District directory

A guide to the institutions that keep Biswanath running. Linked place names open a Google Maps search for that place. We list organisations, not individuals, and we don’t publish phone numbers: follow the official links instead. Something out of date? Tell us.

Emergencies

• 112: national emergency number (police, fire, ambulance)
• 108: ambulance (Assam)
• 1077 / 1070: disaster helplines (1077 district, 1070 state)
• 1098: Child Helpline · 181: women’s helpline
• All district helpline numbers, from the district administration
• Fire stations: Biswanath Chariali, Sootea, Gohpur and Borgang. An SDRF unit is based at Gohpur.

Getting things done

How the district is organised. Biswanath has 2 sub-divisions: Biswanath (HQ Biswanath Chariali) and Gohpur. It has 4 revenue circles (Biswanath, Naduar at Sootea, Helem and Gohpur) and 7 development blocks (Sootea, Biswanath, Sakomatha, Behali, Baghmara, Chaiduar and Pub-Chaiduar).

• District Commissioner’s office, Biswanath Chariali. See the district portal and its contact page.
• Online services: e-District (certificates), Sewa Setu (Assam online services), Assam e-District
• Biswanath Chariali Municipal Board: biswanathchariali.assamurban.in
• Police: Office of the Superintendent of Police, Biswanath, with police stations including Biswanath Chariali, Sootea, Behali, Gingia, Helem and Gohpur.
• District court: Biswanath got its own District & Sessions Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate courts in May 2022. Before that, its courts came under Sonitpur. See biswanath.dcourts.gov.in.
• Vehicles (AS-32): the District Transport Office handles registration and licences. Most services are online at Parivahan.
• Post: Biswanath Chariali’s main post office is Chariali Sub Post Office, PIN 784176. Other PINs in the district include 784175 (Sootea), 784167 (Borgang), 784184 (Gingia) and 784168 (Gohpur).
• Passport: find your nearest Passport Seva Kendra at passportindia.gov.in.
• Aadhaar: use the official Aadhaar centre locator.
• Electricity: bills and complaints through APDCL.

Health

• Biswanath District Hospital: a 100-bed district hospital, dedicated in September 2024.
• Gohpur Sub-Divisional Civil Hospital: 100 beds, with accident & emergency, X-ray and an ICU. It opened in September 2022.
• Biswanath Medical College & Hospital: under construction as of October 2026. It isn’t admitting MBBS students yet.
• Public health network: 3 model hospitals, block and mini primary health centres, 16 new PHCs, a riverine PHC and 126 health sub-centres, per the district health department.
• Tea-garden hospitals: 26 hospitals are run by or with tea estates.

Education

• Biswanath College, Biswanath Chariali: a government college affiliated to Gauhati University, founded in 1960.
• Biswanath College of Agriculture (Assam Agricultural University): it has taught B.Sc. Agriculture since 1988 and postgraduate courses since 2011, on a campus of about 174 hectares.
• NERFMTTI, the North Eastern Region Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute: one of four national institutes under the Union Ministry of Agriculture, set up in 1990.
• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Biswanath Chariali: a CBSE senior secondary school.
• Swahid Kanaklata Barua State University: Assam’s first technical and vocational university, under construction at Bholaguri. Its foundation stone was laid in November 2025.
• DIET Biswanath: the District Institute of Education & Training.

Tea

Tea is one of the district’s main industries. The table below lists estates the Tea Board records in Biswanath, with owners where we could confirm them. Ownership changes, so treat this as a snapshot as of October 2026.

Small tea growers are just as important. The Tea Board counts about 11,300 small growers farming 11,400 hectares in the district. Many sell green leaf to bought-leaf factories, among them Samiran Tea Industry, North Bank Tea Company and Biswanath Tea Industry. The Biswanath District Small Tea Growers’ Association represents them.

See also: Monabarie Tea Estate.

Economy & banking

• Sericulture: the Superintendent of Sericulture’s office in Biswanath Chariali was set up in 1985. It runs eri silk centres and a muga unit in villages across the district.
• Industrial land: AIIDC runs an industrial estate at Sadharu and an industrial area at Dhemajibari, Biswanath Chariali.
• Banks with branches in Biswanath Chariali: State Bank of India, Indian Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India and North East Small Finance Bank. Indian Bank is the district’s lead bank. Use each bank’s branch locator for addresses.

Infrastructure

• NH-15 (formerly NH-52) runs east–west through the district. The Biswanath Chariali–Gohpur stretch (about 57 km) has been widened to four lanes.
• Gohpur–Numaligarh tunnel: approved in February 2026. It will be India’s first underwater road-cum-rail tunnel, running under the Brahmaputra from Gohpur to Numaligarh, and is expected to cut a 6-hour journey to about 20 minutes. Not yet built.
• Railway stations: Sootea, Biswanath Chariali (VNE), Monabari, Niz Borgang, Bedeti, Helem, Brahmajan, Gohpur and Dubia, all on the Rangiya–Murkongselek line. See Getting here.
• Biswanath Ghat on National Waterway 2: the Inland Waterways Authority has a floating terminal here, and a tourist jetty was approved in 2025.
• Power: Biswanath Chariali is the north-east end of the ±800 kV North-East–Agra HVDC link. POWERGRID’s 3,000 MW converter station here sends power from the north-east about 1,775 km west to Agra.
• Water: the Public Health Engineering division at Biswanath Chariali runs piped rural water supply schemes across the district.

Still gathering

We’re still looking for reliable sources on: owners of the tea estates above, ITIs and polytechnics, weekly market (haat) days, private hospitals and nursing homes, and cooperatives and farmer producer organisations. If you can help, get in touch.