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Tangail Sadar (Tangail)

Local Gov

The administrative and commercial seat of Tangail district, the urban core of a handloom-and-rice economy on the central Dhaka-division plain.

Wealth rank 368/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. urbanization As the district seat, Tangail Sadar concentrates the district's built-up expansion, with settlement and commercial growth spreading onto surrounding farmland and floodplain margins. So what: Unplanned peri-urban sprawl consumes agricultural land and strains municipal drainage and services. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
  2. economy Despite being the district hub, the local economy reflects Tangail's slow activity growth, with limited industrial diversification beyond trade and handloom-linked services. So what: Weak job creation pushes working-age residents toward out-migration to Dhaka. Source: Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC)
  3. poverty Tangail Sadar records an RWI mean of 0.117, placing it in the upper wealth deciles within the upazila distribution, so its core challenge is service and infrastructure adequacy rather than acute deprivation. So what: Relatively better-off status masks pockets of urban poverty in fringe and informal settlements. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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