Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town ( bn, সীতাকুণ্ড শহর) is an administrative centre and the sole municipality (''

Paurashava Municipal Corporations or municipalities (also known as pourasabha) are the local governing bodies of the cities and towns in Bangladesh. There are 330 such municipal corporations in eight divisions of Bangladesh. A municipal corporation serving ...

'') of

Sitakunda Upazila Sitakunda ( bn, সীতাকুণ্ড ''Shitakunḍo,'' ) is an upazila in the Chattogram District of Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. It includes one urban settlement, the Sitakunda Town, and 10 unions. Sitakunda is the home of the co ...

Chattogram District Chittagong District, renamed the Chattogram District, is a district located in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Chattogram Division. The port city of Chattogram, which is the second largest city in Bangladesh, is l ...

, located in

Chattogram Division Chittagong Division, officially known as Chattogram Division, is geographically the largest of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It covers the south-easternmost areas of the country, with a total area of and a population at the 2 ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...

. Sitakunda is famous for the

Chandranath Temple Chandranath Temple ( bn, চন্দ্রনাথ মন্দির or ''Chandronath mondir''), located on top of the Chandranath Hill, is a famous Shakti Peeth located near Sitakunda in Bangladesh where, as per Hindu sacred texts, the ri ...

and Hindus temple. There is a hot water spring 5 km to the north of the town.

Administration

The Sitakunda town has 9 wards divided into 22

mahalla is an Arabic word variously translated as district, quarter, ward, or "neighborhood" in many parts of the Arab world, the Balkans, Western Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and nearby nations. History Historically, mahallas were autonomous social i ...

s, and a population of 36,650 distributed to 6,914 units of households (average household size 5.3), including 18,662 men and 17,988 women (the male:female ratio is 104:100). The most notable mahallas of the town are Yakubnagar, Nunachara, Mohadebpur, Sobanbagh, Bhuiyan Para, Chowdhury Para (also known as Premtala), Moulvi Para, Amirabad, Edilpur and Shibpur. Shafiul Alam is the mayor of the town, gaining a landslide win over his nearest contender M Abul Kalam Azad in the 2008 mayoral election.News Desk,
AL beats BNP in 8 of 9
, ''The Independent'' (Dhaka), 2008-08-06. Retrieved on 2009-01-28

History

To reduce the

population pressure Population pressure, a term summarizing the stress brought about by an excessive population density and its consequences, is used both in conjunction with human overpopulation and with other animal populations that suffer from too many individuals ...

Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in ...

, Sitakunda has been developed as a

satellite town Satellite cities or satellite towns are smaller municipalities that are adjacent to a principal city which is the core of a metropolitan area. They differ from mere suburbs, subdivisions and especially bedroom communities in that they have m ...

of the city, as well as a zone selected for industrial development along with

Bhatiari Bhatiari is a place situated at Bhatiari Union in Sitakunda, Chittagong. It is a famous tourist spot in Chittagong. The place is surrounded by several lakes and hills. The hilly area in Bhatiary is under control of Bangladesh Army Natural enviro ...

.Urban mass transportation for Chittagong - I
Imon Chowdhooree and Kanu Kumar Das, ''The Daily Star'', Urban Page, 2005-04-08; retrieved: 2007-09-18 The municipality is growing fast as an urban center, especially in and around Sitakunda and Mahadebpur mouzas where the Office of the

Upazila Nirbahi Officer An Upazila Nirbahi Officer (Abbreviation: UNO; bn, উপজেলা নির্বাহী অফিসার) is the chief executive officer of an upazila (subdistrict) and a mid-level officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service (administration ...

and other major Government offices, boys' high school and college are, but public services and facilities like electricity, drinking water, drainage and garbage disposal are under-provided.

Geography

The town, situated on an unbroken flat land of alluvial deposits that lies below the level of high tide, is free from tidal effects and flash floods of the area due to an embankment.Land Use Plan of Sitakunda Paurashava
; Urban Development Directorate, Government of Bangladesh, 2006; retrieved: 2007-08-28

References

{{Reflist Populated places in Chittagong Division