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
|
Rabindro Kuthibari of Shilaidah:
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]
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