Bilasipara
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Bilasipara is a town and a town area committee in Dhubri district
Dhubri District
Dhubri District is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters are located at Dhubri town which is situated at ~290 km from Guwahati, the state capital. This was also the headquarters of erstwhile Goalpara district which was created in 1876 by the...

  in the state of Assam
Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Geography

Bilasipara is located at 26.23°N 90.23°E. It has an average elevation of 26 metres (85 feet).

Demographics

India census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Bilasipara had a population of 31,090. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Bilasipara has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%, with male literacy of 74% and female literacy of 62%. 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

Bilasipara is moving quite well in terms of modern education as a good number of educational institutions are in this small town.

Colleges

  • Bilasipara College, Bilasipara
    Bilasipara College, Bilasipara
    Bilasipara College, Bilasipara in Dhubri district of Assam, was established in 1960 with the objective of imparting higher education to the young people of the rural and economically backward western Assam. It is the second oldest college in Dhubri district. It is now under Deficit Grant-in-Aid...

     (established 1960)
  • B. M. College (established 1991)

Politics

Bilasipara consists of two assembly constituencies: Bilasipara East and Bilasipara West, both of which are part of Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)
Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)
Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam state in north-eastern India.-Assembly segments:Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments :* Mankachar* Salmara South* Dhubri* Gauripur...

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