Tongi

Tongi is a township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a populace of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and functions a BSCIC industrial location, which produces BDT 1500 crore of commercial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka given that 1786. Tongi Shahid Memorial School compound is mass burial web site of the genocide in Liberation War of Bangladesh.

Tongi, a thana in the Gazipur Sadar Upazila together with Joydebpur seeing that 1983, is located straight away north of Dhaka. It lies inside the jurisdiction Gazipur District, that is part of the Dhaka Division. Geologically, the Tongi location comprises the southern extension of the Madhupur tract, a protracted slender tract of tectonically multiplied location of older sediments only some metres above the encompassing rivers the Turag.

Locally, the Tract is subdivided into the Bhawal Garh terrace which is a part of an inlier, an improved area surrounded with the aid of lowlands through very younger riverine sediments occupying the surrounding valleys. The older sediment series includes sandstone of the Dupi Tila Formation overlain via Madhupur Clay, which in turn is overlain by way of alluvium. The elevation of the Tract ies from 2 to 14 m above mean sea degree and it has shallow bedrock which paperwork a firm substrate for assisting huge structures.