The Dibrugarh Municipal Board is one of the oldest municipalities in North East

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, established in 1873. The city since then has become an important nerve center of political, administrative, cultural and commercial activities of a vast region comprising entire eastern

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

and

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

.It is upgraded to Municipal Corporation in October 2021.Assam Assembly passed The Assam Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill on 16.09.2022. With this, Silchar & Dibrugarh Municipal Boards have been converted to Corporations.

History

The British arrived in Assam in 1826 as per Yandaboo Accord and since then they selected

Dibrugarh Dibrugarh (pron: ˌdɪbru:ˈgɑ:) is an industrial city in Upper Assam with sprawling tea gardens. It is located 435 kms East from the state capital of Dispur. It serves as the headquarters of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam in ...

as a centre of Administration as well as business purpose in

Upper Assam Upper Assam is an administrative division of the state of Assam comprising the undivided Lakhimpur and Sivasagar (previously, Sibsagar) districts, of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra valley. The other divisions are: Lower Assam, North Assam a ...

. In 1842 Dibrugarh was announced as the headquarters of

Lakhimpur District Lakhimpur district ( ) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarter is located at North Lakhimpur. The district is bounded on the North by Siang and Papumpare districts of Arunachal Pradesh and on the Eas ...

. The court was also shifted to Dibrugarh in the same year from Lakhimpur.

Geography

Dibrugarh is located along 27' 28' N latitude and 94' 35' E longitude. The municipal area of Dibrugarh is 15.5 km² and is divided into 22 wards.http://dibrugarhmunicipality.org.in/

References

Dibrugarh Local government in Assam {{Assam-stub