Kalai Upazila

Kalai (Bengali: কালাই) is an upazila of Joypurhat District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.[1]

Kalai
কালাই
Upazila
Kalai is located in Bangladesh
Kalai
Kalai
Location in Bangladesh
Coordinates: 25°3.5′N 89°11′E
Country Bangladesh
DivisionRajshahi Division
DistrictJoypurhat District
Area
 • Total166.3 km2 (64.2 sq mi)
Population
 (1991)
 • Total114,183
 • Density687/km2 (1,780/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (BST)

Geography

Kalai is located at 25.0583°N 89.1833°E / 25.0583; 89.1833. It has 23504 households and total area 166.3 km2.

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Kalai has a population of 114183. Males constitute 50.86% of the population, and females 49.14%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 60864. Kalai has an average literacy rate of 23.5% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.[2]

Administration

Kalai Upazila is divided into Kalai Municipality and five union parishads: Ahammedabad, Matrai, Punot, Udaipur, and Zindarpur. The union parishads are subdivided into 109 mauzas and 148 villages.[3]

Kalai Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 34 mahallas.[3]

Education

The famous educational institutions of this Upazila are:

  • Kalai Degree College
  • Govt. Kalai Women's Degree College
  • Hatior Bahumukhi Fazil Madrasah
  • Kalai M.U. Government High School
  • Kalai Girls' High School
  • Omar Kindergarten School
  • Punat High School
  • Punat Girls' High School
  • Shanti Nagar Adarsha High School

See also

References
  1. Shahnaz Parveen (2012), "Kalai Upazila", in Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
  2. "Population Census Wing, BBS". Archived from the original on 27 March 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2006.
  3. "District Statistics 2011: Joypurhat" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.


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