karbi anglong

Karbi Anglong literally means Karbi Hills, lies in the middle of Assam state, sandwiched between the Brahmaputra valley in the North and the Barak valley in the South. Essentially a hill area, , its low hills link the Meghalaya state on the western side and the state of Nagaland on the eastern flank.
The dominant tribes are the Karbis who mostly live in the hills being dependent on slash and burn cultivation. The 10, 434 Sq. Km area holds a population of 880 thousand (as projected for 2005) whose decadal growth rate stands at 22.72%, with an average population of 283 persons per village. The density of population is 78 per Sq. Km.
In spite of heavy influx from the over populated mainland, he indigenous tribes constitute 55.69% of the population. Only 11.30% of the population live in the urban areas while the rest live in 2563 villages in the rural areas.
Increasing by 13.26% in the last decade, the total literacy rate in the district today stands at 57.70% The literacy rate in the urban area is 83.39% and in the rural areas, it is 45.48%.
In terms of human resources the main workers constitute 28.24% of the total population, of which 59.26% are cultivators. The participation rate of female workers is 37.15%.
The 1316.6 mm annual rainfall sustains forest are which is 30.06% of the total land area. The net sown area is 11.82% of the total land area of which 71.71% comes under food grains. 7.35% of the total net sown area is irrigated and fertilizer is utilized in as low as 3.03% of the total sown area.
The GDP at current prices (1997-98) stands at Rs. 59333 lakhs and the per capita GDP works out at Rs. 7911. The share of the primary sector is 49%, the secondary sector 17.3% and the tertiary sector is 33.7%. It is interesting to note that non-tribal immigrants dominate the tertiary sector while agro-based activities dominate the primary sector. There are 7 banks for 100, 000 people where the per capita bank deposit is Rs. 2014; the per capita bank credit is Rs. 384 with a credit-deposit ratio of 19.1%.
Karbi Anglong has only 1 (one) vehicle per Sq. Km and a total road length of 35.5 km per 100 Sq. Km area. It has 24 registered factories and 289 registered small scale industrial unit.
In the context of electrification, only six towns are electrified and of the 2563 villages, just 1039 villages (40.53% of the villages) are electrified. Therefore, no wonder, in the 3 (three) employment exchanges in the area there are only 18, 671 registered educated unemployed youths. Since registration does not guarantee absorption in the job market, the number of registered unemployed far exceeds the registered.
In the Health sector, there are 57.3 beds for a population of 100, 000 in 23 health institutions for the like number of people. This includes the only 2 (two) full-fledged hospitals in the area, the rest being just health centres where virtually there are no doctors on duty. The area records the highest incidence of malaria PF cases in the State and the mortality rate is quite high.
In the Education sector, for 10 Sq Km geographical area, on an average, there are 0.6 Primary Schools, 0.2 Middle Level Schools and 0.2 High Schools which have an average of 4.6, 5.6 and 9.2 number of teachers per school respectively.
(Excerpts from the booklet‑ ‘Karbi Anglong and North Cachar, The Bleeding Hills. Published by Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation, Office of the Karbi Language Foundation, Rongchedon, Diphu. 2008)

BASIC INFORMATION OF THE KARBI ANGLONG:
TOPOGRAPHY
A/RIVERS:
There are numerous rivers with tributaries in this district among them, the most important are
1. Kopili River 2. Amreng River 3. Borapani River
4. Kolioni River 5. Dhansuri River 6. Dikharu River
7. Nambor River 8. Deopani River 9. Jomuna River
10. Patradisha River 11. Longnit River 12. Doigrung River
13. Diplu River
B. FORESTS:
The forest are covered is about 4,922.019 sq. km with 14 Nos. State R. F. and 17 Nos. District Council R. F. in the district.

B. HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PEAK:
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