Manihari

Manihari
Town
Manihari

Location in Bihar, India

Coordinates: 25°21′N 87°38′E / 25.35°N 87.63°ECoordinates: 25°21′N 87°38′E / 25.35°N 87.63°E
Country  India
State Bihar
District Katihar
Elevation 31 m (102 ft)
Population (2001)
 • Total 21,783
Languages
 • Official Angika, Hindi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 854113
Lok Sabha constituency Katihar
Vidhan Sabha constituency Manihari
Website katihar.bih.nic.in

Manihari is a town and a notified area in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. Pincode of Manihari is 854113. [1]

Geography

Manihari is located at 25°21′N 87°38′E / 25.35°N 87.63°E.[2] It has an average elevation of 31 metres (101 feet). This place is well known for the Manihari ghat, which connects it to Sahibganj, which is also situated on the bank of the River Ganges.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,[3] Manihari had a population of 21,783. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Manihari has an average literacy rate of 44%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 52%, and female literacy is 35%. In Manihari, 19% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Geography

The town is located on the banks of the river Ganges where it meets the river Koshi, thus making the town prone to flooding every year. Manihari is a small border town between the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. Sahebganj is the district town of Jharkhand which is 9 km from Manihari (nautical mile distance), there is regular ferry service, Chief minister Nitish Kumar, flagged off the first passenger train on the newly converted Broad gauge (BG) section of Katihar-Manihari in Katihar division of North-East Frontier Railway (NFR) at Katihar station. There are few local trains which run between Manihari and Katihar.

Manihari Ghat

Before the Farakka Barrage over the Ganges was constructed, people going to the Darjeeling Hills or North Bengal from Kolkata, used to travel by broad gauge train to Sakrigali Ghat and then cross the Ganges by steamer. On the other side of the river at Manihari Ghat, they used to take a metre gauge train to Siliguri.[4] Once Farakka Barrage became operational in 1975 (the barrage has a broad gauge rail line on it), this route became redundant. There still is a ferry service linking Manihari Ghat with Sahebganj.

Education

There are two high schools and a few government schools, and private schools or colleges.

  1. Gurukul International School, Manihari (Run and Managed by Gurukul International Trust)[5]
  2. B.P.S.P. Senior Secondary School
  3. P.L.S.N. Girls Senior Secondary School – Principal-Md.Sayeedur Rahaman – Teachers-Chandrabali Prasad(Sosc),Surendra prasad(Sosc),Bijay Mandal(Eng),Rashmi Nisha(Hin),Anjana Kumari(Snk),Kamlesh choudhary(Math),Rajesh Kumar(Sosc),Rijwanul Haque(Urd),Tauwab Ahmad(sc)Deepak kr Gupta (comp)
  4. S.S.S. Mandir School (p)
  5. National Public School (p)
  6. S.J. Pandey Sanskrit Vidaylaye
  7. Rameshwer Yadav Manihari College Manihari (government and private)
  8. B.M.S. (p)
  9. Grukul Public School (p)
  10. N.P.S. (p)
  11. Bethel mission school

References

  1. ↑ http://www.citypincode.in/BIHAR/KATIHAR/MANIHARI_PINCODE
  2. ↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Manihari
  3. ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  4. ↑ "my school i wish". Madhyamgram Re-visited after 15 years. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  5. ↑ Gurukul International School Website