Dasmina Upazila

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Dasmina Upazila
Dasmina
Division_name - District	Barisal Division - Patuakhali District
Coordinates	22.2833° N 90.5903° E
Area	351.74 km²
Time zone	BST (UTC+6)
Population (1991) - Density	106539 - 303/km²
Maplink: Official Map of the Dasmina Upazila

Dasmina (Bengali: দশমিনা ) is an Upazila of Patuakhali District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 Administrative
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Geography

Dasmina is located at 22.2833° N 90.5903° E . It has 19,863 units of house hold and total area 351.74 km².

[edit] Demographics

As of 1991 Bangladesh census^[1], Dasmina has a population of 106,539. Males constitute 49.5% of the population, and females 50.5%. This Upazila's eighteen and older population is 52,137. Dasmina has an average literacy rate of 29.5% (7+ years), and a national average of 32.4%. ^[2]

The upazila have produced few promising citizen of the country like Abu Taher (USA), Ahamed Amin Abdullah (In [Bangladesh Navy]^{www.bangladeshnavy.org}) , Sohel Ahmed (Japan) , Ahmed Ibrahim Orbil and Late Abdul Baten Talukder among many others.

[edit] Administrative

Dasmina has 6 Unions/Wards, 51 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 55 villages. The names of the Unions are Dashmina, Alipura, Banshbaria, Rono Gopaldi, Bohorampur and Betagi Shankipur. The Upazila Headquarters is situated in Dashmina Sadar. It is situated on the Bank of the river Bura Gouranga. It is a very old place. At present it holds One College, one Boys' High School, One Girls' School, One Alia Madrasa and a number of Government and Non Government Primary School.

It is a place where there are numbers of NGOs working all over. Grameen Bank was the pioneer in this process perhaps and now has lots of organisation working to develop the infrastructers of the Upazila.

It has many cultural and sports Club. The "DIGANTO" is the most famous among them.