Silchar Medical College

Silchar Medical College

Silchar Medical College is considered as one of amongst the outstanding institutes offering medical education to the future doctors. The Silchar Medical College is 41 years old and still it has managed to uphold itself as the only medical college and hospital in the eastern part of the country. Silchar Medical College is known to be the only guardian for taking care of the well being of the people living in Barak Valley in Silchar.

Located in the Cachar district in the southern part of Assam, Silchar Medical College is surrounded by beautiful scenic beauty and is recognized and distinguished as one of the finest medical institutions all over the country that are known for their academic performance and for taking care of their patients.

Since the Silchar Medical College is situated in a strategic geographic locality, the college and hospital not only caters to the people living within Assam but also provides the service to the population of the neighborhood states that can include West Manipur, Mizoram, Southern Meghalaya and Northern part of Tripura. Silchar Medical College and Hospital makes available services for the deprived and underprivileged sections of the state’s society as well as those of the neighborhood states.

The Silchar Medical College gets its affiliation from the Assam University. There are numerous courses at under graduate and post graduate level that are offered for the students in various fields. The Silchar Medical College offers excellent facilities for the students of each department.

The courses at the under graduate level include Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Other than the degree courses, there are numerous diploma courses that are made available for the students. The diploma courses include Diploma in Gynecology and Obstetrics, Diploma in Psychological Medicine, Diploma in Laryngology and Otology as well as Diploma in Laryngology and Otology.
 
Other than the degree and diploma courses at under graduate level, there are numerous courses offered at post graduate level. The courses include MD that is Doctor of Medicine and MS that is Master of Surgery. These masters are offered in distinct fields.
 
The candidate applying for the under graduate courses must have cleared 10+2 from any of the recognized Board with a minimum percentile of 50% in Chemistry, Biology and Physics. For admission, there is an entrance test conducted by the All India as well as state level selection bodies.

For the post graduate courses, it is mandatory for the candidate to have a MBBS degree from reputed medical college. The candidates for the post graduate courses are also selected on basis of entrance tests that are carried out by All India and state level selection bodies.

There are numerous facilities that are provided to the students who come for the studies from various parts all over the country. Some of the facilities that are made available for the students include hostel facilities separately for boys and girls, library, laboratories, canteen, allied hospital and also there is a students union.    

Silchar Polytechnic

Silchar Polytechnic

Silchar Polytechnic is located in Cachar District of Silchar in the state of Assam. The polytechnic is one of the well known and established polytechnics offering various courses for the students.

The Silchar Polytechnic gets its affiliation from the Assam University. The courses that are offered by the polytechnic for the students include Diploma courses in civil engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering as well as Electro & Telecommunication engineering.

The number of seats for each course differs that are offered to the students. Diploma courses in civil engineering have a maximum of 90 seats, Mechanical Engineering has 40 seats and Electrical Engineering gives the opportunity to 30 students for availing admission as well as Electro & Telecommunication engineering that have mere 20 seats.

Silchar Polytechnic is considered as one of the best colleges in the state of Assam for the engineering students who wish to grab knowledge about a particular field of Engineering.      

Kabindra Purkayastha

Kabindra Purkayastha

Mr. Kabindra Purkayastha was born on December 15 1931 in the Karamkhal district, Sylhet which is now a part of Bangladesh. He completed his studies and obtained a Masters Degree in Arts from Gauhati University.  

He was earlier the union minister of India. He had also served as the minister of communication during the Atal Bihari government from the year 1998 to 1999. He is also the senior leader of Assam’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

He has achieved various milestones during his course of being one of the ministers of the Indian constituency. In 1991, he was first elected to Lok Sabha from the Silchar constituency. He was re-elected in the year 1998 to Lok Sabha from the same constituency as was in 1991. From the year 1995-2001, Kabindra Purkayastha was the Vice President, B.J.P from the state of Assam. In 1998, Kabindra Purkayastha was re-elected to the 12th Lok Sabha and was also made the Union Minister of State, Communications.

In the year 2009, Kabindra Purkayastha was designated to the fifteenth Lok Sabha by giving a defeat to the strong contenders that included Indian National Congress’s Santosh Mohan Dev as well as Badruddin Ajmal who belonged to AUDF from the Silchar constituency.        

Other than achieving various positions, Kabindra Purkayastha is also a member of the various social organizations that are running with the aim of organizing the society.

He has visited various places within the country as well as abroad. Some of the countries which Kabindra Purkayastha has visited include China, America, France, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Switzerland, South Africa, Kenya and United Kingdom.

Barak Valley

Barak Valley

Barak valley is the situated in the southern part of Assam. This place is forenamed after the Barak river. Silchar is the main city of this valley. Barak Valley’s three sides are separated from the main state of Assam by the hills as well as with the Bangladesh’s international boundary.    

There are three major districts in Barak Valley namely Hailakandi, Cachar and Karimganj. Of these three districts, the headquarters of Karimganj District is considered as the valley’s second largest town. Other than being the second largest town, it is also regarded as Barak Valley’s cultural center. 

Bangle is the official language and is spoken by almost population residing in this place. Other than Bangla, the common language spoken by the people living there is the Sylheti Bangla. Bishnupriya Manipuri is the language other than Bengali which is spoken by the marginal population in Barak Valley.   

The people living in Barak Valley belong to different religions but the majority of the people living there include Hindus and Muslims. The Hindu population constitutes to be 50% of the entire population while that of the Muslims is 46%.

In the Cachar district of Barak Valley, the majority of population is composed of Hindus which is 60% while Muslims enjoy the majority of population in Karimganj which is 53%.

