Silchar | |
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City | |
     Clockwise from top: Nazirpatty, Silchar city; Silchar Airport, NIT Silchar, Goldighi Mall, Silchar railway station | |
| Nickname: The Island of Peace & The City of Love | |
  Silchar Location in Assam  Silchar Silchar (India) | |
| Coordinates: 24°49′N 92°48′E / 24.82°N 92.8°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Assam |
| District | Cachar |
| Region | Barak Valley |
| No. Of Wards | 42 |
| Established | 1838 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal corporation |
| • Body | Silchar Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Niharendra Narayan Tagore, BJP |
| • MLA | Dipayan Chakraborty, BJP |
| • MP | Parimal Suklabaidya, BJP |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Rohan Kumar Jha, IAS |
| Area | |
• City | 69.49 km2 (26.83 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 22 m (72 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• City | 172,830 |
| • Density | 8,524/km2 (22,080/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 228,985[1] |
| Demonym | Silcharian |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 788001-788032 & 788118 |
| Telephone code | +91 (0) 3842 |
| Vehicle registration | AS-11 |
| Sex Ratio | 943 ♀️/ 1000 ♂️ |
| Climate | Cwa |
| Official language | Bengali |
| Associate official language | Meitei (Manipuri) |
| Literacy Rate | 91.05%[1] |
| Lok Sabha Constituency | Silchar |
| Vidhan Sabha Constituency | Silchar |
| Website | www |
Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India.[2] It is second largest city of Assam after Guwahati in terms of area, population and GDP.[3] It is also administrative capital of Barak Valley division.[4][5] It is located 343 kilometres (213 mi; 185 nmi) south east of Guwahati.[6] It was founded by Captain Thomas Fisher in 1832 when he shifted the headquarters of Cachar to Janiganj in Silchar.[7] It earned the moniker "Island of Peace" from Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.[8] Silchar is the site of the world's first polo club and the first competitive polo match.[9][10] In 1985, an Air India flight from Kolkata to Silchar became the world's first all-women crew flight.[11] Silchar was a tea town and Cachar club was the meeting point for tea planters.
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- ^ Desk, Sentinel Digital (20 October 2021). "Silchar, the Second Largest City of Assam: Know All About the City - Sentinelassam". www.sentinelassam.com.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Government of Assam - Barak Valley Division". hbvdassam.gov.in. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- ^ "Silchar". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ "Silchar Tourism: Places To Visit, Attractions, Villages/Tehsils in Silchar". www.delhimetrotimes.in. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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:16was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "APCC member for nomination of Gaurav Gogoi from Barak Valley". The Sentinel, Assam. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ^ Bahl, Ananya (5 January 2019). "Two millennia after the first Manipuri polo match, a women's team is ushering in a quiet revolution". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Barak Valley: Assam's appendix". The Statesman. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Air India Operates All-Women Crew Flightte From Kolkata". NDTV.com. Retrieved 19 October 2020.