Sitamarhi is one of the

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in the

Mithila Mithila may refer to: Places * Mithilā, a synonym for the ancient Videha state ** Mithilā (ancient city), the ancient capital city of Videha * Mithila (region), a cultural region (historical and contemporary), now divided between India and Nepal ...

region of the Indian

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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.

Dumra Dumra is a town and a notified area in Sitamarhi district in Bihar, India. Dumra is the headquarter of Sitamarhi district. It has approximately 16 wards. There is a small railway station situated in Dumra. Geography Dumra is located at . It ...

is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district is a part of the Tirhut Division and is located along the border of

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History

This place is considered as birthplace of

Sita Sita (; ) also called as Janaki and Vaidehi is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, ''Ramayana''. She is the consort of Rama, the avatar of the god Vishnu, and is regarded as a form of Vishnu's consort, Lakshmi. She ...

, the main character of the epic ''

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'' and a temple dedicated to Sita lies near

Sitamarhi Sitamarhi is an Indian city and the district headquarters of the Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of Bihar and is a part of the Tirhut Division. It dates back to the time of Ramayana and is considered as the place where Janaka found Sit ...

town. A Rock cut sanctuary of

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period is found near Sitamarhi. In 1875, a Sitamarhi subdistrict was created within the

Muzaffarpur district Muzaffarpur District is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar States and territories of India, state, India. Muzaffarpur district is part of and also the headquarters of Tirhut division, Tirhut Division Tirhut is the ancient name of all of ...

. Sitmarhi was detached from Muzaffarpur and became a separate district as of 11 December 1972.District Health Action Plan
, National Rural Health Mission, Government of Bihar, Retrieved 25 May 2010 It is situated in the northern part of Bihar. The district headquarters is located in

, five kilometers south of Sitamarhi. Sitamarhi district became a full-fledged district when it was split from

in 1972. 1994 saw the split of Sheohar district from Sitamarhi. The district is currently a part of the

Red Corridor The red corridor, also called the red zone, is the region in the eastern, central and the southern parts of India where the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency has the strongest presence. It has been steadily diminishing in terms of geographical cove ...

Geography

Sitamarhi district occupies an area of , comparatively equivalent to

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. It is bordered by Nepal to the north, Madhubani district to the east,

Darbhanga Darbhanga is the fifth-largest city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Bihar situated centrally in Mithila region. Darbhanga is the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It was the seat of the erstw ...

and

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth m ...

districts to the south, and

Sheohar Sheohar (pronounced, Shivahar) is the principal city of Sheohar district in Bihar, India. It is Located Northwest City 31.06 kilometres Kasba Mehsi in Mehsi It is a part of the Tirhut Division. Geography Sheohar is located at coor 26.52N, 8 ...

and

East Champaran East Champaran is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India.The district headquarters are located at Motihari. Prior to 1st Dec 1977, there was a single district called "Champaran". On 1st Dec 1977, the district was divided into 2 ...

districts to the west. It is situated on a flood plain. In August 2019, Sitamarhi district suffered heavy flooding.

Politics

Block

Economy

It is one of the 38 districts in Bihar currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

Education

The following is a list of Schools in Sitamarhi, Bihar, India * Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Sitamarhi (JNV Sitamarhi) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Navodaya_Vidyalaya,_Sitamarhi * D.A.V. Public school, runnisaidpur * S.R Dav public school, pupri * Saraswati vidya mandir, Pupri * Sitamarhi Central school, Simra
Kendriya Vidyalaya Jawahar Nagar, Sutihara
*

Janki Vidya Niketan Sitamarhi is one of the districts in the Mithila region of the Indian state of Bihar, India. Dumra is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district is a part of the Tirhut Division and is located along the border of Nepal. Hi ...

* Sacred Heart School * Thakur Yugal Kishore Singh College, Pratap Nagar * Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Ring bandh * N.S.D.A.V. Public School * Hellen's School Sitamarhi * Delhi Public School, Lagma * Brilliant Public School, Sitamarhi * R.O.S. Public School, Khairwa, Riga Road, Sitamarhi * Mathura High School * Sri Gandhi High School, Parihar * Lakshmi High School * Kamala–Girls High School * Idaa Dawatul Haque, Madhopur Sultanpur, Runni Saidpur * Jamia Islamia Quasmia Darululoom Balasath

Tourism

Sita Kund The Punaura Dham, Janki Mandir is a Hindu pilgrimage site in Sitamarhi district, in the India in state of Bihar, which has an ancient Hindu temple. It is situated 5 km west of Sitamarhi City and a popular visitor's attraction. Punaura Dham ...

