North East India in Details

Assam a state in the northeast region of India is a unique geographical entity presenting a rich physical and cultural diversity. The state's natural landscape is changing fast with the growth of industrialization and urbanization and especially the ever-increasing inflow of people from within and outside the country.

A ssam, situated in the North-Eastern frontier of the Indian Republic, and long known as the Cinderella State of India, came into prominence during World War II when Japanese troops invaded India through Burma and set foot on the Indian soil at Kohima. Till then the world knew little about her and hardly took any interest in knowing the people that inhabit this State. Simple and unsophisticated by nature, the Assamese people have always evinced keen interest in any matter that affects them and are always sincere in whatever they do. So, when the call for sacrifice in the freedom’s struggle of 1942 reached their ears, even village women- from sixteen to sixty – jumped headlong into the thick of the battle and laid down their lives for the freedom of their country.   Moniram Dewan The names of Bhogeswari Phookanani and Kanaklata will ever remain written in letters of gold in the history of Assam’s part in the freedom struggle. Assam’s contribution to the freedom struggle w...

Assam its vast network of rivers is prone to natural disasters like floods and erosion which has a negative impact on the overall development of the state. The Brahmaputra and Barak River with more than 50 numbers of tributaries feeding them, cause the flood devastation in the monsoon period each year.  The flood and erosion problem of Assam is singularly different from other states so far as extent and duration of flooding and magnitude of erosion is concerned and is probably the most acute and unique in the country.  The flood prone area of the state as assessed by the Rastriya Barh Ayog (RBA) is 31.05 Lakh Hectares against the total area of state 78.523 Lakh Hectares i.e. about. 39.58 % of the total land area of Assam.  This is about 9.40% of total flood prone area of the country. Records show that average annual area affected by flood is 9.31 Lakh Hectares. The flood prone area of the country as a whole stands at about 10.2 % of the total area of the coun...

Assam with its vast network of rivers is prone to natural disasters like flood and erosion which has a negative impact on the overall development of the state .  The Brahmaputra and Barak River with more than 50 numbers of tributaries feeding them, causes the flood devastation in the monsoon period each year. The flood and erosion problem of Assam is singularly different from other states so far as extent and duration of flooding and magnitude of erosion is concerned and is probably the most acute and unique in the country.  The flood-prone area of the state as assessed by the Rashtriya Barh Ayog (RBA) is 31.05 Lakh Hectares against the total area of state 78.523 Lakh Hectares i.e. about. 39.58 % of the total land area of Assam. This is about 9.40% of total flood prone area of the country. Records show that average annual area affected by flood is 9.31 Lakh Hectares. The flood prone area of the country as a whole stands at about 10.2 % of the total area of the country, but fl...

Assam, the gateway to the Northeast India located in the north-eastern part of the country and is bounded to the north by the kingdom of Bhutan and the state of Arunachal Pradesh, to the east by the states of Nagaland and Manipur, to the south by the states of Mizoram and Tripura, and to the west by Bangladesh and the states of Meghalaya and West Bengal.