- Sitakunda
Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town, ( _bn. সীতাকুন্ড শহর) is an administrative center and the sole municipality ("Pourashabha") of
Sitakunda Upazila .Administration
The 28.63 km²cite web| accessdate = September 03 | accessyear = 2007 | url = http://www.bbs.gov.bd/dataindex/census/municip.pdf | title = Area, Population and Literacy Rate by Paurashava- 2001| publisher= Population Census Wing, BBS.] Sitakunda Town has 9 wards divided into 22 mahallas, and a population of 36,650 distributed to 6,914 units of households (average household size 5.3), including 18,662 men and 17,988 women (Male:Female ratio 104:100).cite web| accessdate = September 03 | accessyear = 2007 | url = http://www.bbs.gov.bd/dataindex/census/metropot.pdf | title = Household and Population of Statistical Metropolitan Areas in Bangladesh - 2001| publisher= Population Census Wing, BBS.] [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/S_0420.htm Sitakunda] ,
Banglapedia : The National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh,Asiatic Society of Bangladesh,Dhaka , "Retrieved:2007-08-24 "] The most notable mahallas of the town are Yakubnagar, Nunachara, Mohadebpur, Sobanbagh, Bhuiyan Para, Chowdhury Para (also known as Premtala), Moulvi Para, Amirabad, Edilpur and Shibpur.cite web| accessdate = September 03 | accessyear = 2007 | url = http://www.bbs.gov.bd/com_series/chit_div/ctg_u_ag.pdf | title = Sitakunda Upazila: Census Results at a Glance - 2001 (Community Series)| publisher= Population Census Wing, BBS.]History
To reduce the population pressure on Chittagong, Sitakunda has been developed as a
satellite town of the city, as well as a zone selected for industrial development along with Bhatiari. [http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/04/08/d50408190299.htm Urban mass transportation for Chittagong - I] , Imon Chowdhooree and Kanu Kumar Das, The Daily Star, Urban Page, 2005-04-08; "retrieved:2007-09-18 "] The municipality is growing fast as an urban center, especially in and around Sitakunda and Mahadebpur mouzas where the Office of theUpazila Nirbahi Officer and other major Government offices, boys' high school and college are located, but public services and facilities like electricity, drinking water, drainage and garbage disposal are still under-provided.Geography
The town, situated on an unbroken flat land of alluvial deposits that lies below the level of high tide, is free from tidal effects and flash floods of the area due to an embankment. [http://www.udd-bd.org/summery.html Land Use Plan of Sitakunda Paurashava] ; Urban Development Directorate, Government of Bangladesh, 2006; "Retrieved:
2007-08-28 "]References
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