Char Chapori

Char Chapori (Assamese: চৰ চাপৰি) is an area of Brahmaputra river and its tributaries in the Indian state Assam constitution of flood plain sediments. According to the Assam Government record, the Char Chapori covers 3,608 km2 of the Brahmaputra basin, or 4.6% of Assam’s area. The char areas are distributed across 23 sub-divisions of 14 districts along the Brahmaputra’s course from Sadiya in the east to Dhubri in the west. An estimated 25 lakh people reside in 2,251 villages on these chars straddling 299 gaon panchayats. Some 68% of the char dwellers are below poverty line BPL.[[1]]

Demography

Major portion of Char Chapori residents are East Bengal rooted those were brought to Assam during the British era for cultivate the wetland by direct patronising the Government(then). They were being allowed to cultivate more jute on work for food scheme. Those people are anthropologically Dravidian. [[2]]

Problems

The people of Char Chapori face a certain number of problems including soil erosion, over flooding, illiteracy, high population growth and organised hate crime against them.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ http://twocircles.net/2016mar07/1457345093.html#.WEphLNJ97IU Seminar on representation of Char-Chaporis of the Brahmaputra in media
  2. ↑ http://darrang.gov.in/dept/char_dev/Char%20Dev.pdf A Brief History of Shyampur Char Development Project
  3. ↑ http://www.academia.edu/17665743/Genesis_of_nellie_massacre_and_assam_agitation Genesis of nellie massacre and assam agitation
  4. ↑ http://www.nezine.com/info/Literacy%20declining%20in%20Assam%E2%80%99s%20char%20areas Literacy declining in Assam’s char areas

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Char Chapori, Assam

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