Cooch Behar, or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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21 Facts About Cooch Behar
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Cooch Behar is the only planned city in the North Bengal region with remnants of royal heritage.
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Name Cooch Behar is derived from two words—Cooch, a corrupted form of the word Koch, the name of the Koch or Rajbongshi tribes, and the word behar is derived from vihara.
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Cooch Behar formed part of the Kamarupa Kingdom of Assam from the 4th to the 12th.
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However, Mir Jumla, the subedar of Bengal under the Mughal emperor Aurangazeb, attacked Cooch Behar and conquered the territory, meeting almost no resistance.
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Cooch Behar is in the foothills of Eastern Himalayas, at in the North of West Bengal.
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Cooch Behar is a flat region with a slight southeastern slope along which the main rivers of the district flow.
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Cooch Behar Municipality is responsible for the civic administration of the town.
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Cooch Behar town comes under the jurisdiction of the district police ; the Superintendent of Police oversees security and matters pertaining to law and order.
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Cooch Behar is a well-planned town, and the municipality is responsible for providing basic services, such as potable water and sanitation.
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Health services in Cooch Behar include a government-owned District Hospital, a Regional Cancer Centre, and private nursing homes.
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Utility services provided in Cooch Behar are considered one of the best government utility services of West Bengal though the city gets totally flooded during heavy rains nowadays due to the problems of the drainage system.
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Cooch Behar is home to a number of district-level and divisional-level offices and has a large government-employee workforce.
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Cooch Behar has been witnessing radical changes, along with rapid development in segments like industry, real estate, and information technology firms, and education, since the advent of the twenty-first century.
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Cooch Behar, with its people, culture, and the river Torsha was a recurrent theme in his novels.
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Cooch Behar is very well connected by road with neighboring areas and other cities of West Bengal and the rest of the country.
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Cooch Behar is a major roadway junction after Siliguri towards Northeast India and Bangladesh.
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Cooch Behar is headquarters of the North Bengal State Transport Corporation, which runs regular bus service to places in West Bengal, Assam, and Bihar.
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Cooch Behar Airport has limited modern passenger facilities but no airlines operate here.
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In 1950, when the state of Cooch Behar was merged into the Union of India, the governance was passed to Government of West Bengal.
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