Kalihati ( bn, কালিহাতী) is an

upazila An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...

Tangail District Tangail ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল জেলা) formerly a small Mohokuma of Greater Mymensingh district is a district (''zila'') in the central region of Bangladesh. In 1969, Tangail district was created by Tangail Mohokuma from its 237 ...

Dhaka Division Dhaka Division ( bn, ঢাকা বিভাগ, ''Ḑhaka Bibhag'') is an administrative division within Bangladesh. Dhaka serves as the capital city of the Dhaka Division, the Dhaka District and Bangladesh. The division remains a populati ...

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History

It has a historical background during the liberation war in 1971. A great child of this land named

Kader Siddiqui Abdul Kader Siddique ( bn, আবদুল কাদের সিদ্দিকী) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is popularly known under the title of Bangabir. He served as a Mukti Bahini member and organizer of the Bangladesh Liberation ...

who later gained the great title "Bir Uttom" for his contribution to the war. After the liberation war he gave 32 trucks of weapons to the government. In the liberation period he formed a group named "Kaderia Bahini" with the brave bangalees. The "Kaderia Bahini" was very ferocious against the Pakistanis. The Kalihati thana was established in 1928 and was turned into an upazila in 1983.

Geography

Kalihati is located at . It has 65035 households and total area of 295.6 km².The upazila is surrounded by Bhuapur &

Ghatail Upazila Ghatail is an upazila located in Tangail District, Bangladesh. The upazila is bounded by Gopalpur and Madhupur upazilas on the north, Fulbaria and Bhaluka upazilas on the east, Kalihati and Sakhipur upazilas on the south, Bhuapur and Gop ...

on the north, Tangail Sadar and Basail Upazila on the south,

Sakhipur Upazila Sakhipur ( bn, সখিপুর) is an upazila of Tangail District in the division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Administration Sakhipur Upazila is divided into Sakhipur Municipality and Ten union parishads: Baheratoil, Dariapur, Gazaria, Hatiba ...

on the east, and the

Jamuna River The Jamuna River ( bn, যমুনা ''Jomuna'') is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh. It is the lower stream of the Brahmaputra River, which originates in Tibet as Yarlung Tsangpo, before flowing into India and then southwest into ...

on the west.

Demographics

As of the

2011 Bangladesh census In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...

, Kalihati has a population of 410,293. Males constitute 51.55% of the population, and females 48.45%. Kalihati has an average literacy rate of 42.9% (7+ years). Literacy rate for male is 46.1% and for female is 39.8%.

Administration

Kalihati Upazila is divided into 2 municipalities and 13

union parishad Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit ...

s: Balla, Bangra, Bir Bashinda, Dashkia,

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and Shahadebpur. Kalihati Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 18

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Elenga Elenga ( bn, এলেঙ্গা) is a town in Kalihati Upazila of Tangail District, Bangladesh. The town is situated away from Tangail city and northwest of Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), List of renamed place ...

Municipality was established in 2013.

Education

* Biyara Marua Govt. Primary School * Elenga High School * Jetendra Bala Girls High School * Samsul Haque College * Lutfor Rahman Motin Mohila College * Elenga BM College *

Bangabandhu Textile Engineering College Bangabandhu Textile Engineering College (BTEC) is a textile based research college located in Kalihati, Tangail. The college is academically operated by Bangladesh University of Textiles, BUTEX and was previously affiliated with University of D ...

* Kalihati College * Kalihati R S Govt. Pilot High School * Rajafair High School * Nagbari Hasina Chowdhury High School * Balla high school and College * Rampur High School * Lion Ferdous alom Firoz high School & College * Narandia TRKN High School & College * Nagar Bari Agriculture College * Nagar Bari BM College * Gopal Dighi K.P.U. High School * Kasturipara Adarsha Junior Girls School * Khilda High School * Potol High School

Notable residents

* Debapriya Bhattacharya, economist * Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, jurist and President of Bangladesh (1972–1973); born in Nagbari in 1921 *

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, film actor and producer; born in Elenga village in 1964 and is buried there *

Abdul Kader Siddique Abdul Kader Siddique ( bn, আবদুল কাদের সিদ্দিকী) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is popularly known under the title of Bangabir. He served as a Mukti Bahini member and organizer of the Bangladesh Liberation ...

Abdul Latif Siddiqui Abdul Latif Siddiqui (born 1943) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He represented the Tangail-4 constituency for two terms in the Bangladesh Parliament. He served as the Minister of Textiles and Jute in the second Hasina ministry and ...

, Member of Parliament for constituency Tangail-4 1996–2001 and 2009–2015 *Shajahan Siraj, Member of Parliament for constituency Tangail-4

References

Upazilas of Tangail District {{Dhaka-geo-stub