Raipur Upazila

Raipur রায়পুর
Upazila
Skyline of Raipur, Bangladesh Skyline of Raipur, Bangladesh
Country	Bangladesh
Division	Chittagong Division
District	Lakshmipur District
Government
Area
• Total	201.32 km2 (77.73 sq mi)
Population  (1991)
• Total	213,573
• Density	1,061/km2 (2,750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+6 (BST)
Website	Official Map of Raipur

Raipur (Template:Lang-bn) is an Upazila of Lakshmipur District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.It's bounded by the Upazila of Faridganj, Ramgonj,Lakshmipur and on the west river Megna.

Geography

Raipur is located at 23.0333°N 90.7750°E / 23.0333; 90.7750 . It has 40618 units of house hold and total area 201.32 km². Raipur is famous for many good food such as Coconat, Supari and others BIKS.. it has a largest fishary,it is called by people number 2nd.

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Raipur has a population of 213573. Males constitute are 51% of the population, and females 49%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 100491. Raipur has an average literacy rate of 34.6% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate. no

         BIKS

Administrative

• Raipur has 10 Unions

1 No North Char Ababil
2 No North Char Bongshi
3 No Char Mohona(baburhat)BIKS
4 No Sonapur union
5 No CharPata
6 No Keroa
7 No Bamni
8 No South Char Bongshi
9 No South Char Ababil
10 No Raipur Municipality

• 49 Mauzas/Mahallas,
• and 82 villages.'

• Upazilas of Bangladesh
• Districts of Bangladesh
• Divisions of Bangladesh

Economy of Raipur

Raipur has one of the largest Textile factory in Bangladesh, but lack of maintenance and corruption it remains closed. But expertise say that this Industry has a lot of ability to reduce unemployment, as Bangladesh faces greater Problem with textile row material such as fabric, thread etc. But it is said that this factory was sold by last Government and important machineries were looted by some local political gangs. It most expected to reopen this factory and bring prosperity in the region. Raipur's industrialization is very old history, most of its local small factories are very old, they need modernization. Raipur has geographically more advantage to build industry as 11 km far located Haidergonj has river port and it is only 160 km far from see port chittagong. Huge numbers of people in Raipur are expatriate and keen to invest in Raipur but lack of authority’s cooperation they can't invest in productive sector, as result they invest their large amount of money in land business, which doesn't usually bring any prosperity or never create any Job. Authority should create new industrial park in order to attract local and foreign direct invest (FDI). Raipur has some large agro business such as fish farming, dairy farm etc. The char Lakshmi Union under Raipur upazilla is a prospective area for milk based industry.

The Raipur upazilla is a prospective development upazilla of Lakshmipur district. The people there work hard to develop their economic condition and to live a better. Now a day milk producing became one of the best affairs at No. 8 South char Lakshmi Union area. Once they were a lot of cattle farmers. The people of char kachia, Hazimare and char Lakshmi villages of this union had chosen cattle heads as one the income generative. Majority families of these villages how one or two cattle heads. The farmers of these areas supply milk to the milk vita company. They meet their family demands by producing milk side by meat.

They also take loan some time to farm cattle heads. The farmers and the people there as well will be benefited if the milk of produced in these areas are preserved. At present cattle farming became a chief means of livelihood of about 50/60 thousand habitants of fire chars areas of three villages under this union. A rare family found in char areas who don’t have 2/4 cows and Plaguing cattle. Approximately 15-20 thousand cattle are being farmed in these char areas.

These inhabitants are farming cattle heads side by side agricultural farming and fishing without any govt. or non govt. cooperation. The cattle farmers of middle char areas plays vital roll in supplying meat throughout the year and cattle heads during Eidul Azha (sacrificial Eid). At present a hundred to procure in average daily there. About 30/40 mounds of milk is being supplied to the mild vita company after fulfilling demands in various hat and bazars and urban hotels. These char areas may be a better industrial areas if the cattle farmers are supplied with required loans, training on cattle farming, supply of hybrid cows along with the local ones, timely vaccination and advice by cattle specialists during cattle diseases as well as all out cooperation. The Raipur upazilla including Char Lakshmi areas can be turned to the best milk and meat producing Zone of the country.

Raipur Municipality

Small city Raipur became Municipality 1994 since then it is trying to shape the cities view. It has good water supply system although recent days due to electricity shortage it can't be operated fully. But the city still remains sanitation problem. Raipur municipal authority faces great funding problem causes are lack of transparency and corrupted central government. Though these problems city authority declared a massive development projects which should start in near future. But expertise doubt that who will finance for such a big project’s. Inside the cities a beautiful lake lies locally called "Dakatia Gung". This lake faces some big problems like illegal building, pollution etc. It's really emergency to protect the river otherwise whole Raipur will lose its beauty.

Education in Raipur

Literacy rate in Raipur significantly low and quality of education extremely poor. Although there are many old educational institute such as Raipur L.M pilot high school, which is 100 year old, Raipur girl’s high school, Raipur marchnet academy, Raipur Government College, Ludua High school and there are some traditional religional institutes such as Raipur alia madrassa. But quality education can none of them provide. Most students face problem in English and mathematics. It is hard to believe that after completing higher secondary examination students can't speak English!!!! That's why it is extremely necessary to improve quality of education and built modern English language center, where student can learn how to speak, how to understand English. Although huge numbers of people are in abroad local people don't have internet access as result they have to use mobile phone which is extremely expensive for rural poor people. It is also necessary to open some cyber-cafe in city area also in rural area. It's well known that internet is a key of coming out of poverty.

Transportation in Raipur

Raipur is regional transportation hub. There is very good and frequent bus services connected with major cities, but poor infrastructure is main bourdon of this area. There are some good bus service provider such as " Econo service" "Dhaka express" " Jonaki service" "Jononi service" all are very competitive with one another. Recently added cng run three whiller locally called " CNG" play a big role in local transportation. Rural roads are mostly unpaved or semi paved, few of them are paved.

References

লক্ষ্মীপুর টুয়েন্টিফোর ডট কম জেলার একমাত্র অনলাইন দৈনিক www.lakshmipur24.com

See Also

• Districts of Bangladesh
• Upazilas of Bangladesh