Silchar | |
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City | |
Clockwise from top: Nazirpatty, Silchar city; Silchar Airport, NIT Silchar, Goldighi Mall, Silchar railway station | |
Nickname: The Island of Peace & The City of Love | |
Coordinates: 24°49′N 92°48′E / 24.82°N 92.8°E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | Assam |
District | Cachar |
Region | Barak Valley |
No. Of Wards | 42 |
Established | 1838 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal corporation |
• Body | Silchar Municipal Corporation |
• Mayor | Niharendra Narayan Tagore, BJP |
• MLA | Dipayan Chakraborty, BJP |
• MP | Parimal Suklabaidya, BJP |
• Deputy Commissioner | Rohan Kumar Jha, IAS |
Area | |
• City | 69.49 km2 (26.83 sq mi) |
Elevation | 22 m (72 ft) |
Population (2011) | |
• City | 172,830 |
• Density | 8,524/km2 (22,080/sq mi) |
• Metro | 228,985[1] |
Demonym | Silcharian |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 788001-788032 & 788118 |
Telephone code | +91 (0) 3842 |
Vehicle registration | AS-11 |
Sex Ratio | 943 ♀️/ 1000 ♂️ |
Climate | Cwa |
Official language | Bengali |
Associate official language | Assamese, Meitei (Manipuri) |
Literacy Rate | 91.05%[1] |
Lok Sabha Constituency | Silchar |
Vidhan Sabha Constituency | Silchar |
Website | www |
Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India.[2] It is second largest city of Assam after Guwahati in terms of area, population and GDP.[3] It is also administrative capital of Barak Valley division.[4][5] It is located 343 kilometres (213 mi; 185 nmi) south east of Guwahati.[6] It was founded by Captain Thomas Fisher in 1832 when he shifted the headquarters of Cachar to Janiganj in Silchar.[7] It earned the moniker "Island of Peace" from Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.[8] Silchar is the site of the world's first polo club and the first competitive polo match.[9][10] In 1985, an Air India flight from Kolkata to Silchar became the world's first all-women crew flight.[11] Silchar was a tea town and Cachar club was the meeting point for tea planters.
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