In Manipur, a state of India, Churachandpur is a district. It is also the biggest district of Manipur in terms of area. Lamka is a local name given to Churachandpur. The administrative headquarters of the district is located in the town of Churachandpur or Lamka. The term Lam and ka makes up the name Lamka. The term Lam denotes path or route and the term ka denotes junction or intersection. To summarize in brief, an area located at the road intersection is meant by Lamka. A major multi-racial and cosmopolitan town situated in the hills, Lamka owes these attributes to its trade related origin. The Japanese troops bombed this district of Churachandpur during the time of World War II. However, following the end of the war, a tranquil and calm evolution and development have been witnessed by Churachandpur for a time span of fifty years. Many a number of business minded people, who wanted to invest money in return for a handsome sum of profit, came to Lamka, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, attracted by this tranquility. The place is justly called An island of Peace. Paite, Thadou, hmar, lushai, Zou, Simte are the principal languages spoken by the people of the district. Distinct dialects are seen among all the other different tribal communities. Aimol, which is a Sino-Tibetan language, is another language that is spoken here.  A lesser amount of people, which is around less than 3000 people, speaks this particular language. It is written in Latin Script.

Churachandpur History

Amalgamation of Lamkas trade related periphery, which is located in the east and the Songpis missionary periphery, which is located in the districts west occurred by the time of the 1970s. After this came the north and the south, where the township and city started to built up. The governmental frontier of the district came up in Tuibuang, situated in the north. Maximum numbers of administrative headquarters of the districts are established here. The new city settlers came to inhabit Lamka, which in turn developed into the southern periphery for city colonizers. Various characters related to history of Lamka Bazaars, mission of Songpi and offices in Tuibong, mix together to form New Lamka, making it a smaller version of Churachandpur. A minimum of four different tiers of settlement memoirs comprises the town of Churachandpur. Rustic people in heavy amounts come to reside in Lamka from villages located in the interiors; thus making up for the decrease in population that takes place due to the migration of people with expertise to different developed large cities. Deficiency of money investments and municipal planning and inferior administration and organizing functions are the reason for the suffering of Lamkas infrastructures. The same course of happening can be seen in other towns of India as well. The doorway of the town Churachandpur has been repeatedly knocked by occurrence such as solid trash and garbage, jamming of traffic and contamination of air, which are the nasty byproducts of the growth of the town with undeveloped infrastructure.