Administrative divisions of Assam

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Administrative division of Assam:
  •   Lower Assam
  •   North Assam
  •   Upper Assam
  •   Central Assam
  •   Barak Valley

The state of Assam in India has five regional divisions, each comprising a number of districts. The Divisional Commissioner is the head of administration of a division.[citation needed]

History

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Location of the oldest urban centres recognised as a municipality region of Assam before 1947.[1][2]

In 1874, Assam was constituted as a Chief Commissioner's province with the seat of the government in Shillong, the erstwhile capital of Assam, which is now in Meghalaya. To better administer the six districts of Goalpara, Kamrup, Sonitpur, Nagaon (formerly, Nowgong), Sivasagar (formerly, Sibsagar) and Lakhimpur, (the districts in the Brahmaputra valley, also called Assam Valley), the Judge of Assam Valley was given the additional charge of a commissioner in 1880.[3] In 1905, the offices of the Judge and the Commissioner were segregated in the Assam Valley;[4] in addition to adding a separate Commissioner's office for the administration of the Hill Districts and Surma Valley.[5]

List of divisions

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Current divisions

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Division Name Divisional Office Districts Population Area
Barak Valley Silchar Cachar, Hailakandi, and Karimganj 3,612,581
Central Assam and Hills Nagaon Dima Hasao, Hojai, Karbi Anglong, West Karbi Anglong, Morigaon, and Nagaon 5,894,460
Lower Assam Guwahati Baksa, Barpeta, Bajali, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Nalbari, Kamrup Metropolitan, Kamrup Rural, Kokrajhar, and South Salmara-Mankachar, Tamulpur 13,179,980
North Assam Tezpur Biswanath, Darrang, Sonitpur, and Udalguri 4,246,834
Upper Assam Jorhat Charaideo, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Sivasagar, and Tinsukia 7,840,943

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Proposed divisions (new) [citation needed]

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Division Name Divisional Office Districts
Assam Hills Diphu Dima Hasao, Karbi Anglong, and West Karbi Anglong
Barak Valley Silchar Cachar, Hailakandi, and Karimganj
Bodoland Kokrajhar Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, and Udalguri
Central Assam Nagaon Hojai, Morigaon, and Nagaon
Kamrup Guwahati Darrang, East Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Kamrup Rural, and South Kamrup
Lower Assam Bongaigaon Barpeta, Bajali, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Goalpara, Nalbari, and South Salmara-Mankachar
North Assam Tezpur Biswanath, Lakhimpur, and Sonitpur
Upper Assam Jorhat Charaideo, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Majuli, Sivasagar, and Tinsukia

Municipal corporations

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Municipal corporation (present)

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Municipal corporation (proposed)

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Oldest recognised and constantly inhabited urban areas

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The list of the oldest urban areas based on the earliest years of formation of the civic bodies,[8][9] constituted before India's Independence of 1947.

Type Formation period Urban areas
Municipal board region Prior to India's independence in 1947
  1. Guwahati[10]
  2. Silchar[11]
  3. Dibrugarh[12]
  4. Goalpara[13]
  5. Dhubri[14]
  6. Nagaon[15]
  7. Tezpur[16]
  8. Jorhat[17]
  9. Golaghat[18]

References

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  3. ^ "In 1879, Sir Bayley, therefore, proposed to the Government of India that the Judge of Assam Valley to be the ex-officio Commissioner of Assam Valley. High Court objected to the proposal. But Government of India approved the scheme and the Chief Commissioner invested the Judge of Assam with the powers of a Commissioner of a Division." (Bose 1985, p. 32)
  4. ^ (Bose 1985, p. 33)
  5. ^ (Bose 1985, p. 36)
  6. ^ (Press Trust of India2015)
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Sources

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