Titas Upazila

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Titas
তিতাস
Upazila
Titas is located in Bangladesh
Titas
Titas
Location in Bangladesh
Coordinates: 23°36′N 90°46′E / 23.600°N 90.767°E / 23.600; 90.767Coordinates: 23°36′N 90°46′E / 23.600°N 90.767°E / 23.600; 90.767
Country Bangladesh
DivisionChittagong Division
DistrictComilla District
Area
 • Total125.74 km2 (48.55 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (BST)
Websitehttp://titas.comilla.gov.bd

Titas (Bengali: তিতাস) is an upazila of Comilla District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.[1]

History[]

Titas was created in 2004. It split with nine Unions from Daudkandi Upazila. The name Titas named after the river Titas. Then minister and local MP Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain proposed the name.[citation needed]

Location[]

It has Homna Upazila of Comilla District on the north, Daudkandi Upazila on the south, Muradnagar Upazila on the east and Meghna Upazila on the west.[citation needed]

Administration[]

Titas Upazila is divided into nine union parishads:Balorampur, Jagatpur, Kalakandi, Karikandi, Majidpur, Narayandia, , , Zearkandi. The union parishads are subdivided into 61 mauzas and 138 villages.[2]


Notable residents[]

  • Atiqul Islam - Mayor, Dhaka North City Corporation
  • Md Mainul Islam - former chief, Border Guards Bangladesh
  • Abdul Matin- Deputy Secretary at Ministary of Public Administration / BCS1986 Batch (Ex APS to ex PM Begum Khaleda Zia)
  • - Entrepreneur,
  • Md. Tafazzul Islam - 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh.[3]
  • Ferdous Ahmed - Bangladeshi Film Actor.
  • - Former Senior Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation(PKSF) .

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Uddin, AKM Jasim (2012). "Titas Upazila". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  2. ^ "District Statistics 2011: Comilla" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Life sketch of newly appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 2009-12-23. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.


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