Dibrugarh

This article is about the municipality in India. For its namesake district, see Dibrugarh district.

Dibrugarh ডিব্ৰুগড
—  city  —
Dibrugarh Location of Dibrugarh in Assam and India
Coordinates	27°29′N 95°00′E
Country	India
State	Assam
District(s)	Dibrugarh
Population	11,00,523 (2011)
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 94 metres (308 ft)
Codes • Pincode • 786001 • Telephone • +0373 • Vehicle • AS-06
Website	www.dibrugarh.nic.in

Dibrugarh (Assamese: ডিব্ৰুগড় ) is the headquarters of Dibrugarh district, Assam, India, and is a second largest city in Assam. It is situated on the banks of the Brahmaputra River, about 435 kilometres (270 mi) north-east of Guwahati. It is the gateway to the three tea-producing districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, and Sibsagar. These three areas account for approximately 50% of India's Assam tea crop and this gives Dibrugarh its rightly earned sobriquet as the "Tea City of India". Oil and timber are the other two big industries in and around Dibrugarh.The district of Dibrugarh with only one sub-division is situated in the eastern part of Assam. The district is surrounded by Dhemaji district and a part of Lakhimpur district in the north, part of Sivasagar district and Arunachal Pradesh in the south, Tinsukia district in the East and Sivasagar dist in the West. The Brahmaputra River flows in the north of the city. The river Brahmaputra flows throughout the North Western boundary of the district. The only tributary falling at Brahmaputra in the district is Buridihing tributary which divided the district from East to West. It touches the town Naharkatia in the East, Khowang in the middle and at the last part of its course forms the boundary line between Dibrugarh and Sibsagar districts. The Dibrugarh district is a plain district of Assam. The entire is flat with gradual slop from the East Arunachal hills to the West. The soil of the district is mostly fertile Alluvial soil and this adjorning with the river Brahmaputra are composed sand and clay in varying proportion.

In 1950, the Medog earthquake measuring over 8.6 on the Richter Scale, changed the course of the Brahmaputra River, and this caused the destruction of more than three quarters of the town. It has since then been rebuilt, but the Brahmaputra River nearby is, as it always has been, a constant reminder to its people that live in its shadow, of its turbulence and all encompassing journey to the sea.

Demographics

A view of sunset from Dibrugarh

As of 2001 India census, Dibrugarh had a population of 1,00,523. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Dibrugarh has an average literacy rate of 81%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82% and, female literacy is 80%. In Dibrugarh, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Economy

Economic activities in the district is dominated by two major industries: oil & natural gas and tea production. It was in Digboi that first oil well was dug during the British era. Duliajan, Hugrijan and Moran are the key locations for oil and gas industry in the district. Duliajan also happens to be the headquarter of the Public Sector Undertaking Oil India Limited.

Apart from this, Dibrugarh district boasts of the highest amount of tea produced in India. There are several tea gardens dating back to the British era.

Dibrugarh is also famous for wood and wood works, plywood factories in Margherita, cane and bamboo furniture, etc. Cottage industries specializing in production of Assam silk (Muga Silk), phulam gamosa (a traditional piece of cloth, used as ornate head-scarf as well as towel), mekhela chador (the famous traditional pure silk dress of Assam state). Chador are also in vogue.

BCPL

The Assam Gas Cracker Project also known as BRAHMAPUTRA CRACKER AND POLYMER LIMITED was proposed as a part of implementation of Assam Accord signed by Government of India on 15 August 1985. The Assam Gas Cracker Project has been approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in its meeting held on 18 April 2006 under an equity arrangement of GAIL (70%), OIL (10%), NRL (10%) and Govt. of Assam (10%) with a project cost of Rs. 5460.61 crores in which capital subsidy is Rs.2138 Crores. The project schedule for completion of the project is 60 months.However the commissioning of the project has been pushed to December 2013 and the cost has escalated to Rs 9,285 crore. The site selected for Assam Gas Cracker Project is at Lepetkata, 15 km from Dibrugarh town on NH37 along river Sessa in Assam. A Joint Venture agreement has been signed on 18.10.2006 and the company 'Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited' was registered on 08.01.2007. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India laid the foundation stone of this project on 9 April 2007.

