 Assam Bengal Railway had III sections & Silchar railway station come under Section I named as Comilla-Akhaura-Kulaura-Badarpur section opened in 1896–1898 and finally extended to Lumding in 1903.Silchar railway station was the location of one of the uprisings in support of the Bengali language.When the Assam government, under Chief Minister Bimala Prasad Chaliha, passed a circular to make Assamese mandatory, Bengalis of Barak Valley protested.