List of districts of Assam

Map of districts of Assam, coloured by division:- Green: Lower Assam, Purple: North Assam, Yellow: Central Assam, Orange: Barak Valley, Red: Upper Assam

Assam, a northeastern state of India, is divided into 35 administrative geographical units called districts. Assam has 35 districts.

Administration's

A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by the District Commissioner (DC), which combines the offices of the District Magistrate ultimately responsible for maintaining law and order and District Collector responsible for collection of the revenue. Generally, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service becomes the DC but occasionally officers belonging to the Assam Civil Service do get appointed. The DC is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of the state.

The districts of Assam are grouped together in five regional divisions, headed by a Commissioner. A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues. The police administration in Guwahati City is headed by the Commissioner of Police, which started functioning from 1 January 2015.

History

Before the Independence in 1947, Assam had 13 districts. The districts were Cachar (14 August 1832), Darrang (1833), Goalpara, Kamrup, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Sivasagar, Jayantia parganas, Garo hills, Lushai hills, Naga hills, Sylhet and NEFA. The British India protectorate 4 princely states under Assam state were Tripura, Khasi states, Koch Bihar and Manipur (included during Independence). Sylhet district had been given to East Pakistan at the time of the Partition. After many inclusion and exclusion during the independence and later till 1972, Assam formed the present shape with its prime 7 districts. The other 6 districts curved out of Assam; Jayantia, Garo and Khasi were combined and became Meghalya State; Lushiai hills became Mizoram; Naga hills became Nagaland; NEFA became Arunachal Pradesh; the both princely states Tripura and Manipur included in Assam and later separated as state and Koch Bihar became part of West Bengal.

On 17 November 1951, United Mikir and North Cachar Hills district curved out of Golaghat, Nagaon, Cachar, Jayantia and Naga hills districts.

On 2 February 1970, Mikir Hills district curved out of North Cachar Hills.

On 2nd Octobar 1976, Dibrugarh district curved out of Lakhimpur and the Name of Mikir Hills district changed to Karbi Anglong district.

On 1st July 1983, Barpeta district curved out of Kamrup; On 14th July Sonitpur district curved out of Darrang; Jorhat district curved out of Sibsagar, Dhubri district and Kokrajhar district curved out of Goalpara; Karimganj district curved out of Cachar.

On 14 August 1985, Nalbari district curved out of Kamrup.

On 15 August 1987, Golaghat district curved out of Sibsagar.

In 1989, on 29th September Hailakandi district curved out of Cachar and Bongaigaon district curved out of Goalpara and Kokrajhar, on 1st October Tinsukia district curved out of Dibrugarh, 14th October Dhemaji district curved out of Lakhimpur and on 26th November Marigaon district curved out Nagaon.

On 3 February 2003, Kamrup Metropolitan district curved out of Kamrup.

On 1 June 2004, Baksa district curved out of Barpeta, Nalbari, and Kamrup; on 4 June, Chirang district curved out of Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar and On 14 June, Udalguri district curved out of Darrang and Sonitpur; along with Kokrajhar district formed BTAD.

On 1 April 2010, the name of North Cachar Hills district changed to Dima Hasao.

On 15 August 2015, Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam, announced the formation of five new districts in the state, taking the total number from 27 to 32. The five new districts are the following: Biswanath (carved out of Sonitpur); Charaideo (carved out of Sivasagar); Hojai (carved out of Nagaon); South Salmara-Mankachar (carved out of Dhubri); West Karbi Anglong (carved out of Karbi Anglong).

On 26 January 2016, 2 more districts were announced, but on 7 October 2016, the Govt. has withdrawn district status of East Kamrup and South Kamrup due to inadequate infrastructure. The two sub-divisions of East Kamrup district - viz. Chandrapur and Sonapur, is now part of Kamrup Metropolitan district. The sub-divisions of South Kamrup district is now part of Kamrup Rural district.

On 27 June 2016, one more district was announced by Sarbananda Sonowal, taking the total number from 32 to 33 which is Majuli (carved out of the Northern parts of Jorhat). It is the first river island district of India.

On 8 August 2020 The Assam cabinet approved a proposal to make Bajali (curved out of Barpeta) the 34th full-fledged district of Assam. The Assam Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma approved the proposal to make Tamulpur curved out from Baksa district a full-fledged district. On 23 January 2022 Tamulpur was formally declared as a 35th district of Assam.

On 31 December 2022 Assam Cabinet has decided to merge four newly carved districts with existing four districts. These districts were,

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Bishwa Sarma said it is a temporary measure before ECI delimitation process in the state and government may reconsider it.

On 25 August, 2023 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the decision to recreate the four newly merged districts of Biswanath, Hojai, Bajali, and Tamulpur from their original districts. Therefore, the total number of districts in Assam has once again become 35.

Districts

The areas and populations of the 35 districts are given below:

Code District Headquarter Population (2011) Area (km²) Density (/km²) Map
BK Baksa# Mushalpur 950,075 2,457 387
BJ Bajali Pathsala 253,816 418 610
BP Barpeta Barpeta 1,693,622 3182 532
BN Biswanath Biswanath Chariali 612,491 1415 430
BO Bongaigaon Bongaigaon 738,804 1,093 676
CA Cachar Silchar 1,736,319 3,786 459
CD Charaideo Sonari 471,418 1,069 441
CH Chirang# Kajalgaon 482,162 1,170 412
DR Darrang Mangaldai 928,500 1,585 586
DM Dhemaji Dhemaji 686,133 3,237 212
DU Dhubri Dhubri 1,394,144 1,608 867
DI Dibrugarh Dibrugarh 1,326,335 3,381 392
DH Dima Hasao Haflong 214,102 4,890 44
GP Goalpara Goalpara 1,008,183 1,824 553
GG Golaghat Golaghat 1,066,888 3,502 305
HA Hailakandi Hailakandi 659,296 1,327 497
HJ Hojai Sankardev Nagar 931,218 1686 550
JO Jorhat Jorhat 924,952 2,851 324
KM Kamrup Metropolitan Guwahati 1,253,938 1,528 821
KU Kamrup Amingaon 1,517,542 3,105 489
KG Karbi Anglong Diphu 660,955 7,366 90
KR Karimganj Karimganj 1,228,686 1,809 679
KJ Kokrajhar# Kokrajhar 887,142 3,169 280
LA Lakhimpur North Lakhimpur 1,042,137 2,277 458
MJ Majuli Garamur 167,304 880 190
MA Morigaon Morigaon 957,423 1,704 562
NN Nagaon Nagaon 2,823,768 3,973 711
NB Nalbari Nalbari 771,639 2,257 342
SV Sivasagar Sivasagar 679,632 2,668 255
ST Sonitpur Tezpur 1,924,110 3,176 606
SS South Salmara-Mankachar Hatsingimari 555,114 568 977
TP Tamulpur Tamulpur 389,150 884 440
TI Tinsukia Tinsukia 1,327,929 3,790 350
UD Udalguri# Udalguri 831,688 1,852 449
WK West Karbi Anglong Hamren 295,358 3,035 97

# Districts within the Bodoland Territorial Region

See also

External links


This page was last updated at 2024-01-07 15:20 UTC. Update now. View original page.

All our content comes from Wikipedia and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


Top

If mathematical, chemical, physical and other formulas are not displayed correctly on this page, please useFirefox or Safari