Transport

1. AIRPORT

Mohanbari Airport, which is located around 15 km from the city, is one of the busiest airport in the northeast and 2nd busiest in assam after guwahati, both in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movement. It is connected to the rest of India by airlines such as Air India,Indigo, Jetlite, and Jet Airways. There are direct flight services to Delhi,Kolkata,Vadodara and Guwahati.JelLite will be introducing a new flight to Kolkata from 28th of october,2012 at 9:00 am. Connecting flights are available to rest of india from guwahati, kolkata and delhi. AAI is planning to make Mohanbari Airport an air hub in the northeastern region along with Guwahati and Agartala.According to AAI modernisation plan there would be a

2. Railways

Dibrugarh is shown as one of the easternmost Railway Station on the map of the Indian Railways and is connected to some important Indian cities (Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum, Kolkata, Delhi, Kanyakumari etc.) through a direct broad gauge rail network. The Rajdhani-Link Express (An extension of Rajdhani Express) also connects it to New Delhi. The Vivek Express, named after Swami Vivekanda, which connects Dibrugarh with Kanyakumari is now the longest train service in India, covering a distance of 4278 KM in five days. Important trains that run from Dibrugarh are Vivek Express, Rajdhani Link Express, Kamrup Express, Brahmaputra Mail, Egmore Express, Yeshvantpur Express etc. Dibrugarh town railway station is one of the oldest railway station in india. A new railway junction named as New Dibrugarh Railway Junction is being developed on the outskirts of the city at banipur. It is the biggest railway junction in the entire north east spreading over 400 bighas of land and it is 2 kms in length. One goods yard is also being developed for loading an dunloading of goods along with a truck shed, which can accomodate 25 trucks at a time

3. Higways

NHAI is proposing to make dibrugarh a NHAI hub after the completion of bogibeel bridge. dibrugarh is connected to the rest of india by NH-37. after the completion of bogibeel bridge it will be connected to northern bank of brahmaputra by NH-52(B).A new bye pass is being constructed to ease traffic movement within the city area near jameera. A new flyover is under construction near dibrugarh university area.During 1990s, transportation within the town was largely by buses and rickshaws. Later on auto rickshaws, locally known as "Vikram", were introduced for intra-city transportation. There are long-distance luxury buses plying between important destinations withinin Assam and other neighbouring states.

Dibrugarh also has a developed waterway transportation system. Ferry services link Dibrugarh with many a places in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

Education

A new engineering college, known as Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology (DUIET), has been established under Dibrugarh University to promote engineering and technology in in dibrugarh.Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering & Technology offers its students a B.Tech degree in one of the following departments : • Computer Science & Engineering • Electronics & Communication Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Petroleum Engineering

Regional Medical Research Centre, NE Region is one of the six regional centres of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). It covers the most remote and less developed eight states of the north-eastern region of India and is responsible for carrying out Biomedical Research in the region. It was established in 1982 and runs with intramural grant from ICMR and extramural ad hoc projects from different funding agencies.

Dibrugarh Polytechnic is located on the outskirt of the town in Lahoal. It offers courses in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Tea Technology, Information Technology, Electronics & Telecommunications, and Engineering.

An Industrial Training Institute (ITI) is located on western outskirt of the city in Borbaruah.

