Katakhal
village
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Coordinates: 24°49′51″N 92°36′51″E / 24.8309°N 92.6143°E / 24.8309; 92.6143
Country	India
State	Assam
District	Hailakandi
District created	01-10-1989
Government
• Body	Hailakandi Municipality Board
Area
• Total	1,327 km2 (512 sq mi)
• Rank	hhh
Elevation	21 m (69 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	659,260
• Density	497/km2 (1,290/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Bangla
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	788XXX
Telephone code	91 - (0) 03844
ISO 3166 code	IN-AS
Vehicle registration	AS-24
Website	hailakandi.nic.in

Katakhal is a town and railway station in Hailakandi tehsil of Hailakandi district in the Indian state of Assam. The village is named after the Katakhal River which originates in Bhairabi after three other rivers merge. The river ends at Kalinagar Village falling into Barak river. The Hailakandi district is one of the three districts of Southern Assam in the Barak Valley.

Bairabi Sairang Railway

Indian Railways has already converted the current 84 km railway from Assam to Bairabi 2 km inside Mizoram. Its 51.38 km long Bairabi Sairang Railway extension from Bairabi to Sairang (20 km north of Aizawl) in Mizoram is under construction with target completion date of March 2019. In August 2015, Indian Railway completed a survey for a possible new route extension from Sairang to Hmawngbuchhuah^[1] on Mizoram's southern tip on the border of Myanmar, where at nearby Zochachhuah^[2] village the National Highway 502 (India) (part of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project) enters Myanmar, leaving a possibility open for yet-unplanned future rail connections to Paletwa.^[3][4]