Full District Information Of Munsiganj

Munsiganj is one of the districts of Dhaka Division. Today I want to give you some information about Munsiganj.

Here is the information in Brief- 

Established :- 1984

Volume :- 955 square Km

Upazella :- 6

Union :- 67

Village :- 970

Main river :- Padma, Megnum, Dholessori etc.

Historical Places :- Idrakpur Durgo, Sonakanda Durgo etc.

Now the Details-

Munshiganj Town Information: This town is the district headquarters of Munshiganj district. It consists of 9 wards and 42 mahallas.The area of the town is 14.17 sq km with a population 52071. Among the male are 51.62% and female 48.38%. Literacy rate among the town people is 49.3%.

Major Educational institutions: There are 1 primary training institute and 3 technical training centres. Beside these there are also 16 colleges, 82 high schools and many schools in this district.

Main exports: Potato, banana, paddy, pathal, jute, betel leaf, sweet pumpkin, vegetables, milk, milk food, sack, cotton yarn, copper utensil, bamboo and cane materials.

Places that you like:

Munshigonj Upazila: Idrakpur Fort (1660), Panditer vita (birth place of Atisha Dipankar Srijnan) at Bajrayogini, Baba Adam’s Mosque, Dighi of Raja Haris chandra, home stead of Raja Ballal Sena, home stead of Raja Sreenath at Rampal, Rampal Dighi, Kodal Dhoar Dighi, marble statue of Ashutosh Ganguly inside the library room of Haraganga College. And The sixth Bangladesh-China friendship bridge over the river Dhaleswari.

Sreenagar Upazila: Shyamsiddhi Math, Hasara Dargah, Sholaghar Math, Bhagyakul Rajbari, residence of Jagadis Chandra Basu at Radhikhal and Jora Math at Sonarang.
Tongibari Upazila: Kalibari, Taltala Pancha-shikhara Mahadeva Temple, Talukdarbari Mosque at Kusumpur, Tajpur Mosque, Patharghata Mosque, Kazishal Mosque, Pulghata Bridge and Panch Pir Dargah.

Sirajdikhan Upazila: A single domed mosque at Kusumpur (Talukdar-bari Mosque, Mughal period), Tajpur Mosque, Patharghata Mosque, Qazishal Mosque, Pulghata Bridge, math at village Fegnasar, math at the house of Kankata De at village Tajpur and Panchasikhar Mahadeva Mandir (temple) at Taltala.
Many Archaeological heritages are missing due to devastating erosion of river Padma.

Film Director And Producer Chashi Nazrul Islam Self-History

Early life and career
Islam was born on 23 October 1941 at Shomoshpur village in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj to Mosleh Uddin Khan and Shayesta Khanom. He was the eldest among four brothers and three sisters. His father was a service holder at Jamshedpur, India. At the age of 16, his father died. He got a job at the office of his uncle, the then auditor general of Pakistan. He was a member of the theatre organisation Krishti Sangha.

After he got laid off from that job, he started to perform on radio programs in 1965. He directed and voiced popular radio dramas like Ramer Sumoti (1965), Socrates (1966), and Sokhina Birongona (1974). Chashi started his career in visual media in 1964 when he had the opportunity to work on television program through audition. He worked as assistant director on the film Dui Digonto, directed by Obaidur Rahman. Later he assisted Fateh Lohani.

He participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. After Bangladesh achieved independence, he made the first film on the subject of the liberation war, Ora Egaro Jon. His last movies were Antaranga Released in 2015 & Bhul jodi Hoi 2015, where he Launched Alisha Pradhan in Dhallywood but ironically he could be part of the release.

