Muzaffarpur

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Muzaffarpur v • d • e Bihar • India
Muzaffarpur
District(s)	Muzaffarpur district
Coordinates	26.07° N 85.45° E
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	36 Sq.Km. km² (Expression error: Unrecognised word "sq" mi²) • 190 ft. m (Expression error: Unrecognised word "ft" ft)
Population • Density	300,000 (2001) • 10,000 person/km²
Mayor	Sameer Kumar
Codes • Postal • Telephone • UN/locode • Vehicle	• 842001 • +0621 • INBOM • BR06
Website: www.muzaffarpur.nic.in

Coordinates: 26.07° N 85.45° E

Muzaffarpur pronunciation (help·info) is a city, and a municipal corporation in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is head quarters of the district.

The city of Muzaffarpur, famous for Litchis (a fruit found only in a few locations in the world), is a vibrant city of North Bihar. It is situated on the banks of a Himalayan snow-fed perennial river Burhi/Budhi (Old) Gandak.

1 Geography
2 Economy
3 Demographics
4 Education
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Geography

Muzaffarpur is located at 26.12° N 85.4° E^[1]. It has an average elevation of 47 meters (154 feet).

Muzaffarpur is a rapidly growing city. The population explosion in the last decade has been phenomenal. Thousands of villagers migrated to this town from nearby villages in the rapid uncontrolled urbanization in post-independence India. However, this has led to a host of problems, the most prominent of them being drainage and sanitation. Due to a saucer-like topography, drainage has always been a problem. In recent years all urban problems have been greatly compounded by the population explosion, unregulated growth, lack of quality engineering and technological expertise, and most notably, due to extremely poor governance, inefficiency, rampant corruption, inactive policing, lawlessness, and lack of a work culture at many levels of the government machinery. The downtown areas of Muzaffarpur are known as Kalyani Chowk and Saraiyagunj. Both areas are densely populated with small shops selling a plethora of goods and services, with colourful settings and buzzing with large crowds. Motijheel is the main shopping area. Chakkar Maidan is a place where there is small settlement of the Indian Army & nearby are popular schools like Prabhat Tara. Popular temples are the Kali temple, Garib Sthan (Shiva Temple), Devi Mandir (Durga). Apart from these, there are several old temples in the town. There are also large and small temples of other religious communities like Sikhs, Muslims, Budhists, Jains, Christians, etc.

Climate- The summer is extremely hot and humid (40 deg C,90 % Max.) and winters are pleasant (6 deg C). There are few historical places to visit nearby such as Vaishali (claimed as first-ever Democratic State in the world) and one of the places (of Buddhism and Jainism importance - 35 km.). Outing- Flood plains in green settings dotted with sweet water ponds ,meandering glacier fed rivulets and innumerable fruit orchards are ideal for picnics. The city has a water table just 20 ft. below the ground and is green round the year. Hotels -There area few hotels with A.C. and non-A.C.rooms.

[edit] Economy

It is world famous for exporting lichi (a fruit).It is also famous for sugar cane and the district has a few sugar mills - now old and dilapidated. It had been the commercial hub of North Bihar and the wholesale centre of all types of mill clothes in famous Marwari community dominated Suta Patti and commodities in "Gola" Market of Saraiyagunj. Commercial hub of the town is Motijheel.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census^GRIndia, Muzaffarpur had a population of 305,465. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Muzaffarpur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 65%. In Muzaffarpur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Muzaffarpur is largely an agricultural based economy.

[edit] Education

Muzaffarpur is a leading centre of education in Bihar. It boasts of a medical and an engineering college and one of the oldest universities of Bihar (Bihar University, now known as B.R.A. Bihar University).

Educational institutions:

Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology (1954)
S.K.Medical College (1969)
B.R.A. Bihar University - This is the oldest university of north Bihar having crumbling buildings in sync with with general state of affairs of Bihar.
Langat Singh College - This the oldest college of Muzaffarpur. Langat Singh College affiliated to the University of Bihar had the likes of Dinkar (a famous Hindi poet), Dr. Rajendra Prasad (the first President of India), and Acharya J. B. Kriplani as its faculty members.
M.D.D.M. College - "Mahant Darshan Das Mahila College".
R.D.S. College
R.M.L College - This college is named after Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia.
Prabhat Tara School - One of the oldest and most reputed schools having many distinguished alumni in India and abroad. The school has the largest and the most beautiful campus among all the schools in Muzaffarpur.
S.A.V. School - The first C.B.S.E affliated school in Muzaffarpur .
D.A.V. Public School - Many students of this small school are now highly placed in India and abroad.