadiya Railway. Assam links pre-independence During British rule, rail links from Assam to the rest of India were through the eastern part of Bengal. In pre-independence days, there were basically two linkages. On the western side, a metre gauge line running via Radhikapur, Biral, Parbatipur, Tista, Gitaldaha and Golokganj connected Fakiragram in Assam with Katihar in Bihar. On the eastern side, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangiya Junction Railway Station
Rangiya Junction railway station is a junction station on the New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section of Barauni–Guwahati line, and Rangia–Tezpur line of Rangiya–Murkongselek section. It is located in Kamrup district in the Indian state of Assam. It serves Rangiya and the surrounding areas. History In 1883–84 the -wide metre-gauge line of Assam Behar State Railway met the Eastern Bengal Railway's broad gauge line at . It reached in 1888–89 and in 1909 it reached Amingaon on the banks of the Brahmaputra, which could be crossed by ferry to reach Guwahati. The new broad-gauge track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984. Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried metre-gauge tracks, which was later replaced by broad-gauge tracks. The -long Rangia–Murkongselek line is being converted from -wide metre gauge to broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 27 (India)
National Highway 27 (NH 27), an East - West National highway in India that starts in Porbandar and ends in Silchar, the highway passes through the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam. NH-27 was laid and is maintained by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). It is the second longest National Highway (after NH 44) in India and is a part of NS-EW Corridor of NHAI. Route National highway 27 transits across seven states of India in east - west direction. Gujarat Porbandar, Kutiyana, Upleta, Dhoraji, Jetpur, Gondal, Rajkot, Bamanbore, Morvi, Samakhiali, Radhanpur, Deesa, Palanpur Rajasthan Abu Road, Pindwara, Udaipur, Mangalwar, Chittaurgarh, Kota, Baran 7 DISTRICT - SIROHI, UDAIPUR, CHITTAURRGARH, BHILWARA, BUNDI, KOTA BARAN. Madhya Pradesh Shivpuri, Karera Uttar Pradesh Jhansi, Orai Kanpur, Unnao, Lucknow, Barabanki, Ayodhya, Basti, Khalilabad, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar Bihar Gopalganj, Mehsi, Muza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangia Higher Secondary School
Rangia Higher Secondary School is a higher secondary school in Rangia Town of Assam. It was established in 1936. The school is located at the heart of Rangia at Mahatma Gandhi road. The current student strength is 1286 with 67 faculty members. It is an Assamese medium school. The students of the 10th standard appear in HSLC examination under SEBA and the students of the 12th standard appear in HSSLC examination under Assam Higher Secondary Education Council. History Laghunram minor school On 5 January 1917, some donation from the public were raised with the effort of some persons to establish a minor school named as ''Laghanuram Minor School'', in the memory of Lt. Laghanuram Choudhury. It is stated that Lt. Laghanuram Choudhury donated a Thousand rupees for the establishment of the school and he was the Secretary of the managing committee too. Lt. Bibhav Chandra Mazumdar was enrolled as the Head Master of the school. But as he had to transfer himself to another place for higher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangia College
Rangia College ( as, ৰঙিয়া মহাবিদ্যালয়) is an institution of general higher education stablished on the north bank of mighty Brahmaputra. It is located in Rangiya town of kamrup rural district of Assam. History It was established on 5 August 1963. The college has rendered pioneering services to the community by catering to the needs of the vast and extensive area inhabited predominantly by socially and economically backward segments of the population. Rangia College has been serving the socio-educational needs of the entire North Kamrup area which is primarily a rural base. Departments Arts stream * Arabic * Assamese * Bengali * Bodo * Economics * Education * English * History * Philosophy * Political Science * Sanskrit Science stream * Botany * Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines the census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamrup Region
Kamrup is the modern region situated between two rivers, the Manas and the Barnadi in Western Assam, with the same territorial extent as the Colonial and post-Colonial "Undivided Kamrup district". It was the capital region of two of the three dynasties of Kamarupa and Guwahati, the current political center of Assam, is situated here. It is characterized by its cultural artifacts. Etymology The origin of name is attributed to a legend in the Kalika Purana which mentions that it is in this region that Kamadeva regained his form. Ancient Kamrup (350–1140) The history of the Kamrup region dates back to the 4th century under Kamarupa Kingdom. The kingdom was successively ruled by three dynasties - the Varman, the Mlechchha (Mech) and the Pala dynasties. Among these, the capitals of the Varman Dynasty and the Pala Dynasty, called Pragjyotishpura and Durjaya respectively, were in Kamrup, whereas the capital of the Mlechchha dynasty was in Tezpur outside the Kamrup region. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamarupa Kingdom
Kamarupa (; also called Pragjyotisha or Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa), an early state during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, was (along with Davaka) the first historical kingdom of Assam. Though Kamarupa prevailed from 350 to 1140 CE, Davaka was absorbed by Kamarupa in the 5th century CE."As regards the eastern limits of the kingdom, Davaka was absorbed within Kamarupa under Kalyanavarman and the outlying regions were brought under subjugation by Mahendravarman." Ruled by three dynasties from their capitals in present-day Guwahati, North Guwahati and Tezpur, Kamarupa at its height covered the entire Brahmaputra Valley, North Bengal, Bhutan and northern part of Bangladesh, and at times portions of what is now West Bengal, Bihar and Sylhet. Though the historical kingdom disappeared by the 12th century to be replaced by smaller political entities, the notion of Kamarupa persisted and ancient and medieval chroniclers continued to call a part of this kingdom Kamrup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamapitha
Kamapitha is one of the four Kamarupa Pithas, the geographical divisions of ancient Kamarupa. Dineshchandra Sircar points out that these divisions are not found in the Kamarupa inscriptions and that they might be fabrications from late medieval sources, such as 16th-century work Yogini Tantra gives the boundaries of Kamapitha and other three pithas, the same work which gives boundaries of ancient Kamrup kingdom as well. The eastern border of Kamarupa was the temple of the goddess Tamreshvari (''Pūrvāte Kāmarūpasya devī Dikkaravasini'', given in the 10th-century Kalika Purana) near present-day Sadiya Boundaries Traditional sources defines boundaries of Kamapitha as area between Manas river and Silghat, Sankosh and Kapili river, based on ancient work Yogini Tantra, areas comprising western boundary of current Kamrup and part of Nagaon district as eastern boundary, in first case, while in second case, Undivided Kamrup plus small part of Undivided Goalpara District. Modern schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Kamrup
Kamrup is the modern region situated between two rivers, the Manas and the Barnadi in Western Assam, with the same territorial extent as the Colonial and post-Colonial "Undivided Kamrup district". It was the capital region of two of the three dynasties of Kamarupa and Guwahati, the current political center of Assam, is situated here. It is characterized by its cultural artifacts. Etymology The origin of name is attributed to a legend in the Kalika Purana which mentions that it is in this region that Kamadeva regained his form. Ancient Kamrup (350–1140) The history of the Kamrup region dates back to the 4th century under Kamarupa Kingdom. The kingdom was successively ruled by three dynasties - the Varman, the Mlechchha (Mech) and the Pala dynasties. Among these, the capitals of the Varman Dynasty and the Pala Dynasty, called Pragjyotishpura and Durjaya respectively, were in Kamrup, whereas the capital of the Mlechchha dynasty was in Tezpur outside the Kamrup region. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
