Dibrugarh (Assamese: [dibɹʊ.ɡɔ(ɹ)]) is a city in Upper Assam with sprawling tea gardens.
Today, Duliajan, Dikom, Tengakhat and Moran are the key locations for oil and gas industry in the district.
The Assam Gas Cracker Project was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, in its meeting held on 18 April 2006, under an equity arrangement of GAIL (70%), OIL (10%), NRL (10%) and Govt.
The site selected for Assam Gas Cracker Project is at Lepetkata, 15 km from Dibrugarh on NH-37.
A joint-venture agreement was signed on 18 October 2006, and the company Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited was registered on 8 January 2007.
Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, laid the foundation stone of this project on 9 April 2007.
The first garden was at Chabua, a place 20 miles (32 km) away from Dibrugarh, owned by Maniram Devaan.
The Zone I of the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association (ABITA) is located at Dibrugarh.
Dibrugarh has also become an important destination as well as a major transit point for tourists from both India and abroad.
Airlines operating from the airport are Air India, IndiGo, Vistara, SpiceJet and Pawan Hans.
It is the biggest railway station in the entire north east spreading over 400 bighas of land and it is 2 km in length.
From Bogibeel IWT Ghat there are regular ferry Services to Kareng Chapori & Sisi Mukh.
[33] Dibrugarh has a full-fledged All India Radio centre, All India Radio, Dibrugarh[34] broadcasting in both AM (567 kHz at 529.1 metres of MW) and FM (101.30 MHz) bands airing three transmissions a day[35] along with a 5-minute regional news bulletin at 6:00 pm every day.
Earlier the Kendra used to telecast Assamese language programmes capsuled in Guwahati beginning 20 December 1991.
Sarbananda Sonowal of Bharatiya Janata Party is the current Member of Parliament from Dibrugarh.
[40] BJP's Prasanta Phukan is the incumbent MLA of Dibrugarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency).