CHAIRPERSON'S MESSAGE

Welcome to Kokrajhar, the City of Peace…

 Kokrajhar town being the Headquarter of Kokrajhar district as well as the capital of Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) is growing in size and population rapidly. It is very important to usher an era of planned development. Any development must enhance the role of the town in the region. In the year 1956 Kokrajhar town committee was formed to look after the various civic needs of the growing community and it got the status of Municipal Board in the Year 1970. Simultaneously with the efforts of the Town and Country Planning Department there has resulted in a manifold rise in its population and development. The Kokrajhar Development Authority was established in the year 2008 for taking care of various development activities. Kokrajhar Municipal area consists of 10 wards. The proposal of additional more wards are in the process Besides being an administrative centre, Kokrajhar is also important for trade and commerce. Kokrajhar contains many offices as the capital of BTR and the head quarter of Kokrajhar district like the Secretariat of BTC, offices of Directors as Council Head of Departments for different line departments. The Kokrajhar town has many offices and educational institutions like Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar Government College, Bineswar Brahma Engineering College, Bodoland University, telephone exchange, 200 bedded Civil Hospital, B T. College, General Colleges, I.T.I and other facilities required for capital and the district Head Quarter town. The population density of Municipality area is 3784 p/sq.km. in 2001 and 4144 p/sq.km. in 2011 while the population density of whole Kokrajhar district is 665 p/sq.km. in 2001 and 793 p/sq.km. The socio economic base and work areas establishments are developedproperly in demarcated land areas with beautiful front side appearances of the establishments within the town or city. All the trade and commercial activities are carried out within the properly developed commercial house buildings that are supported and developed by the BTR Government. Kokrajhar-Karigaon Road (State National Highway) is connected to National Highway No.31C at Karigaon which is 19km North from the town and Kokrajhar-Bahalpur Road connects National Highway No. 37 at Bahalpur which is 24.5km. The town has great advantage of rail communication by means of Broad Gauge (B.G.) lines. The railways line passes through the heart of the town and make connection of Kokrajhar with Guwahati and Upper Assam on the east and Dhubri and other parts of the country on the West. The railways have their own housing colonies. After becoming BG lines, it has increased the commercial activities of the town and helped to a large extent for the development of Kokrajhar town.

 With warm regards

Smt.  Pratibha Brahma, Chairperson