Aside from the Sylheti Bengalis, the Barak Valley is also the home to Manipuris, Kacharis and Hmar. The inhabitant of the main city valley that is Silchar is ruled by the Bengalis and they are the ones who owe to the heavy penetration from Bangladesh which is the neighboring country. The influence of Bengalis in Barak Valley and its districts has reduced the number of originally residing inhabitants which can include Cacharis, Rongmei Nagas, Meiteis and Meitei Pangals.              

Barak valley is basically the lower Assam and is considered to be one of the most backward parts of the country economically.    

Santosh Mohan Dev

Santosh Mohan Dev

Santosh Mohan Dev is the veteran Indian who has had hid firm hands in the political field. Born in Silchar, Assam on the 1st April 1934, Santosh Mohan Dev is the political leader and also one of the members of the Indian National Congress. Santosh Mohan Dev was first time elected in the Parliament in the year 1980. Including this, he has had seven terms as the Member of Parliament in the office.

Santosh Mohan Dev has represented the state of Assam in Silchar five times out of the seven terms that he has spent being the Member of Parliament. The remaining two times, he was elected from the state of Tripura.

He has been honored with various awards and other achievements during his political career. Santosh Mohan Dev was made the Union Cabinet’s Minister of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprise from 2005 till 2009. There are several other achievements by Santosh Mohan Dev that can be acknowledged. He was influential to set up a national university in the state of Assam (Silchar). Other than this, he has also played a major role in the freight equalization scheme during the early 1990s. It was meant for the asymmetrical charges of rail freight in the various states allover India thus he was the one to make it more competitive.

He is the third generation of his family to be called as the Congressman. Santosh Mohan Dev’s father was Independent India’s first legislators. Not only his father has a political career but his grand father was also one of the active members at the time of the struggle by the Indians for freedom. Besides Santosh Mohan Dev’s grand father was also the member of the first ever constituted Silchar Municipal Council in the year 1913. 

Other than the political field, Mr. Santosh Mohan Dev is also a professional and certified Football Referee. Not only football, he also had won the prizes for the All Assam Lawn Tennis Championship. This multi talented person is also fond of reading and gets its inspiration from the well known Bengali writers that can include Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra.       

Silchar

Silchar

Silchar is the town in the Cachar district of Assam. Silchar is stretched on the both edges of the famous river Barak. By the name of this river, there is the valley named as Barak Valley.

Although Silchar is the place which is chiefly populated by the Bengalis, this town is racing towards having a multi-ethnic society having people coming and settling here from variant parts of the country.

Silchar is the place in Assam that boasts scenic beauty with the river flowing on the eastern part of the town. Other than the scenic beauty offered by this town, Silchar is also considered as the educational hub of the country and is adorned with a Central University popularly known as the Assam University. Other than owning a national university, it also has a Medical college, The Silchar Medical College & Hospital. Also there are other popular institutes that can include National Institute of Technology, a polytechnic as well as the renowned Guru Charan College popularly known as the G.C. College.

With the excellent geographic position, Silchar is considered to be an important business point. There are people from all over the country who keep visiting Silchar for business purposes. Silchar is believed to be the imperative commercial area of Assam. It is the trade as well as processing center of variant agricultural products such as tea and rice.

The majority of the inhabitants living in the city of Silchar are Sylhethi. Sylhethis are mainly the immigrants from the Sylhet district of undivided India. Apart from Sylhethis, Silchar also has inhabitants of other communities as well as tribes which are common to Assam as a state in broad-spectrum.

In the recent years, people have been coming to the town from various neighboring smaller areas for employment as well as educational opportunities that hence make the city to be listed as one of the highly populated areas in the state of Assam.

Other than people pouring in for availing the educational and employment opportunities, there are number of tourists that keep flowing in for enjoying the numerous places that are worth visiting while touring in Assam especially Silchar. Some of the major touriost attractions that are worth watching at least once include Narsing Akhra, Sri Sri Kancha Kanti Devi, Maniharan Tunnel, Milroy Sanctuary and Bhuban Hill.   

Hailakandi

Hailakandi

Hailakandi is considered to be one of the first as well as the oldest subdivisions that can be found in Assam. On 1st June 1869, the district was represented as the civil subdivision which was then upgraded to the district in the year 1989. Having an area of 1326.10 square km, the Hailakandi also has two forest reserves namely Katakhal reserve forest and Inner line reserve forest.

Besides the reserve forest, this district also shares an inter state border on its south with Mizoram which is as long as 76km besides the inter district border with Cachar and Karimganj districts on the other side.  Almost half of the district is sheltered by the forests and the remaining half has 33% of area under cultivation. There are seventeen tea gardens in the Hailakandi district

The Hailakandi district also possesses a city named Hailakandi. Besides being the city, it is also the municipal board in the Hailakandi district in Assam. This district owns seventeen beautiful tea gardens.  

According to the census 2001, the projected population of the Hailakandi district is said to be 542872 in which there are 280513 males and 262359 females. Almost 57% of the population that is 312849 consists of Muslims while there are 223191 Hindu populations and the least population of 5424 is taken by the Christians. The density of population in the Hailakandi district is higher than that of the average density of population in the state. It is 451 per km2  while that of the state is 340 per km2.    

It consists of two towns namely Hailakandi as specified above and Lala. The Hailakandi district has 5 development blocks namely Katilcherra, Algapur, Lala, South Hailakandi and Hailakandi Development blocks. This district is a hone to numerous different communities where the people belonging to different castes and cultures live together.