23 Facts About Silchar

Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India.

Silchar is the site of the world's first polo club and the first competitive polo match.

Silchar was a tea town and Cachar club was the meeting point for tea planters.

Since Silchar was only founded after the introduction of the British in 1832, the pre-colonial history of Silchar can be approximated through the history of the region and nearby areas.

Cachar district, whose headquarters is in Silchar, was ruled by the Tippera dynasty in the 13th century.

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The earliest mention of Silchar was in 1835 in a report by R B Pamberton, and since then it was mentioned in British official documents.

Silchar was founded as the administrative headquarters of Cachar around the Janiganj-Sadarghat area of the town.

Silchar prepared a blueprint for the planned development of Silchar, paved the roads, and supervised the construction of office buildings, residential quarters, circuit house and the Deputy Commissioner's office.

Silchar got its very first body for self governance In 1882, when a Town Committee was established under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1876.

Keating Library, the first library in Silchar, was established in 1876 and was renamed to Arun Chanda Granthagar after Independence.

In 1891, the town became a municipality and in 1899 the Assam-Bengal railways reached Silchar, providing easier access to the Chittagong sea port.

Silchar witnessed major flooding in June 1929 because of incessant rains and flooding of river Barak.

Apart from the refugees from East Pakistan, Silchar saw a lot of migration from neighbouring states in Northeast due to political disturbances which added to the population growth.

Silchar saw one of the uprisings in favor of the Bengali language.

The municipal history of Silchar goes back to 1865 when the town was made a municipality under the Bengal District Town Improvement Act, 1864.

In January 1882, Silchar got a Town Committee under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1876.

Silchar is in Zone V on the Seismic Zonation Map and has witnessed major earthquakes.

Silchar has a borderline tropical monsoon climate slightly too hot in the “winter” or “cool” season to qualify as a humid subtropical climate.

Silchar is home to the main campus of Assam University, a central university that imparts education in both the general and the professional streams.

Silchar has been selected as one of the towns for the construction of 51 low-cost airports across the country.

Silchar Airport is the 2nd busiest airport in Assam and 4th busiest in North east after Guwahati, Agartala and Imphal and handles approximately 200,000 PAX yearly.

In December 1985, Air India operated the first all-woman crew flight in the world from Kolkata to Silchar which was commanded by Captain Saudamini Deshmukh on a Fokker F-27 Friendship aircraft.

The current member of Parliament from Silchar is Dr Rajdeep Roy of the BJP and current MLA is Dipayan Chakraborty of the BJP.