Lalganesh is a neighbourhood of

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

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. It is a little far from the heart of the

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. This place is famous for an old

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. Many people believe that if anyone wishes anything in this

their wishes get fulfilled. Lalganesh is home to a wide range of markets and commercial centres. The real beauty of this place can be seen at night when the whole place is filled with lights. JoyRaj image934

Healthcare

One of the leading super speciality hospital of North-East, Hayat Hospital is located at Lalganesh.

Demography

Lal Ganesha area including Kalapahar locality as word numbers- 52 and 17 have a population of 9 thousands and 21.3 thousands people as per as 2011 census. The Lalganesh area included Kalapahar as well and the demography here mainly consists of

Bengali Hindus Bengali Hindus ( bn, বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু, translit=Bāṅgālī Hindu/Bāṅāli Hindu) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Benga ...

who form overwhelming majority of the population of the area.

Durga puja Durga Puja ( bn, দুর্গা পূজা), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsava, is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated ...

and Kali puja are the most celebrated festivals of this area and many more festivals are celebrated like Bengali new year with great favour with enthusiasm.

Flood

Lalganesh is a

flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

prone area. During heavy

rainfall Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water f ...

Lalganesh gets flooded. Many measures have been made by the

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to improve the condition of this place due to flood, like

leveling Levelling or leveling (American English; see spelling differences) is a branch of surveying, the object of which is to establish or verify or measure the height of specified points relative to a datum. It is widely used in geodesy and cartogra ...

of roads, making wide and deep drains, roads having kerbs with vertical inlets etc.

References

Neighbourhoods in Guwahati {{Assam-geo-stub

Healthcare

Demography

Flood

See also

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