Sirajganj-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Md. Shafiqul Islam of the Awami League .
28-480: Sirajganj-4 constituency consists of Ullapara Upazila of Sirajganj district. March 1973 May 1986 March 1988 June 1996 October 2001 December 2008 January 2014 2018 January 2024 Ullahpara Upazila Ullapara ( Bengali : উল্লাপাড়া ) is an upazila , or sub-district of Sirajganj District , located in Rajshahi Division , Bangladesh . Around 4500 BC ,
56-404: A Mahalle council ( Persian : شورای محله ), a quarter mosque, and a small parkette. A maalo (sometimes maale ), plural maala ( Macedonian : маало / маале, маала ) is a synonym for neighborhood in colloquial speech, but can also appear as part of a neighborhood name, such as Skopje's "Debar maalo", and Bitola's "Jeni maale", "Madzar maala". In Romanian, the word mahala has come to have
84-511: A muhtasib and a territorial muhtasibat . They were urban divisions in central Asian communities which today exist in Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan , and Tajikistan . Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Before the establishment of the Soviet rule in central Asia, mahallas fulfilled local self-government functions connecting
112-677: A population of 5,40,156. Males were 51.13 percent of the population, and females 48.87 percent. The population aged 18 and older was 192,188. Ullapara had an average literacy rate of 39.61 percent (ages seven and older); males had a 44.81-percent literacy rate and females a 34.09-percent rate, compared to the national average of 82.4 percent. Ullahpara Upazila is divided into Ullahpara Municipality and 13 union parishads : Bangala, Barahar, Bara Pangashi, Durganagar, Hatikumrul, Mohanpur, Panchakrushi, Purnimaganti, Ramkrishanpur, Salanga, Salap, Udhunia, and Ullahpara. The union parishads are subdivided into 253 mauzas and 412 villages. Ullahpara Municipality
140-431: A population of 540,156. 130,143 (24.09%) were under 10 years of age. Ullahpara had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 43.63%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1004 females per 1000 males. 47,693 (8.83%) lived in urban areas. According to the 2001 Bangladesh census , Ullahoara has a population of 4,49,243; male constituted 231746, female 217497. In the 1991 Bangladesh census , Ullapara had
168-512: A separate type of settlement administration on some occasions. In rural mountainous areas, villages were often scattered and consisted of relatively separate mahalas with badly developed infrastructure . Today, settlements are divided into towns or villages, and the official division of towns is into quarters. It today is used almost always to refer to the Roma neighbourhoods of towns such as Arman Mahala . In Greece , mahalas ( Greek : μαχαλάς )
196-471: A town, usually with its own school , religious building or buildings, mayor's representative etc. Mahalas are often named after the first settler or, when ethnically separate, according to the dominant ethnicity. In the Ottoman Empire, the "mahalle" was the smallest administrative entity. The mahalle was generally perceived to play an important role in identity formation , with the local mosque and
224-588: 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. Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Today it is popularly recognised also by non-Muslims as a neighbourhood in large cities and towns. Mahallas lie at
252-477: Is an Islamic congregation or parish. Typically, a mahalla supports a single mosque. An imam is seen as the spiritual head of a mahalla. Mahallas are directly subordinate to a city or town , especially an electoral district, for ritual and representative purposes. Unlike a ward , it is an optional and non-elective unit of a city corporation or municipal corporation . Mahalla also means an urban neighbourhood. In Bulgaria , mahalas were historically considered
280-487: Is considered a neighborhood. Sometimes it is considered a quarter of a small town or a gypsy neighborhood. The township of Szentendre lost most of its population during the Ottoman era, and was repopulated by various migrant groups from the Balkans - Serbs , Dalmatians , Bosniaks and the like. They built their own churches and created their own neighborhoods around them. They called them mahala or mehala , using
308-994: Is subdivided into 9 wards and 25 mahallas . Rivers were formerly the only effective routes of communication. The Dhaka-Rangpur highway and the Dhaka-Rajshahi railway connect the upazila (at the village of Newargacha) with other parts of Bangladesh. A road network exists, and the Bangabandhu Bridge over the Jamuna has reduced the overland travel time to Dhaka to about three hours. Alipur Amdanga School and College, Ullapara Science College, Government Akbar Ali College, H.T.Imam Girls School and College are renowned colleges. Momena Ali Biggan School, Ullapara Merchent's Pilot School, Salop High School, Ullapara Adarsha High school, Barahar School and College, Panchlia Badrul Alam High School are renowned schools. Ullapara's oldest secondary school, Salop High School (estabd. in 1905),
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#1732780888480336-621: The Ottoman nomenclature, and the word is still in use to describe these small quarters of the town today. In India, the word mohalla is used in Hindi and Urdu to refer to a "neighbourhood". The "mahalle" is the smallest urban administrative division in Iran . Each city is divided into a few Mantaqe s, ( Persian : منطقه ), which is then divided into Nahiye s ( Persian : ناحیه ), further subdivided to Mahalle ( Persian : محله ), usually having
364-502: The intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions are performed through mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, life-cycle rituals, resource management and conflict resolution. It is an official administrative unit in many Middle Eastern countries. The word was brought to the Balkans through Ottoman Turkish mahalle , but it originates in Arabic محلة ( mähallä ), from
392-429: The local coffee house as the main social gathering institutions. Mahalle lay at the intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions were performed by mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, lifecycle rituals, resource management and conflict resolution. Today, the mahalle is represented in the municipality and government by its muhtar . The muhtarlık,
