Maligaon is a locality of

Guwahati Guwahati () the largest 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 seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...

, Assam. The headquarters of Northeast Frontier Railway and Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium is situated there.

Education

Colleges

* Lalit Chandra Bharali College * West Guwahati Commerce College

Schools

* Kendriya Vidyalaya Maligaon * Capital Public School * Kamakhya Vidyalaya High School * NF Railway Netaji Vidyapeeth Higher Secondary School * Railway Boys Assamese High School * St. Mary's Senior Secondary school * Swarna English Academy

Festivals and people

Maligaon locality of Guwahati have a population of 50,065 people as per as 2011 census. There are diversified important traditional festivals in Maligaon.

Durga Puja Durga Puja (ISO 15919, ISO: , ), also known as Durgotsava or Shaaradotsava, is an annual festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which pays homage to the Hinduism, Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga's victo ...

is the most important and common as the locality is dominated by

Bengali Hindus Bengali Hindus () are adherents of Hinduism who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. They make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Assam's Barak Valle ...

who are predominant majority in this locality. Bengali new year is also celebrated with great enthusiasm.

Hospitals

The area has a number of hospitals like the NF Railway Central Hospital, Swagat Hospital and Sanjevani Hospital. Also there is a Health Unit at Boripara run by the State Government.

Places of interest

Kamakhya Temple The Kamakhya Temple at Nilachal hills in Guwahati, Assam is one of the oldest and most revered centres of Tantra, Tantric practices, dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya. The temple is the center of the ''Kulachara Tantra Marga'' and the site o ...

, atop the Neelachal hill, the highest spot in the city, draws pilgrims from all over India especially during the Ambubachi festival. A high seat of the shakti sect, it is associated with the legend of the mother goddess who slayed the legendary demon king Narakasur who ruled ancient Assam. * Maligaon Chariali

Sports

Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The stadium has hosted 33 rd first-class matches in 1976 when Assam cricket team played against Orissa cricket team. The ground hosted 32more first-class matches from 1978 to 2009. The stadium also hosted 18

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competit ...

matches when Central Zone cricket team played against North Zone cricket team but since then the stadium has hosted non-first-class matches.Other matches
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Transportation

Air

It is connected by air through Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.

Railways

View of KV Maligaon and Kamakhya station on an overcast day

The Northeast Frontier Railway abbreviated as N.F. Railway is one of the 18 railway zones in

Indian Railways Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...

, headquartered at Maligaon, it is responsible for rail operations in the entire

Northeast The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A '' compass rose'' is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—eac ...

and parts of

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

and

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

. Kamakhya Junction, earlier named as Jalukbari, directly connects Maligaon with many major cities of the country. However, Guwahati Railway Station is a major railway station which is 4 miles (approx 7 km) from Central Maligaon.

References

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External links

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North-East Frontier Railway
Neighbourhoods in Guwahati