Barbigha is a city and a municipality in the

Sheikhpura district Sheikhpura district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. Sheikhpura is the administrative headquarter of this district. Sheikhpura district is a part of the Munger division. Sheikhpura was split from the Munger dist ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It is well connected by road to the state capital of

Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

. National highways NH33 and NH333A also pass through Barbigha, and Bihta-Sarmera four lane state highway passes from

Gopalbad Gopalbad is an Indian village within the Sarmera Block of Nalanda district in Bihar (India). Nearby cities are Sarmera (6 km away), Barbigha (10 km away), Sheikhpura (26 km away), Bihar Sarif (35 km away), Barh (21 km ...

near it.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Indian

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Barbigha had a population of 56,075, of whom 28,246 were male and 27,829 were female. The

sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...

of Barbigha (number of females compared to number of males) is .900, against the state average of .918. Moreover, the child sex ratio is .910, compared to the Bihar state average of .935. The literacy rate of Barbigha is 73.63%, higher than the state average of 61.80%; with a male literacy rate of 81.27% and the female rate at 65.12%. 19% of the population were under 6 years of age. The name is said to derive from the

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

phrase , meaning "twelve

bigha The bigha (also formerly beegah) is a traditional unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in India (including Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat ...

". Barbigha has grown to become the biggest town market of the

, serving as a commercial market for the surrounding villages. Sri Krishan Singh (First Chief Minister of Bihar) was from Barbigha and Rastrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar served as headmaster of a high school in Barbigha.

Education

S.K.R College is a constituent unit of Munger University previously Bhagalpur University. R. Lal College is also situated in Barbigha affiliated from Patliputra University. Other degree colleges are Sundar Singh College Mehus, Neemi College, Sai College, and C.N.B College in Hathiyama etc. Government Polytechnic College and Government ITI College are also two Technical College situated in Barbigha. Other CBSE affiliated schools include Gyan Niketan Residential School, SPS Public School, Divine Light Public School, St Mary's English School, Vikash International Public School, G.I.P Public School, Adarsh Vidya Bharti, Barbigha Central School etc. Bihar Government affiliated schools are Raj Rajeshwar +2 School, Barbigha Town High School, Tailik Balika Inter School, High School kutaut, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Kutaut, +2 School Mehus, Sri Satya Sai Vidya Mandir, Bhadarthi and many more institutions in Barbigha City.

References

{{Munger Division Cities and towns in Sheikhpura district