Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town () is an administrative centre and the sole municipality (''

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

'') of Sitakunda Upazila in Chattogram District, located in Chattogram Division,

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. Sitakunda is famous for the Chandranath Temple and Hindus temple. There is a hot water spring 5 km to the north of the town.Mohammed Abdul Baten & Rashedul Tusher,
Time to move to green energy
, ''The Daily Star'' (Dhaka), 7 February 2007, Retrieved on 2 February 2009

Administration

The Sitakunda town has 9 wards divided into 22

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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. Badiul Alam was the mayor of the town, he was first elected in 2015 and again in 2020 in the Sitakunda municipality election, he is a

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politician.

History

To reduce the population pressure on

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, Sitakunda has been developed as a

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of the city, as well as a zone selected for industrial development along with Bhatiari.Urban mass transportation for Chittagong - I
Imon Chowdhooree and Kanu Kumar Das, ''The Daily Star'', Urban Page, 8 April 2005; retrieved: 18 September 207 The municipality is growing fast as an urban center, especially in and around Sitakunda and Mahadebpur mouzas where the Office of the

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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: 28 August 2007

Climate

References

{{Reflist Populated places in Chittagong Division Sitakunda Upazila