Geographical Location of Bam

Bam is a landlocked geographic region in the south west corner of Cachar District in Assam, India, spread over 281.87  sq. km approximately. 

Notionally Bam starts  from Ramprasadpur, a village 27 km south of  Silchar, in the Silchar -Bhagabazar - Aizwal road, now the four lane National Highway No. 44. Other villages of Bam in the same latitudinal line of Ramprasadpur  are Lantugram - Dulalgram and Sukhtola. Other villages of Bam  in North boundary are Malugram and Bhubandahar. In the West Rengti Hill, in the eastern end of Hailakandi district forms the 13 km boundary of Bam. In the remaining 12 km of Bam, in the south-west, and 10 km boundary to the south of Bam lie the hills of Mizoram. To the east of Bam are the vast uninhabited 15 km long and 10 km wide uninhibited and deep Barak reserved forest of Bhuban hill ranges between Barak and Sonai rivers.

In the map Bam would look like a sitting jar with 10 km bottom, 18 Km in middle, and 5 km at top and 21 Km in height. Bam is not an administrative area to be found in the revenue map and record of Cachar district administration, even as it forms a part of Davidsonabad Parganah (created in 1902) of Cachar District under Sonai Revenue Circle. Bam covers 54.23% area of Narsingpur Development Block and 6.47 % area of Palonghat Development Block in the southern end of these Blocks.  Bam is broadly situated between 92.9391 E (Dholakhal FV), 92.7994 E (Lailapur) longitudes and 24.6124 N (Ramprasadpur) & 24.3816 N latitudes in this globe. 

Bam consists of 48 small revenue villages and 39 inhabited forest villages totaling 87 villages with average village size of 1.48 sq. km spread over 128.96 sq. km constituting 3.38% of the land area of Cachar District. The forest villages are villages in unclassified and reserved forest areas under Forest Department administration. These are smaller in size with average 0.85 sq. km in area whereas average size of revenue village is 2 sq. km. 

The following Gram Panchayats are in Bam - Dholai GP, Bhagabazar GP, Saptagram GP, Channighat GP, Rajnagar GP, Jamalpur GP, Sewrartol GP and  Jibangram GP  of Narsinghpur Development Block. Besides these GPs two villages of Palonghat Development Bock are situated in Bam. 

Southern region of Barak Valley, showing location of Bam

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