Uttara West Thana

Uttara West Thana
Thana
Country Bangladesh
DivisionsDhaka Division
DistrictsDhaka District
Elevation
[1]
23 m (75 ft)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total
180,510
Time zoneUTC+6 (BST)
Post Code
1230[3]
Area code02[4]

Uttara West Thana (Bengali: উত্তরা পশ্চিম থানা) is a thana of Bangladesh situated in Sector 11 of Uttara, Dhaka.[5]

This thana was established on 4 September 2012 to decrease the responsibility of former Uttara Thana (present name Uttara East Thana).[6]

Its total area is 8 square kilometres (3.1 sq mi). This thana is formed by Abdullahpur, Bawnia, Kamarpara, Batulia, Roashdia and Sector 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 of the town.[7]

After establishment of the new thana, the government rented a building as there was no land to construct a police station building for the area. But as the building is located inside a residential area of the thana, the new police station building is inadequate, causing difficulties in the operation of the police station. Besides, traffic jams are created around the police station building. For this, the Uttara Welfare Society protested in 2022 demanding the construction of a new building on 30 katha land in Sonargaon Janapath and shifting it there. Mohammad Habib Hasan, Jatiya Sangsad member of Dhaka-18 constituency, sent a DO letter to the then Capital Development Authority chairman Anisur Rahman Miah on 19 October 2022, recommending in favor of the demand.[8]

  1. ^ "Geographic coordinates of Dhaka, Bangladesh". DATEANDTIME.INFO. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  2. ^ National Report (PDF). Population and Housing Census 2022. Vol. 1. Dhaka: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. November 2023. p. 386. ISBN 978-9844752016.
  3. ^ "Bangladesh Postal Code". Dhaka: Bangladesh Postal Department under the Department of Posts and Telecommunications of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. 19 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Bangladesh Area Code". China: Chahaoba.com. 18 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Uttara West Thana starts journey". BD News 24 (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  6. ^ "Uttara gets new police station". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  7. ^ "Uttara has two thanas now". Kaler Kanotho (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  8. ^ "উত্তরা পশ্চিম থানা ভবনের জন্য জমি বরাদ্দের দাবিতে মানবন্ধন". Bangladesh Journal (in Bengali). 22 October 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2024.