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Kushtia (কুষ্টিয়া)

KUSHTIA

About Kushtia:

Kushtia is a district in the 

Khulna administrative division of western Bangladesh. Kushtia has existed as a separate district since the partition of India. Prior to that, Kushtia was a part of Nadia District under Bengal Province of British India. Kushtia District has an area of 1608.80 square kilometres and is bounded by Rajshahi, Natore, Pabna districts to the North, by Chuadanga, Jhenaidah districts to the South, by Rajbari District to the East, and by West Bengal and Meherpur District to the West. Kushtia was created as a district in 1947 with the partitioning of India. Kushtia District has a population of 1,946,838, of which 50.86% are male and 49.14% female. In terms of religion, 95.72% dwellers of Kushtia are Muslims, 4.22% follow Hinduism and other religions make up 0.06%. Religious institutions are mosques 3587, temples 185, and churches 32. Kushtia produces a large amount of rice in Khajanagor by auto rice mill. BRB is a famous brand and a tobacco factory (British American Tobacco) is also.

 
How to go Kushtia from Dhaka:

By Road:

You can travel to Kushtia from Dhaka by bus. Some of the bus services have been listed below for your assistance:

Transport Name	Source	Contact
SB Super Deluxe	Gabtoli Counter	02-9000627
Shyamoli Paribahan	Gabtoli counter	01711-987028
Mamun Enterprise	Saydabad Bus Terminal	02-7545317, 01711-337851, 01718-438732, 01912-064032

Where to Stay (Accommodation Facilities):

There are some hotels in the district where you may consider staying in. Some of them have been listed below for your assistance:

Hotel/Reosrt	Tel/Cell Phone
Azmiree hotel	071-53012
Desha Guest house	01720510212
Hotel Al-Amin	071-54193
Hotel Gold Star	071-61675
Hotel Gold Star	071-71660
Hotel River view	071-71660
Hotel Mukta International

Food Facilitties:

Local and Bangla food are available here. You need to search for restaurants nearby, or you can carry foods.

List of Historical Places of Kushtia

Kuthibari of Rabindranath Tagore  The Shrine of Lalon Fakir Jhaudia Shahi Mosque Bheramara Thermal Power Station Gorai River Ghorai par Hardinge bridge (1912) Heat generated Electricity Centre Home of Baul Lalon Shah Islamic University Kushtia City Municipality House Mir Mosharraf Hossain  House (Kumarkhali) Mohini fabrics Mill Nill Kuthi Bari Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman Shishu Park (Kushtia Sadar)

Rabindro Kuthibari of Shilaidah:

Rabindro Kuthibari

Shilaidaha is a located in Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia District. It is located at a distance of about 20 km from Kushtia town. The place is famous for Rabindra Kuthibari of Shilaidaha. Actually it is a country house which was made by the father of Rabindranath, Dwarkanath Tagore. He stayed there for over a dacade at irregular intervals between 1891 and 1901. Rabindranath Tagore lived a part of life here and created some of his memorable poems while living here. In 1890 Tagore started managing their family estates in Shelaidaha. He mostly stayed on a houseboat. Here he wrote many poems, essays and stories. The reformation of Shilaidaha Kuthibari has been completed under the Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Cultural Affairs. It is now a protected national tombstone where a Tagore Memorial Museum has been recognized by the government. It shows many things which were in fact used by the poet and by the family of the poet.

The Shrine of Lalon Fakir:

The Shrine of Lalon Fakir is located in Kushtia district of Khulna division close to Kushtia Railway Station. Lalon Fakir was born in 1774 and died in 1890. The details of Lalon’s early life are debatable and not possible to verify. He had many qualities, a spiritual leader, mystic poet, reformer and composer of Baul songs. Researchers say that it is said by locals that Lalon was born into a Kayastha family in the Bharora village in Kushtia. The Lalon festival is held every year at the Lalon Akhra in Kushtia every year where Bauls and admirers of Lalon from different parts of the country gather. Many singers sing Bauls songs that hold audience spellbound.

How to go:

The Shrine of Lalon Fakir is 2 km away from Kushtia railway station. You need to take bus or CNG or auto rickshaw and head there from the rail station.

