Bijni, now a sub-division of Chrang of Bodoland Territorial Area District, Assam is a historically famous and culturally rich place. The name “Bijni” comes from the name of the powerful Koch King Chandra Narayan alias Bijit Narayan who founded the Bijni kingdom in 1617. The place lost some of its former glory when the Zamindary system met its demise in the post independent India.
Pre dominantly inhabitated by the Bodos and the Koch Rajbongshis, the population of Bijni also comprises people of Schedued Caste and other backward communities in substantial number. Barring in the small town, the main occupation of the vast majority of the people living in the surrounding rural areas is agriculture and related activities. Long after independence, this relatively backward part of the erstwhile Goalpara District had as the centres for formal education scores of Primary Schools and a few High Schools.
So when the bright and the ambitious youths coming
from these High Schools wished to persue further
studies, there was no institition of Higher Education
in the vicinity where they could go to materialise
their objectives. With the precarious financial
conditions of their families discouraging pursuit of
higher education in the distant part of the district,
the majority of the youths of the greater Bijni
locality had no other option than to cutshort their
academic career and live with their dreams unfulfiled.