Awards

Year	Award Title	Category	Film
2009	Bachsas Awards	Life Time Achievement
2005	International Kalakar Award	Best Director	–
2005	BCRA Award	Best Director	–
2004	Ekushey Padak	Best Director	-
2003	Binodan Bichitra Award	Best Director	–
2003	Indo-Bangla Kala Music Award	Zahir Raihan Lifetime Achievement Award	-
2003	Trab Award		–
2003	Genesis Nazrul Honorary Award		–
2003	CJFB Award	Best Director	–
1997	National Film Awards	Best Director	Hangor Nodi Grenade
1997	Tarokalok Award		-
1995	Bangladesh Social Welfare Award
1995	Zahir Raihan Gold Medal
1995	Jagadish Chandra Basu Gold Medal
1989	Bangladesh Film Critics Award	Best Director	Biraha Byatha
1989	Cine Directorial Social Welfare Award
1989	Bangladesh National Youth Organisation Federation Award
1988	Sher-e-Bangla Memorial Award
1987	National Film Awards	Best Director	Shuvoda
1985	Cine Directorial Associates
1974	Bachsas Awards	Best Director	Songram

Death

At 73 Islam died of liver cancer at the Labaid Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 11, 2015.

Local Weather Conditions Of Munshiganj District

Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 30°C / 87 °F

Morning Temperature	23°C / 74 °F
Evening Temperature	29°C / 84 °F
Night Temperature	25°C / 77 °F
Chance of rainfall	0%
Air Humidity	83%
Air Pressure	1011.3 hPa
Wind Speed	Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from North-East
Cloud Conditions	Few clouds, covering 24% of sky
General Conditions	Light rain Day: 32°C (90 °F) Night: 26°C (79 °F) Moderate rain, light breeze, clear sky. Day: 32°C (89 °F) Night: 27°C (81 °F) Moderate rain, light breeze, scattered clouds.

Places of Interest, district Munshiganj

Under the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh, there are 17 districts available, and Munshiganj is one of them. Also this district is just adjacent to the Capital City Dhaka. Long time back this district was renowned as "Bikrampur" or "Vikrampur". Now a days, people of that places still feel proud to call them from "Bikrampur".

Popular locations for visit:

If you are planning to visit the Munshiganj district, you can check the "places of interest", or "must see" items from the linkn  http://icwow.blogspot.com/search/label/munshiganj. Also if you visited any other places from Munshiganj, that is not listed at my link, that case you caadd that here as comment.

How to reach:

There are several transport is available from Dhaka to Munshiganj. The best two bus services are "Nayan Paribahan" and "Dhaka Transport", both of the buses used to start from "Gulistan" of dhaka. It will cost you 30-40 taka, and will require 1 hrs to 2 hrs bus journey depending upon the road traffic. Also there are other bus service is available from "Postogola" of dhaka, one of the bus is "Gangchil" available from that area.

Also you can hire CNG auto rickshaw from the "Postogola", and it will take you 250-350 to take you at Muktarpur bridge. Remember, if you are hiring CNG, make sure who will provide the toll of the bridge. For you information, the toll fee is 20 taka. So negotiate with the driver of CNG about who will provide the toll.

So far I have visited the below listed places from Munshiganj District.

MUNSHIGANJ SADAR::
1) Idrakpur fort, near at stadium.
2) Rampal Dighi at Rampal
3) Bollal Sen's House, North of the Rampal Dighi
4) Baba Adam Mosque, vill: koshba, union: rekabi bazar, Rampal, Sadar
5) Panchasar & Dhaleswari river bank

TONGIBARI::
1) Shonarong Jora Moth, Shonarong village, Tongibari Union

SHIRAJDIKHAN::
2) Tajpur Mosque & Tajpur Santi babur barir moth
3) math at the house of Kankata De at village Tajpur
6) Math at village Fegnasar

SREENAGAR::
2) ShamShiddhir Moth, Sreenagar bazaar, Sreenagar Thana
3) Arail Beel, Shamshiddhi

MAWA::
1) Mawa poddar par

Historical Place Of Idrakpur Fort

Idrakpur, now Munshiganj was a strategically very significant point as it was the junction of a number of rivers including Meghna River, Shitalakshya River, Ichhamati River and Dhaleshwari River. The fort was built on the bank of the junction of Ichhamati River and Meghna River.

The Portuguese and Magh pirates used this point to move forward to Dhaka through Shitalakshya River. On their way they to Dhaka they used to loot other important cities like Sonargaon and Bikrampur.

Mir Jumla II was determined to protect Dhaka and eager to develop the wealthy area Bikrampur. So, he came up with a triangular defense strategy to protect the cities from the Portuguese pirates.

