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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 .
However, between April 2020 and December 2020, all executive and legislative functions were exercised by a principal secretary acting on behalf of the Governor of Assam. [11] In April 2020, Siddharth Singh has been appointed as the Principal Secretary of Bodoland Territorial Council, [ 12 ] while Rajesh Prasad was posted as the administrator.
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 Assam Assembly is elected by universal adult suffrage for a period of five years. The Chief Minister is assisted by a Council of Ministers that he nominates, the size of which is restricted. In 2021, the National Democratic Alliance won a majority of seats in the legislature, with 75 seats, followed by Congress with 29 seats and AIUDF with 16.
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.
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 ...
Originally a land-holding clerk, the talati is now a paid, government-appointed official. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A patil ( patel in Gujarat) is an outsider who assists the talati in collecting revenue. It has been alleged that records maintained by the talati do not reflect actual positions, because the talati did not take into account the tribal custom ...
The term Mouzadar refers to a person who takes tax of a mouza (revenue collection unit). Historically, they were influential hereditary aristocratic nobility figures in Assam's socio-political landscape during the feudal era during the Kamarupa Kingdom to the Ahom Dynasty; similar to small kings.