Karimganj

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::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Karimganj
native_name
official_name	Sribhumi
settlement_type	Town
leader_name	Rabindra Chandra Deb
leader_title1	Vice Chairman
leader_name1	Sukhendu Das (BJP)
total_type	Total
photo1a	This is a clear photo of the karimganj city.jpg
photo2a	AOC Point, Sribhumi Town.jpg
color_border	black
color	black
size	280
image_caption	Top to bottom: Silchar road, AOC point
pushpin_map	India Assam#India#Asia
pushpin_label_position	left
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	India
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Assam
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Karimganj
established_title
government_type	Municipality
governing_body	Karimganj Municipality Board
leader_party	BJP
leader_title	Chairman
unit_pref	Metric
elevation_m	13
population_total	56,854
population_as_of	2011
population_rank	12
population_density_km2	16.09
demographics_type1	Languages
demographics1_title1	Official
demographics1_info1	Bengali
demographics1_title2	Associate official
demographics1_info2	Meitei (Manipuri)
demographics1_title3	Regional
demographics1_info3	Sylheti
timezone1	IST
utc_offset1	+5:30
postal_code_type	PIN
postal_code	788710 to 788713
registration_plate	AS 10
website
iso_code	IN-AS
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::callout[type=note] the municipality in India ::

Karimganj, officially Sribhumi, is a town in the Karimganj district of the Indian state of Assam. 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).

Bengali and Meitei (Manipuri) are the official and the additional official languages of the town respectively.

On 21 November 2024, the Assam government 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

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Most of the people in the town follow Hinduism, with significant followers of Islam and a small Christian and Jain population.

Politics

Karimganj is a part of Karimganj North Assembly constituency and Karimganj (Lok Sabha constituency).

Bharatiya Janata Party's Kripanath Mallah is the current Member of Parliament from Karimganj Lok Sabha constituency. While Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha is the MLA from Karimganj North Assembly constituency.

Educational institutes

Various educational institutions and higher secondary are well established and run by the government in Karimganj.

Among them, the most notable are:

Barak Valley Engineering College (BVEC). Located 22.6 km away from the town, it is the first and only State Govt-Engineering college in the entire Barak Valley.
Karimganj Polytechnic

Degree colleges:

Sports parks:

Government Boys' HS School Ground

All colleges in Karimganj are affiliated with Assam University.

Notable people

Dwarka Nath Das, former MP of Karimganj (1991-1998)
Kripanath Mallah, current MP of Karimganj
Bijoy Malakar, current MLA of Ratabari LAC, Karimganj
Siddique Ahmed, MLA of Karimganj South

References

"Sylheti".
"List of All City Name in Assam - Check Zip Code at Citypincode.in".
"redirect to /world/IN/00/Karimganj.html".
(9 September 2014). "Govt withdraws Assamese as official language from Barak valley". Business Standard India.
Purkayastha, Biswa Kalyan. (24 February 2024). "Assam recognises Manipuri as associate official language in four districts". Hindustan Times.
(21 November 2024). "Assam govt renames Karimganj district to Sribhumi; CM Sarma justifies move". Business Standard.
"2011 Census - Karimganj (MB)". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
"District Census Handbook - Karimganj".
"C-1 Population By Religious Community". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
"List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies". Election Commission of India.
"Barak Valley Engineering College".
"List of All Colleges In Karimganj, Assam".
"Assam University, Silchar - Affiliated Colleges, Assam".
(17 April 2019). "Constituency Watch: Which way blow waves of minority and tea workers in Karimganj?". Northeast Now.
"Kripanath Mallah(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- Karimganj (Assam) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
"Bijoy Malakar (Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)):Constituency- Ratabari (SC) (Karimganj) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".

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