History

Bringing huge relief to the people of the newly created district South Salmara Mankachar, District Judiciary was established in the district on the 6th of November, 2021. Hon’ble Justice Achintya Malla Buzor Barua inaugurated the Court buildings of District and Sessions Judge, South Salmara Mankachar, at Fekamari by lighting the ceremonial lamp and unveiling the plaque in presence of District and Sessions Judge, Dhubri, Shri Thaneswar Kalita, newly appointed District and Sessions Judge, South Salmara Mankachar, Syed Imdadur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner Shri H. N. Gautam, advocates, other distinguished persons and local people. With much fanfare, people of the locality celebrated the inauguration of the Court of District and Sessions Judge, South Salmara Mankachar as their long pending demand got fulfilled which brought to an end to their plight in travelling to Dhubri for litigation.

The judiciary was first established in the District of South Salmara Mankachar at Hatsingimari in January, 2016 in the form of one Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (M) Court and a Court of Munsiff-cum-Judicial Magistrate First Class.

Before the establishment of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Court, the people of this District had to make arduous journey from Sukchar Ghat, Hatsingimari to Dhubri District Judicial Courts for adjudication of their legal disputes as the people had to leave early in the morning to catch the scheduled boat/ferry and they used to reach there in the noon and by that time court work had already started. The litigants of this area also faced more difficulty to return to their homes after hearing of their cases as last departure time of the boat/ferry from Dhubri is 2.00 pm. Boat journey took four hours to reach Dhubri from Sukchar Ghat, Hatsingimari and to return it took three hours by boat. Although after establishment of Court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Court (M), the problems of litigants of South Salmara Mankachar district got minimised but due to absence of the Court of the District & Sessions Judge and Civil Judge (Sr. Division), litigants of the South Salmara Mankachar District continued to face hardship.

Now, after establishment of the District Judiciary, the people of the South Salmara Mankachar District will have easy access to justice delivery system.

South Salmara Mankachar District was created by bifurcating Old Dhubri district in the year 2016. The district headquarters are located at Hatsingimari village which is situated at about 245 km from Guwahati. It was earlier a sub-division of the Dhubri District.

On 15 August 2015, then then Chief Minister of Assam announced creation of 5 (five) new administrative districts in Assam; South Salmara Mankachar was one among those. On 9 February, 2016 South Salmara Mankachar was inaugurated as an administrative district at a function at Hatsingimari.

South Salmara Mankachar district occupies an area of 568 square kilometres (219 sq mi). Population density of this district is 980/km2 (2,500/sq mi). It shares its borders with Bangladesh in the west and Meghalaya in the south-east. Mighty river Brahmaputra is flowing through this district from east to west with its tributaries.