Netrokona District

Netrokona is a one of them district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division.Netrokona District is situated in the northern part of Bangladesh. Near the Himalayan border. Historically Netrakona is the main center point of Mymensingh Githika as the view of Mahua Malua who lived there and created their performances. Netrokona Sadar Upazila has an area of 340.35 km² and it is surrounded by Durgapur and Kalmakanda upazilas on the north side, Kendua and Gauripur upazilas on the south side, Barhatta and Atpara upazilas on the east side, Purbadhala upazila on the west. Thereare four rivers in Netrokona. They are Kangsha, Dhala, Magra, and Teorkhali.

Netrokona Pouroshaba (Town of Netrokona) consists of 9 wards and 33 mahallas. It is a municipal town with an area of 13.63 km². The town has a population of 53,853; male 51.22%, female 48.78%. The density of population is 3,951 per km². Literacy rate among the town people is 54.2%. Administration Netrokona Sadar thana was established in 1874 and was turned into an upazila in 1983. The upazila consists of 13 union parishads, 306 mouzas and 344 villages.

Administration Netrokona subdivision was established in 1882 and was turned into a district in 1984. The district consists of 10 upazilas, 4 municipalities, 36 wards, 102 mahallas, 85 union parishads and 2281 villages. The upazilas are atpara, barhatta, durgapur, khaliajuri, kalmakanda, kendua, madan, mohanganj, netrokona sadar and purbadhala; municipalities are Barhatta, Durgapur, Mohanganj and Netrokona Sadar.

  

Durgapur, near the Indo-Bangla border, is a good tourist spot. The Garo Pahar is situated there and people observe time-honored traditions. People living in Netrakona’s mountains are the ancestors of the Upo Jatis. The only Up-Zati cultural academi in the country is there. Khaliyajuri is a place dominated by waterways; the small villages are organised into “islands” and radio communications are poor.

About Susang Durgapur

Tourist Spot

Susang Durgapur Hills

Susang Durgapur is 182 km from Dhaka, a real natural beauty of forest river & hills area where the Garos and other tribal live. You can also enjoy boating in the river. Wild Elephant some times comes from forest. But going to Susang Durgapur is a real troublesome for the tourists due to the location and communication problem in this area. It is advisable only to go there in winter season. Susang Hills southern continuation of Garo Hills of western Meghalaya (India) which extends from Kuri beel in the west to the Bhugi river in the east occupying the northern border of greater Mymensingh district. Being the foothills of Garo Hills, Susang Hills are represented by elongated, domal hillocks and tilas separated by valleys formed by the rivers and streams originating from Garo Hills. Only the southern fringes of the highly elevated shillong massif consisting of Garo Hills, Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills form a narrow strip of hills and hillocks in Bangladesh territory. The great Dauki fault with a throw of about 18 km has dissected these foothills from the Meghalaya plateau. Someshwari is the major river originating from Garo Hills that flows along Bijoypur and Durgapur and finally joins the kangsa in the south. Structurally, the area forms the southern flank of an anticlinal fold with sub-latitudinal axial trend (NW-SE) in the Garo Hills. They are represented by block faulted sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age and slopes southwards plunging below the Recent piedmont plain.

Durgapur Upazila MAP

In the Susang Hills of Bangladesh only Dupi Tila and Dihing sequences are exposed. Kaolinitic white clay deposits of Bijoypur (Netrokona district) occur in Dupi Tila Formation in lenses alternating with sandstones. Susang Hills are covered with thick wild vegetation with bamboo thickets and Garjan, Shal and Teak trees. Garo and Hajong tribal people reside in these hills. Here, the highest elevation is 42m MSL (mean sea level) while the valleys are about 13m MSL. In Sylhet, such hillocks are widely known as Tilas. Along the border belt of Sunamganj district, similar low hillocks exist in Takerghat area. They are represented by Palaeogene sediments of Tura Sandstones and Sylhet Limestone formations with maximum elevation of 22m. Further east along the border belt of Sylhet district a series of hills stretch from Jaflong to the border with Cachar, India, in the east.