Haleshwar Sthan The Haleshwar Sthan is a Hindu pilgrimage site in Sitamarhi in the state of Bihar,India, which has an ancient Hindu temple. It is situated 3 km north-west of Sitamarhi town. Haleshwar Sthan is one of the holiest Hindu temples dedicated to ...

* Panth Pakar

Transport

National Highway 77 connects the area to the

and

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. ...

to the South. Sitamarhi has road connections to adjoining districts, of which the major examples are National Highway 77 and National Highway 104. It is situated on the Darbhanga Narkatiaganj railway line and has the largest railway station of the district. Another broad gauge track, running between

and Sitamarhi. Direct train services are available to places such as New Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Hyderabad and Kanpur. State highways link it to the Madhubani (to the east) and

(to the west) districts. Railway lines connect

in east, and to

in the south and to

Raxaul Raxaul is a sub-divisional town in the East Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated at the India-Nepal border with Birgunj city (Nepal). Raxaul is a major railway junction. The Indian border town of Raxaul has become on ...

in the west. Sitamarhi has a railway junction. Sitamarhi railway station is on the Raxaul-Darbhanga rail route. The nearest airport to Sitamarhi is the

Darbhanga Airport Darbhanga Airport is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force Station, serving Darbhanga, Bihar, India. It is located just at the outskirts of the city near the NH-105 and NH-57 highways, which pass through Darbhanga. The airport is op ...

which is about 70 km from Sitamarhi. The Sitamarhi-Bhitthamore Road is important for religious reasons as it connects Janakpur, which houses a 200-year-old Janki Temple with Sitamarhi—considered to be the birth place of

Goddess Sita Sita (; ) also called as Janaki and Vaidehi is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, ''Ramayana''. She is the consort of Rama, the avatar of the god Vishnu, and is regarded as a form of Vishnu's consort, Lakshmi. She ...

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passes through

Bhitthamore Shrikhandi Bhittha or Bhitthamore is an Indian village in the Mithila region of Bihar, situated near the Indo-Nepal border, on the banks of the perennial Ratnawati (Raato) river. Geography It has a Border checkpoint at the crossing to Malib ...

. Thus it is a gateway to

Janakpur Janakpurdham or Janakpur ( ne, जनकपुर, ) is a sub-metropolitan city in Dhanusha District, Province No. 2, Madhesh Province, Nepal. The city is a hub for religious and cultural tourism. A headquarter of Dhanusha District, Dhanusha dist ...

and other parts of Sitamarhi & Madhubani.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Sitamarhi district has a

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

of 3,423,574, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 96th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its

population growth rate Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to ...

over the decade 2001-2011 was 27.47%. Sitamarhi has a

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 899

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for every 1000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of 53.53%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 11.85% and 0.09% of the population respectively. At the time of the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, 33.45% of the population in the district spoke

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 ...

, 13.96%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

Maithili as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
/ref> The main dialect of the region is Western Maithili dialect of Maithili.

Notable people

* Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha - Former MP & Freedom Fighter, Father of Co-operative Movement *

Ram Dulari Sinha Ram Dulari Sinha (8 December 1922 – 31 August 1994) was a nationalist, freedom fighter Indian National Congress, Indian parliamentarian, Union Minister, and Governor. Life She was Union Minister in Governments headed by Indira Gandhi and R ...

- Former Union Minister & Governor & Freedom Fighter, First woman from Bihar to become Governor * Nawal Kishore Rai - Ex Member of Parliament * Sitaram Yadav - Ex Member of Parliament *

Ram Kumar Sharma Kushwaha Ram Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician and a member of parliament from Sitamarhi (Lok Sabha constituency), Bihar. He won the 2014 Indian general election being a Rashtriya Lok Samta Party candidate. Political career Sharma was a ...

- Indian politician and a former member of parliament from Sitamarhi Lok Sabha constituency,

* Sunil Kumar Pintu - Member of parliament from Sitamarhi Lok Sabha constituency,

References

External links

* *
Political Map of Sitamarhi District
(showing subdistricts)
Sitamarhi Information Portal
{{Authority control Tirhut division Districts of Bihar Minority Concentrated Districts in India 1972 establishments in Bihar