Karimganj, officially Sribhumi, is a town in the

Karimganj district Karimganj district, officially Sribhumi district, is one of the 35 List of districts of Assam, districts of the Indian state of Assam. The district's administrative headquarters and largest town is Karimganj. Located in southern Assam, it shares ...

of the

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Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. It is the administrative headquarters of the district. Karimganj town is located at . The area of Karimganj Town is 16.09 km². It has an average elevation of 13 metres (42 feet).

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and Meitei(Manipuri) are the official and the additional official languages of the town respectively. On 21 November 2024, the

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renamed Karimganj town as Sribhumi town.

Demographics

Population

As per as the official census of 2011, Karimganj Town had a population of 56,854 of which 28,473 are males while 28,381 are females. Children in the age group of 0 to 6 years were 4,946. Karimganj had a literacy rate of 86.35%, out of which male literacy was 87.91% and female literacy was 84.78%. The sex ratio is 996. There were 12,234 households as of 2011.

Religion

Most of the people in the town follow

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, with significant followers of

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and a small

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and Jain population.

Politics

Karimganj is a part of

Karimganj North Assembly constituency Karimganj North Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies of the Assam Legislative Assembly. Karimganj North (constituency number 3) is one of the 5 constituencies located in Karimganj district. Karimganj North is part of Karimganj ...

and

Karimganj (Lok Sabha constituency) Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India, covering Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in the Barak Valley. Assembly segments Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is composed of ...

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

Kripanath Mallah Kripanath Mallah (born 15 October 1973) is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament in the 18th Lok Sabha from Karimganj constituency of Assam. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He ha ...

is the current Member of Parliament from

Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India, covering Karimganj district, Karimganj and Hailakandi district, Hailakandi districts in the Barak Valley. Assembly segments Karimga ...

. While

Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha is an Indian politician from the State of Assam, belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as MLA of Karimganj North (Vidhan Sabha constituency) for the first time in 2011 defeating the four-time BJP MLA M ...

is the MLA from

Educational institutes

Various educational institutions and

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are well established and run by the government in Karimganj. Among them, the most notable are: *

Barak Valley Engineering College Barak Valley Engineering College (BVEC) is a state government Engineering education in India, engineering college located in Karimganj, Karimganj, Assam. It was established on 14 August 2017 by Assam Government at Karimganj district, Assam. It i ...

(BVEC). Located 22.6 km away from the town, it is the first and only State

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Engineering college Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education ( Dip.Eng.)and (B.Eng.) or ( M.Eng.), and any advanced education and specializations tha ...

in the entire Barak valley * Karimganj Polytechnic Degree colleges: *

Karimganj College Karimganj College, established in 1946, is one of the oldest undergraduate, coeducational college situated in Karimganj, Assam and is affiliated with the Assam University. Departments The college has total 19 departments and centres covering s ...

* Karimganj Law College * Ramkrishna Nagar College *

Rabindra Sadan Girls' College Rabindra Sadan Girls' College, established in 1962, is a general degree women's college situated in Karimganj, Assam. This college is affiliated with the Assam University. Departments Science *Physics *Mathematics *Chemistry *Statistics *Comput ...

Sports parks: *

Government Boys' HS School Ground A cricket ground located on the campus of the Government Boys' Higher Secondary School in Karimganj, Assam, and hosted two of the Assam cricket team's matches during the 1993–94 Indian domestic season. Playground Karimganj, lying along the ...

All college's in Karimganj are affiliated with

Assam University Assam University is a central public university located at Silchar, Assam, India. It was founded in the year 1994 by the provisions of an act enacted by the Parliament of India. Former Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha is the Chancellor, the Gover ...

Notable people

* Dwarka Nath Das, former MP of

Karimganj Karimganj, officially Sribhumi, is a town in the Karimganj district of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Assam. It is the administrative headquarters of the district. Karimganj town is located at . The area of Karimganj Tow ...

(1991-1998) *

, current MP of

Bijoy Malakar Bijoy Malakar is an Indian politician, who was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Ratabari in the 2019 by election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party due to Kripanath Mallah Kripanath Mallah (born 15 October 1973) is an ...

, current MLA of Ratabari LAC, Karimganj * Siddique Ahmed, MLA of Karimganj South

References

External links

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