Idrakpur Fort was the center of his strategy. The erection of the fort was intended to check the advance of the Magh and Portuguese pirates proceeding towards the Mughal capital city of Dhaka. The fort was also used as the naval base of the naval fleet of 200 frigates under Mughal admiral Abul Hossain.

According to the strategy, whenever the pirates made an attempt to advance to Dhaka the Mughal soldiers would be ordered to start firing mortars both from the cannons of their 200 battleships and from the Idrakpur Fort leaving the pirates with no options but to retreat or die on the rivers.

However, if any of the pirate ships survived the initial attack and tried to advance to Dhaka the Sonakanda Fort and the Hajiganj Fort, situated on the eastern and western bank of Shitalakshya River respectively, would start throwing round-shots to those ships and vessels and sink all the pirate ships on the river. It was probably built in about 1660 A.D.

Mughals took over the control of the Bengal in 1574 AD after defeating Daud Khan Karrani. Mughals exercised a progressive rule in Bengal. Bengal was then a very wealthy province and was frequently attacked by the pirates.

The Mughal Empire was then locked into a civil war regarding the succession of Emperor Shah Jahan. Shah Shuja, the second son of Shah Jahan and the Subahdar of Bengal, led a campaign to Agra in order to take over the throne. Aurangzeb, after his accession to the throne wanted to appoint a man with high skills in naval warfare as the river-oriented Bengal was the strong hold of Shah Shuja. So he entrusted Mir Muhammad Saeed Ardestani alias Mir Jumla II who was a successful trader in maritime trades in first life, to deal with Shah Shuja.

Mir Jumla II rushed to the Bengal compelling Shah Shuja to retreat. Later, Mir Jumla II was appointed as the Subahdar or the governor of the then Bengal province in 1660.

Mir Jumla was aware of the pirates who used to run a campaign of terror in the important cities of Bengal. After his appointment as the Subahdar, he shifted the capital of Bengal to Dhaka from Rajmahal. In a quest to protect the capital Dhaka from the pirates, Mir Jumla II developed a triangular defense strategy and decided to build up three river forts near Dhaka. One of these three forts is Idrakpur Fort of Munshiganj.

The Population Development Of Subdivision in Munshiganj.

Name	Status	Population Census 1991-03-13	Population Census 2001-01-22	Population Census 2011-03-15
Munshiganj	District (Zila)	1,188,387	1,293,972	1,445,660
Gazaria	Subdistrict (Upazila)	128,368	138,108	157,988
Lohajang	Subdistrict (Upazila)	153,433	167,743	159,242
Munshiganj Sadar	Subdistrict (Upazila)	294,823	327,015	383,263
Serajdikhan	Subdistrict (Upazila)	229,085	241,804	288,107
Sreenagar	Subdistrict (Upazila)	205,797	228,771	259,887
Tongibari	Subdistrict (Upazila)	176,881	190,531	197,173

Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (web).
The area and density of Dhaka's city districts are rough estimates.

Further information Of Sreenagar Upazila In Munshiganj District

Sreenagar (Bengali: শ্রীনগর) is an Upazila of Munshiganj District in tAs of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Sreenagar has a population of 205797. Males constitute 49.88% of the population, and females 50.12%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 99514. Sreenagar has an average literacy rate of 39.1% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate. he Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sreenagar has 14 Unions/Wards, 102 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 147 villages.

Elected MP And Parliament Election Winner Information

Profile	Munshiganj district, formerly a subdivision under Dhaka district, was established in 1984. It consists of 6 upazilas, 67 union parishads, 662 mouzas, 906 villages, 18 wards, 73 mahallas and 2 municipalities.
Upazilla/ Thana	Gazaria Upazila, Lohajang Upazila, Munshiganj Sadar Upazila, Serajdikhan Upazila, Sreenagar Upazila, Tongibari Upazila

Area	954.96 square kilometers.
Bounded by	Dhaka and Narayanganj districts on the north, Madaripur and Shariatpur districts on the south, Comilla and Chandpurdistricts on the east, Dhaka and Faridpur districts on the west.