420-453: The office of the muhtar, has been designed as the smallest administrative office, with representative and enforcement powers at the local level. In some cases, however, the muhtar acts as not only the representative of the government towards the community but also the head of the community toward the government and subverts official government policies by intricate face-to-face mahalle-level relationships. A mahalla ( pronounced mo-hol-la ),
448-499: The ongoing migration crisis, all participants of the festival focus their work using themes of hospitality, identity formation, homelessness, migration, fluctuation, the changing of an existing order and the dissolution of borders. The second Mahalla Festival took place 2018 in Valletta , Malta , in the frame of European Capital of Culture under the title "Generating New Narratives". The third Mahalla Festival took place in 2020 under
476-487: The private sphere with the public sphere. Religious rituals, life-cycle crisis ceremonies, resource management, conflict resolution, and many other community activities were performed at the mahalla, in other words, on the neighbourhood level. An informal council of elders, called oqsoqol (or " aksakal ") provided leadership. After their inclusion in the Soviet Union, informal mahalla organizations were placed under
504-533: The region from the rest of Mymensingh. At that time, the new region was underwater for eight or nine months of the year. According to Xuanzang, the west bank of the Karatoya River was in the kingdom of Pundravardhana ; Ullapara was probably also in the kingdom at the time. The area was settled during the eras of Muslim administration (1204-1757) and the British Raj (1757-1947) before a business center
532-465: The region of Varendra consisted of parts of Dinajpur , Joypurhat , Bogra , Rajshahi and western Pabna . Pabna and Mymensingh were formed by the deposition of alluvial river soil. At that time, there was no Jamuna River , and Sirajganj and Tangail were part of Mymensingh. According to the Chinese traveler Xuanzang , Sirajgonj was inhabited for seven centuries before the Jamuna began to separate
560-579: The root meaning "to settle", "to occupy". In September 2017, a Turkish-based association referred to the historical mahalle by organizing a festival with the title "Mahalla" in the frame of parallel events of the 15th Istanbul Biennial . The festival in Istanbul features cultural initiatives of civil society and artists from the Middle East, Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. Against the background of
588-881: The second oldest Ullapara Merchant's Pilot High English School, was founded in 1906 by the jute merchants of the small river port. Other schools are Kaliakoir Adarsha High School , Ullapara Science College , Government Akbar Ali College Barahar School & College, Barahar Hazi Abbus Ali Alim Madrasha, Barahar Primary School and K.A.M High School . Akbar Ali College, founded in 1970, was the upazila's first college. There are also some schools as Momena Ali Biggan School , Mohonpur KM Institution , Udhunia Manikjan High School , Ullapara Adarsha High School , Kayra High School & College , Kayra Fazil Madrasa , Dadpur High School, Kayra , Kayra Khadiza Saeed High School , and Pukurpar S & B Fazil Madrasha , Panchlia Badrul Alam High School . Mahalla A mahallah , also mahalla , mahallya , mahalle , mohalla , mehalla , or mehalle
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#1732780888480616-525: The south and Belkuchi and Kamarkhanda to the east. Ullapara is an estimated 10–12 feet (3.0–3.7 m) above sea level, and is drained by the Karatoya, Fulzor, Jopjopia and Kamla Dargadoh rivers. The average annual high temperature is 35 °C (95 °F) and the average low is 21 °C (70 °F). Annual average rainfall is 170–190 centimetres (67–75 in). According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh , Ullahpara Upazila had 123,864 households and
644-473: The state control and served as local extensions of the Soviet government. Mahallas were thought to be "eyes" and "ears" of the Soviet government; mahalla became a control mechanism of the state. Mahalla leaders were then appointed by the government. Mahalla level state-society relationships were more complex, however, as their leaders could serve as henchmen as well as act as buffers between the local community and
672-490: The state. Due to intimate, face-to face relationships dominant at the mahalla level, mahalla organizations could often shield the community from the incursions of the state. Since 1993, the Uzbek government reorganized mahalla councils as bearers of "Uzbek nationhood" and "morality," effectively reproducing Soviet style state domination over the society. Thus, they are formal structures run by committees and once again regulated by
700-513: The strictly negative or pejorative connotations of a slum or ghetto that are not present (or not as strongly implied) in other languages. A mahalla is an Islamic congregation or parish in Russia and a number of countries, once part of the Soviet Union . Typically, mahallas support a single mosque. An imam is seen as the spiritual head of the mahalla. Mahallas are directly subordinate to
728-638: The title " Wandering Towers " with online and physical events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 edition, " Murmuration ", took place in the Istanbul district of Kadıköy at the Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Merkezi. The word is used in many languages and countries to mean neighborhood or location and originated in Arabic محلة ( maḥalla ), from the root meaning 'to settle', 'to occupy', derived from
756-399: The verb halla (to untie), as in untying a pack horse or camel to make a camp. In ancient cultures, hospitality involved welcoming a stranger at the host location and offering him food, shelter and safety. That demonstration of hospitality centred on the belief that strangers should be assisted and protected while they travel. A mahala was a relatively-independent quarter of a larger village or
784-474: Was established. In 1875 a thana (police station) was built, and on 2 July 1983, Ullapara became an upazila. Ullapara, with 123,864 households and an area of 409.06 square kilometres (157.94 sq mi), was built on alluvial soil deposited by the Padma , Jamuna and other rivers. The upazilas of Raiganj and Tarash are to the north of Ullapara, Tarash and Bhangura to the west, Faridpur and Shahjadpur to
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