Shibganj Upazila, Nawabganj
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Shibganj is an Upazila of Nawabganj District
Nawabganj District
Chapai Nawabganj is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rajshahi Division. Originally it was a subdivision under Malda district. In 1947, this was severed from Malda and was given to East Pakistan as a sub-division of Rajshahi district...

 in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

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Geography

Shibganj is located at 24.6833°N 88.1667°E . It has 67009 units of house hold and total area 525.43 km².

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census
1991 Bangladesh census
In 1991, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh. They recorded data from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active...

, Shibganj has a population of 422347. Males constitute are 51.25% of the population, and females 48.75%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 203072. Shibganj has an average literacy rate of 21.1% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.

Administrative

Shibganj has 18 Unions/Wards, 242 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 367 villages.
Shibganj has a few well known places, namely- Kansat town and popular Kansat Bazar.In between Shibganj and Kansat lies a small village Pukhuria with natural pictures and mango trees.
Pukhuria village is situated on the bank of river Ganges where river Ganges enters Bengal. This village had Muslim and Hindu populations. Most of the wealthy Hindues left East Pakistan for India after partition of India. One of Hindu families used to live by the side of the Shahanbandha lake or pukhur and the name pukhuria came from the lake called pukhur. The Hindu family was known as Ghosh family.
Ghosh family had a brick built house by the side of the lake and surrounded on three sides by mango trees and coconut and date trees. This house had a beautiful entrance with Ashoke flowering tree and other trees like Mall. Ghosh family lived there for hundreds of years. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh was born there and studied at Malda Zilla School and Calcutta University and became a Lawyer, MA BL. He practised Law at Chapai Nawabganj of Malda District and later at Malda Town. He was a politician and imprisoned by British during independence movement. He was a political colleague of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Ramesh Chandra Ghosh married SailoBala Sen of Coochbehar. Family of Sailobala Sen was friend of the then Maharaja of Coochbehar.
They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Their eldest daughter was the first female who was a graduate(BA)from Calutta University in that area.One son became Principal of a college at Howrah near Calcutta,two sons became Medical Doctors graduating from Calcutta and another became Chief Architect of Calcutta and had postgraduate qualification from USA being a student there. One of their Doctor sons went to England UK and married an English Lady and settled there and worked in UK National Health Service and had several achievements. He is mentioned in "Who's Who Indians in Britain."

Library

There is a library named Akimuddin Gronthagar at Jaminpur
Jaminpur
Jaminpur, the village where Sir Akimuddin was lived, is 7 kilometres far from Monakawsha, the western village of Bangladesh. This village is under ward no. 1 of Binodpur Union of Shibganj Upazila, Nawabganj. Jaminpur is closed to India with no interval of distance. It is famous for the Akimuddin...

. It contains a philosophy 'knowledge is entry'. The library was established on 4 May 2008. Within a year it worked very good with the students of science. Akimudin Gronthagar arranged three camps to observe the century's only total solar eclipse on 22 July 2009. It has more than 500 books and other tools and papers. It has a team led by Jahangir Alam Sur, science writer and science discussant. The team arranges many program on science.
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