A Town Area Committee is a semi-municipal authority constituted for the administration of small towns in India. It is assigned a limited number of civic functions like street lighting, drainage, roads, conservancy etc. Town area committees is established by a separate act passed by a state legislature. The act mentions the composition, functions, and other matters related to the
The Tiwa Autonomous Council (Tiwashong) is one of the Autonomous regions of India for the welfare and protection of the Tiwa people in the Indian State of Assam. It was formed in 1995. Tiwa Autonomous Council (Tiwashong) Type Type Autonomous District Council Term limits 5 years Leadership Chief Executive Member Jiban Chandra Konwar[1] Deputy Chief Executive Member Tulsi Bardoloi Structure Seats 36
Tiwa (Lalung) is an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the states of Assam and Meghalaya in northeastern India. They are also found in some areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland. They are recognized as a Scheduled tribe within the State of Assam. They were known as Lalungs in the Assamese Buranjis and in Colonial literature and in the Constitution of India, though members of the group prefer to call themselves Tiwa (meaning “the
Nagaon is a Lok Sabha constituency in Assam. Contents 1Assembly segments 2Members of Parliament 3Election Results 3.1General elections 2019 3.2General elections 2014 3.3General elections 2009 4See also 5References 6External links Assembly segments Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments: Constituency number Name 79 Jagiroad 80 Marigaon 81 Laharighat 82 Raha 86 Nagaon 87 Barhampur 90
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
Morigaon College, established in 1964, is one of the oldest undergraduate, coeducational college situated in Morigaon, Assam. This college is affiliated with the Gauhati University. Contents 1Departments 1.1Science 1.2Arts and Commerce 2References 3External links Departments Science Physics Mathematics Chemistry Anthropology Botany Zoology Arts and Commerce Assamese English Disaster Management History Education Economics Philosophy Political Science Hindi Geography Commerce
Jalia Kaibarta (or Jaliya Kaibartta, or: Jāliya Kaibbarta, possibly also: Jalia Kaibartya) is a community comprising people of low ritual status, fishermen, who later acquired respectable caste identities within the larger Hindu fold, helped by their commercial prosperity and Vaishnavite affiliations, through Sanskritisation. They are traditionally engaged in the occupation of fishing and originally belonged to Assam, West Bengal, Odisha and eastern Bihar along with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan. The
The Guwahati–Lumding section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Guwahati and Lumding Junction. The 179-kilometre (111 mi) long railway line operates in the Indian state of Assam. It is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. Contents 1History 2Broad gauge 3Line doubling 4Railway reorganisation 5Jagiroad train derailment 6References History In the pre-partition days, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akhaura-Kulaura-Chhatak Line and Akhaura-Laksam-Chittagong Line. The Chittagong link had
The Samoothiri (Anglicised as Zamorin; Tamil: Sāmūtiri, Arabic: Sāmuri, Portuguese: Samorim, Dutch: Samorijn, Chinese: Shamitihsi) was the hereditary monarch of the kingdom of Kozhikode (Calicut) on the South Malabar region of India. Calicut was one of the important trading ports on the south-western coast of India. At the peak of their reign, the Zamorins ruled over a region from Kollam (Quilon) to Panthalayini Kollam (Koyilandy). It was after the dissolution of the
Sheikh Ahmad Zainuddin Makhdoom bin Sheikh Muhammad Al Gazzali (Arabic: شيخ احمد زين الدين بن شيخ محمد غزالي المليباري; Ahmad Zayn al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Ghazāli al-Malibári), grandson of Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdoom I, was the writer, orator, historian, jurisprudent and spiritual leader and widely known as Zainuddin Makhdoom Second or Zaniudeen Makhdoom Al Sageer (زين الدين المخدوم الصغير) whose family