Jhaudia Shahi Mosque:

A three dome mosque and its easily readable from the outlook of the mosque that it was built couple of several hundred years before. Local people used to believe that the mosque was built by the Allah (God of Muslim people). The reason behind this is, there is no information about the builder of the mosque. No data about who and when it was built. To guide the people, learned scholar people kept a signboard to signify that "No mosques are built by Allah, all are made my human, even the most holy mosque 'Mecca' of Muslims."

Gorai River:

The Gorai is a very old river. Its early name was Gauri. The famous geographer and astronomer Ptolemy noticed about five estuarine mouths of the Ganges. One of those, the 'Kambari Khan', was perhaps the Gorai. The course of the Gorai-Madhumati is wide, long and meandering. From its originating point at Kamarkhali, it is navigable by boats in the monsoon, but in the dry season it becomes non-navigable. In the downstream it is navigable throughout the year. Maximum recorded flow at Kamarkhali is 7,932 cusecs. The breadth of the river increases as it flows down and at the end it is about 3 km.

Gorai-Madhumati River a principal distributary of the Ganges. The same river has been named as the Gorai in the upper course and Madhumati in the lower course. Once the main flow of the Ganges used to be discharged by this river, although previously Hugli-Bhagirathi was the original course of the Ganges. The Gorai takes off from the Ganges at Talbaria, north of kushtia town and 19 km downstream from Hardinge Bridge. South of Kushtia its first offshoot, the Kaliganga branches off to join the kumar near shailkupa. This river has been dammed by one of the primary canals of the ganges-kobadak irrigation project (G-K Project) and the lower half of the course is now almost a dry bed. The main river bifurcates and rejoins several times as it flows southeast to Mohammadpur upazila in Magura district. From here it changes its name to Madhumati. The Kumar, the nabaganga and the chitra join it through several channels south of Mollahat upazila. There it changes its name to Baleshwar, which in turn changes to Haringhata from the Bogi forest outpost of the sundarbans. The Gorai-Madhumati has a flood discharge of nearly 7,000 cusecs but in winter its flow goes down to five cusecs.

The Gorai-Madhumati is one of the longest rivers in Bangladesh and its basin is also very wide and extensive. It flows through Kushtia, Jessore, Faridpur, Khulna, Pirojpur and Barguna districts. Agriculture and irrigation in these areas are very much dependent on the Gorai-Madhumati. Kumarkhali, Janipur, Sheuria, Ganeshpur, Khulumbari, Langalbandh, Shachilapur, Nacole, Lohagara, Pangsha, Baliakandi, Boalmari, Kashiani, Bhatiapara, Nazirpur, Kachua, Pirojpur, Sarankhola, Mathbaria, Patharghata and Morrelganj are the important places on the banks of the Gorai-Madhumati river.

Islamic University:

Islamic University is one of the major public universities in Bangladesh and the largest seat of higher education in the south-west part of the country. It is a major international center for an excellent integration of Islamic Studies with the General Studies and Studies of Modern Science and Technology. The university provides both the local and foreign students with the facilities of undergraduate studies, postgraduate research and teaching. The standard of teaching is high and the facilities both for academic and extracurricular activities are of good quality. It is a campus oriented university, where the academic and administrative buildings, residential halls and gymnasium, central cafeteria and auditorium all are on one self-contained 175-acre site at Shantidanga-Dulalpur, beside the Kushtia-Khulna highway and about 24 kms south and 22 kms north of respectively the Kushtia and Jhenidah district-towns.

Islamic University, having started its academic activities on June 28, 1986 now has about 10 thousand regular students studying in 22 Academic Departments under five Faculties. The main objective for establishing Islamic University is "to provide for instruction in theology and other fields of Islamic Studies and comparative jurisprudence and such other branches of learning at Graduatge and Postgraduate level as the University may think fit and make provision for research including Post-Doctorate research and training for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge". [Clause 5(a), The Islamic University Act 1980(37)]

The University should also be considered as the affiliating authority of the Fazil and Kamil Madrasahs and shall exercise all the powers conferred on it by or under this Act. [Clause 4(2) of Islamic University (Amendment) Act, 2006]