Sitakunda Explained

Sitakunda
Native Name:সীতাকুণ্ড
Settlement Type:Town and municipality
Pushpin Map:Bangladesh
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Bangladesh
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name: Bangladesh
Subdivision Name1:Chittagong Division
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Chittagong District
Area Total Km2:28.63
Population Total:36,650
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:BST
Utc Offset:+6

Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town (Bengali: সীতাকুণ্ড শহর) is an administrative centre and the sole municipality (Paurashava) of Sitakunda Upazila in Chattogram District, located in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. Sitakunda is famous for the Chandranath Temple and Hindus temple.[1] There is a hot water spring 5 km to the north of the town.[2]

Administration

The Sitakunda town has 9 wards divided into 22 mahallas, and a population of 36,650 distributed to 6,914 units of households (average household size 5.3), including 18,662 men and 17,988 women (the male:female ratio is 104:100).[3] [4] [5] The most notable mahallas of the town are Yakubnagar, Nunachara, Mohadebpur, Sobanbagh, Bhuiyan Para, Chowdhury Para (also known as Premtala), Moulvi Para, Amirabad, Edilpur and Shibpur.[6]

Badiul Alam is the incumbent mayor of the town, he was first elected in 2015 and again in 2020 in the Sitakunda municipality election, he is a Awami League politician.

History

To reduce the population pressure on Chittagong, Sitakunda has been developed as a satellite town of the city, as well as a zone selected for industrial development along with Bhatiari.[7] The municipality is growing fast as an urban center, especially in and around Sitakunda and Mahadebpur mouzas where the Office of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer and other major Government offices, boys' high school and college are, but public services and facilities like electricity, drinking water, drainage and garbage disposal are under-provided.

Geography

The town, situated on an unbroken flat land of alluvial deposits that lies below the level of high tide, is free from tidal effects and flash floods of the area due to an embankment.[8]

Climate

Notes and References

  1. Prem Ranjan Dev, "Of Shiva Chaturdashi and Sitakunda", The Daily Star (Dhaka), 2007-02-07. Retrieved on 2009-02-02
  2. Mohammed Abdul Baten & Rashedul Tusher, "Time to move to green energy", The Daily Star (Dhaka), 2007-02-07. Retrieved on 2009-02-02
  3. Web site: Area, Population and Literacy Rate by Paurashava- 2001. Population Census Wing, BBS.. 2007-09-03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081217230450/http://www.bbs.gov.bd/dataindex/census/municip.pdf. 2008-12-17.
  4. Web site: Household and Population of Statistical Metropolitan Areas in Bangladesh - 2001. Population Census Wing, BBS.. 2007-09-03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928093643/http://www.bbs.gov.bd/dataindex/census/metropot.pdf. 2007-09-28.
  5. Book: Chowdhury, Shimul Kumar . 2012 . Sitakunda Upazila . http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sitakunda_Upazila . Islam . Sirajul . Sirajul Islam . Jamal . Ahmed A. . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh . Second . Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  6. Web site: Sitakunda Upazila: Census Results at a Glance - 2001 (Community Series). Population Census Wing, BBS. . 2007-09-03.
  7. http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/04/08/d50408190299.htm Urban mass transportation for Chittagong - I
  8. http://www.udd-bd.org/summery.html Land Use Plan of Sitakunda Paurashava