Famous Tourist Attractions in Munshiganj District

Idrakpur Fort (1660) in Munshiganj town, Panditer vita (birth place of atish dipankar srijnan) at Bajrayogini, Baba Adam's Mosque, Dighi of Raja Haris chandra, home stead of Raja Ballal Sen, home stead of Raja Sreenath at Rampal, Rampal Dighi, Kodal Dhoar Dighi, Shyamsiddhi Math at Sreenagar, Hasara Dargah, Sholaghar Math, Bhagyakul Rajbari, residence of Jagadis Chandra Basu at Radhikhal, Jora Math at Sonarang, Kalibari at Tongibari, Taltala Pancha-shikhara Mahadeva Temple, Talukdarbari Mosque at Kusumpur, Tajpur Mosque, Patharghata Mosque, Kazishal Mosque, Palghata Bridge, Panch Pir Dargah, marble statue of Ashutosh Ganguly inside the library room of Haraganga College.

Shamshiddhir Math, Panditer Vita, Home of Raja Bollal Sen, Birth Place of Atish Dipankar, Bhagyakul Rajbari,Residance of J C. Bosh, Pach Pirar Dargah, Rampal Lake, Hashara Dargha, Sholighor Math, Mohadev Mondir, Bhagyakul Rajbari, Padma Resort  etc. 

Postal Zip Codes for Munshiganj District

Thana/Upazila within Munshiganj District are: Gajaria, Lohajong, Munshiganj Sadar, Sirajdikhan, Srinagar. The following table contains post codes of various sub post office in Munshiganj district.

History And Famous Person Of Munshiganj District

Bikrampur (Munshiganj) was the political and cultural centre of ancient Bengal. It was officially known as Bikrampur until 1986 and was part of Dhaka District. The remains of the city of Bikrampur, the capital of the ancient kingdoms of southeastern Bengal, are lost and its location can only be guessed on the basis of available data. The area comprising the districts of Munshiganj stretching on the west of the Meghna and Dhaleshwari had been included in the kingdom of vikramapura in the ancient period. During the Sena rule Vikramapura in East Bengal had been the second capital of the Senas in addition to their capital at Nadia. After the fall of Nadia in the hands of bakhtiyar khalji (1204) the Sena King lakshmanasena fled to Vikramapura and began to rule East Bengal. After the death of Lakshmanasena (1206) his descendants Visvarupasena and Kesavasena ruled in Vikramapura till at least 1223 AD. Some historians postulate that the sons of Lakshamanasena ruled in Vikramapura up to 1243-45 AD. Raja Dasarathadeva Danujmadhava (Danuj Rai), the Deva king of Chandradvipa, ousted the Senas from Vikramapura in the third quarter of the thirteenth century and ruled the south-eastern Bengal till the end of the thirteenth century.

Administration

The district consists of 6 upazilas:

Lohajang Upazila, Sreenagar Upazila, Munshiganj Sadar, Sirajdikhan Upazila, Tongibari Upazila, Gazaria Upazila

Notable people

Revolutionary Nationalists

• M. Hamidullah Khan, Bangladesh Forces, Sector Commander, Sector 11, Bangladesh War of Independence 1971
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, Great Bengali physicist
• Badal Gupta, revolutionary against British India
• Benoy Basu, revolutionary against British India
• Dinesh Gupta, revolutionary against British India

Social & Scientific

• Chashi Nazrul Islam - artist
• Humayun Azad, linguistic scientist, poet and novelist 
• Durga Mohan Das, Brahmo reformer
• Dwarkanath Ganguly, Brahmo reformer

Art, Culture & Sports

• Brojen Das, the first Bangladeshi and Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it four times
• Emdadul Huq Milon, writer and media personality
• Buddhadeb Bosu‚ writer, poet, playwright, essayist

Public Affairs

• A. N. Hamidullah, First Governor, Bangladesh Bank 
• Abu Sayeed Hafizullah, first Bengali Accountant General of East Pakistan 
• Fakhruddin Ahmed, former chief adviser, Non-Party Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, 2007–2008.
• Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
• A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, former shortest term appointed President of Bangladesh
• Sadeque Hossain Khoka‚ former Mayor of Dhaka
• M. A. Naser, pioneer in Engineering Education, former Vice Chancellor or BUET, Ekushey Padak recipient

The Part Of Picture In Munshiganj District