Schools

• Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Dibrugarh
• Little Flower Hr.Secondary School, K C Gogoi Path, Dibrugarh
• Don Bosco school, Convoy Rd, Dibruagrh
• Swarupananda Vidyapith, Borbari, Dibrugarh
• Naliapool Bengali High School, Naliapool, Dibrugarh
• Victoria Girls School, Dibrugarh
• Bengali High School, Dibrugarh
• St. Mary's school, K C Gogoi Path, Dibrugarh
• St. Xavier's school, Dibrugarh
• Brahmaputra Valley Cadet Academy, Dibrugarh
• Sampoorna Kendra Viyalaya, Dibrugarh.
• Govt. Boy's school, Milan Nagar, Dibrugarh
• Govt. Girl's School, Amolapatty Chariali, Dibrugarh
• Victoria Girl's school, Phool Bagan, Dibrugarh
• Prashanti Divine Valley school, Dibrugarh
• Peace Cottage School, Sheuspur, Dibrugarh
• Model School, Dibrugarh
• Salt Brook School, Amlapatty Chariali, Dibrugarh
• Niranjan High school, Dibrugarh
• Jatiya Bidyalaya, Dibrugarh
• Shishu Niketan, Dibrugarh
• Nirmali Girls High School, Dibrugarh
• Kendriya Vidyalaya, Dinjan
• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bamunbari
• Kendriya Vidyalaya, Dibrugarh
• Oil Valley School, Convoy Rd, Dibrugarh
• Shree Agrasen Academy,J halukpara, Dibrugarh

Colleges

• D.H.S.K. College
• D.H.S.K. Commerce College
• Dibru College
• City College
• Gurukul College
• Aniruddha Deva College
• D H S K Law College
• R K B Law College
• C K Hazarika B Ed College
• M G ACADEMY
• Gyan Vigyan Academy
• N E I P C
• SALT BROOK ACADEMY

Medical Facility

Dibrugarh is also known as the medical city of assam. the first medical college of assam, ASSAM MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL wa sesbalished in dibrugarh during british era. formerly it was known as berry white medical college. now AMCH is the largest medicla college of assam. there is a proposal to establish a nurisng college in the AMCH prenises. there are large number of nursing homes and diagnostic centers offering ultra modern medical facilities. some of the popular nursing homes are listed below.

• 1, Aditya Diagnostic and research center, paltan bazar, dibrugarh
• 2. Dr. Damani's nursing home, bordoloi avenue, dirugar
• 3. Archana trauma and orthopedic reseach center, paltan bazar, dibrugarh
• 4. Sanjivani hospital and research center, paltan bazar, dibrugarh
• 5. Srimanta sankardeb hospital and research center, chokidinghee, dibrugarh
• 6. Malpani nurning home, seujpur, dirugarh
• 7. Sistri nursing home, bordoloi avenue, dibrugarh
• 8. J J memorial hospital and research center, bordoloi avenue, dibrugarh
• 9. vee gee hospital, boiragimath, dibrugarh
• 10. Astha hospital, graham bazar, dibrugarh

Information and broadcasting

Being the oldest city of assam, dibrugarh has well established information and broadcating network. AIR (all india radio) is one of the popular radio staionin the entire upper assam and parts of arunachal. dibrugarh dordarshan of prasar bharati is also broadcating and exposing the local talent to rets of india. a number of newspapersbeing published from this premier city, some of them are

• The Assam tribune
• The Sentinel
• The seven sister's Post
• Asomiya pratidin
• Dainik bhoomiputra
• Dainik janasadharan

Politics

Dibrugarh is part of Dibrugarh (Lok Sabha constituency).

Upcoming projects

1. Asian Development Bank sponsored Solid waste management project in lahoal.
2. Asian Development Bank sponsored Dibrugarh drainage development project.
3. Construction of CISF township.
4. Construction of BCPL township.
5. Proposed ITBP battalion

See also

• Dibrugarh University
• Assam Medical College
• Dibrugarh (Lok Sabha constituency)

References

External links

• Government website
• Dibrugarh University,Dibrugarh-786 004, Assam, India
• Aniruddha Deva College
• GURUKUL, The House of Mentors