Chabua

Chabua চাবুৱা Hiloidhari
city
Chabua Location in Assam, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	Assam
District	Dibrugarh
Government
• Body	Chabua Town Committee
Elevation	106 m (348 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	77,230
Languages
• Official	Assamese
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Chabua (IPA: tʃəˈbʊə or tʃəˈbwɑː) is a town and a town area committee in Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam, India.Chabua is situated in between Dibrugarh and Tinsukia on NH-37 30 km and 20 km away from both the District towns respectively.

Geography

Chabua is located at . It has an average elevation of 106 metres (347 feet).

Demographics

As of 2011 India census, Chabua had a population of 77230. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Chabua has an average literacy rate of 88%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 83% and female literacy of 72%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Politics

Chabua is a Legislative Assembly constituency and a Circle of Dibrugarh District. Chabua is part of Lakhimpur.

History

In the early 1820s, the British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam, India, of a tea variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho tribe. In 1826, the British East India Company took over the region from the Ahom kings through the Yandaboo Treaty. In 1837, the first English tea garden was established at Chabua in Upper Assam; in 1840, the Assam Tea Company began the commercial production of tea in the region, run by indentured servitude of the local inhabitants. Beginning in the 1850s, the tea industry rapidly expanded, consuming vast tracts of land for tea plantations. By the turn of the century, Assam became the leading tea producing region in the world. The word Chabua consist of two words: chah which means "tea" and bua which means plantation. Later on, Chahbua became Chabua and the place got its name.

During World War II, Chabua Air Force Station was constructed on the outskirts of the town. Chabua airfield was one of the largest bases used by the USAAF Air Transport Command to ferry supplies and personnel across The Hump to China in World War II. Chabua was headquarters for both the Assam and Bengal Wings of the India-China Division, ATC; and the operating base for the flying squadron of the 1333rd AAF Base Unit.

The country's eastern sector bordering China got fortified on March 8, 2011, with the induction of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft at the Chabua Air Force Station. The initiation was done through a symbolic ceremony with the inaugural flight of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI taking off from here. It also performed an overshoot before landing. Chabua is the second airbase in the northeast after Tezpur to house the Sukhois, capable of striking targets inside China with a cruising speed range of 3,200 km, which can be more than doubled with mid-air refuelling by IL-78 aircraft.

Education and research

Chabua has many educational institutions:

Colleges:

• DDR College, Chabua
• Chabua Junior College, Chabua
• Purvajyoti Academy

ITI:

• NEEI, Chabua

Schools:

• Assam Vidyapith H.S. School.
• Jatiya Vidyalay, Chabua
• Little Angel School, Chabua
• Montfort High school, Chabua
• Rashtriya Hindi Vidyalaya HE School, Est.-1952
• Bastuhara Vidyalaya H.E school.
• Dinjoy H.M.H.S. School

Health & Medical services

• Referral Hospital & Research Centre
• ST. Lukes Hospital,
• Rural Health & Training Centre, Chabua, supervised by Assam Medical College
• Tata hospital

Notable people

• Dinesh Chandra Dutta,Founder Principal DDR College.
• Sarbananda Sonowal,Politician
• Julie Christie, British actress
• Narayan Ghatowar, writer
• Kameswar Khound, politician
• Dr Joy Krishna Mahanta and Junu Mahanta- Writer
• Juri Borgohain-Writer
• Amrit Upadhyay-Software Engineer