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Assam has four oil refineries located at Guwahati, Digboi, Numaligarh and Bongaigaon with a total capacity of 7 million tonnes per year. The Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (BRPL) is the only S&P CNX 500 conglomerate with a corporate office in Assam. [ 20 ]
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.
The 14th Legislative Assembly of Assam constituted after the 2016 Assam Legislative Assembly elections which were concluded in April 2016, with the results being declared on 19 May 2016. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Dispur , the capital of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies.
Bhuragaon Revenue Circle is a sub-district administrative unit in the state of Assam, India. It is located in the district of Morigaon and is one of the six revenue circles in the district. [ 1 ] The circle's headquarter is located in the town of Bhuragaon .
Former Advocate General of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Senior advocate of Gauhati High Court. Member of AICC. Anwaruddin Choudhury, first Divisional Commissioner of Barak Valley when it was separated from Hilll Areas in 2015-16. Second D.Sc degree holder from Gauhati University. Popularly known as 'Birdman of Assam'.
In 1874, Assam was constituted as a Chief Commissioner's province with the seat of the government in Shillong, the erstwhile capital of Assam, which is now in Meghalaya.To better administer the six districts of Goalpara, Kamrup, Sonitpur, Nagaon (formerly, Nowgong), Sivasagar (formerly, Sibsagar) and Lakhimpur, (the districts in the Brahmaputra valley, also called Assam Valley), the Judge of ...
On 28 January 1894, there was a peasant's uprising against the increased land revenue by the British Raj in Patharighat, a village in Darrang district. In the British response that followed, 140 peasants belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities died from bullet wounds and another 150 were injured. [6] [7]