I frequently cross Sonari Town while going down to Dimapur.
Sonari is located at 27.07°N 95.03°E. It has an average elevation of 97 metres (318 feet). It is a major town on the nearly 500-year-old Dhodar Ali built by the Ahom Kings. Dhodar ali was forcefully commissioned by Ahom king Gadadhar Singha using the so-called lazy people or the socially unproductive Dhods residing within Assam. Situated by the side of the Taokak river, Sonari is the headquarters of Charaideo District, Assam. The nearest railway station is Bhojo, which is about 3 km away located by the bank of historical Disang River. The best way to reach sonari by road is from Sivasagar town through the Dhodar Ali near which the famous royal mausoleum of the Ahom Kings at Charaideo is situated. Sonari is a centre for tea and timber industries and is the gateway to the Mon district of Nagaland.It is claimed that the original name of Sonari was Sonapur. It is also believed that Bhogoniya Raja Jayadwaj Singha rested for days in Sonari before proceeding to Namrup during the invasion of Assam and Ahom capital by Aurangzebs general Mirjumlah during 1663. One of the first two tea estates set up by Maniram Dewan has now been discovered by Dr Pradip Baruah of the Tocklai Experimental Station of the Tea Research Association. Dewan established the Cinnamara TE at Jorhat and Senglung TE near Suffry, Sonari, around 169 years back, in 1845. Maniram Dewan was the first Indian commercial tea planter. In the middle of the town there is a park around a historic Ahom Kingdoms tank called Bor Pukhuri. This park near the post office is now called Lachit Nagar park, since a full size statue of Assams great general from Ahom period is erected here. Similarly a statue of Koch General Chilarai has been erected near Tawkak river bridge while entering the town. In 2004 during the birth centenary of Geetikavi Parvati Prasad Baruva a bust size white statue of this lyrical poet was inaugurated at Sonari.
A tiny commercial town, can call it Mini-Tinsukia. The road condition inside the town and around it is not up to the mark.Sepon to Sonari road is a new construction which cuts down the time, 30 mins maximum to cover the distance.Slightly busy and chaotic with narrow streets but, assigned Headquarter of the Charaideo District.
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A small town on Assam-Nagaland border.About 70-80000 population.All essentials are available. Medical facilities are not very good for specialist health care.
Small town
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Small town with all community people, Historical place charaideo is quite 25km approximately far from sonari town everything is well & fine accept the drainage & roads of the town.
Its my home town always the best..u can find everything here..
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Developing day by day
Personally I dont like Sonari
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