Gopalganj is one of the administrative districts in the Indian state of

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. The district headquarters is the town of Gopalganj, and the district is part of Saran Division. Major languages spoken are

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and

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Geography

Gopalganj district, India occupies an area of , comparatively equivalent to Spain's

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Demographics

According to the 2011 census Gopalganj district, India had a

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of 2,562,012, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. of which 1,267,666 are males while 1,294,346 are females. This gives it a ranking of 163rd in India (out of a total of

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). Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 449,530 which is 17.54% of total population of Gopalganj district. The district had a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.02%. Gopalganj had a

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of 65.47% and

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of 1021

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for every 1000 males, Gopalganj ranks first in terms of sex-ratio (1,021) against the state's 918. 6.35% of the population lives in urban areas. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 320,064 (12.49%) and 60,807 (2.37%) respectively. Gopalganj district had 411,930 households in 2011. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.09% of the population in the district spoke

, 1.85%

and 1.76%

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as their first language. Based on the 2011 census: * Population: 2,562,012 (2.62% of the state) * Density of population: 1260 * Men: 1,267,666 (49.48%) * Women: 1,294,346 (50.52%) * Urban population: 162,805 (6.35%) * Rural population: 2,399,207 (93.65%) * % of Scheduled castes: 12.49% * % of Scheduled tribes: 2.37%

Politics

Administrative Division

Gopalganj is divided into 2 sub-divisions, 14 Blocks, 4

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and 234 Gram Panchayats (village councils).

Urban councils

There are 4 urban areas in Gopalganj district. 3

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and 1

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. Although Hathua is also an urban area categorized as

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but not counted as municipality.

Village councils

There are 234 Gram Panchayats in Gopalganj district grouped into 14 blocks. There are a total of 1566 villages in Gopalganj District. There are 169 uninhabited villages (out of 1,566 total villages) in the district of Gopalganj.

Constituencies

Vidhan Sabha Constituencies

#Baikunthpur #Barauli #Gopalganj #Kuchaikote #Bhore #Hathua

Lok Sabha constituencies

# Gopalganj

Education

Initially, Gopalganj had little to offer in terms of good quality education to its residents. Presently Schools and colleges in the city are either run by the government or by private trusts and individuals. The schools are each affiliated with either the

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(CBSE), or the Bihar School Examination Board. English is the medium of instruction in most private schools; though government run schools offer both English and Hindi. The

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prepares boys for entry into the National Defence Academy. After completing their secondary education, which involves ten years of schooling, students typically enroll at

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in one of the three streams—

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. Imperial Public School (located in Hathwa) and DAV Thawe are the two best CBSE affiliated Schools along with Sainik School, providing quality education upto higher secondary level. One Government Engineering college And two Government polytechnic colleges started recently. Government teacher training college, para medical college and Govt ITI colleges setup recently. The Bihar Government announce that the new medical college and hospital will be located in Gopalganj.

Economy

Gopalganj district is famous for sugar industries. Now three Sugar factories are in running position situated in Sasamusa, Gopalganj City and Sidhwaliya. Two grain and sugar cane based ethanol plants recently started their production. Many rice mills, milk packaging plants, mustard oil plants, flour mills, cattle seeds plants, ply factory, egg layer firms, cement bricks plants and many more small scale industries are operational in district. Maximum people depends on agriculture mainly paddy, wheat, sugarcane and vegetables. Government has allotted industrial area in Gopalganj districts in which many factories are coming in next coming years. Gopalganj is at the top in Bihar and ranked among the ten highest districts in India among foreign exchanged currency because many people go to the Gulf countries through the district such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait and Yemen. Gopalganj is among top ten in per capita income in 38 Districts of Bihar, ranked 7 last year ranked by Niti Ayog.

Transport

NH 28 passes through Gopalganj one can find the multiple buses for commuting in state and other state.

Siwan Junction railway station Siwan Junction is an 'A' Category railway station in the city of Siwan, in the state of Bihar. It is an important railway station of the Varanasi railway division. This station is well connected to major cities of India like Kolkata, Amrits ...

is the main railway station for Gopalganj. Thawe station also serves local passenger other small station: Hathua Road, Sasamusa, Sipaya-(Serves Kuchaikote, Khutwania, Dubey Khariya, Vinod Khariya and nearby Villages), Tamkuhi Road and Gopalganj railway station. Now Thawe to Lucknow,thawe to taranagar and thawe to patna,thawe to gorakhapur train started.

Sabeya Airport Sabeya Airport is a military airport located at Kandh Gopi Village in Gopalganj district, India, Gopalganj District, Bihar. It is situated from Hathua. It is under control of Defence Ministry of India. But here is not any military and forces. H ...

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and Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport,

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are the nearest commercial airports. Sabeya Airport is now including in government UDAN scheme. Some preliminary paperwork and mapping of the airport area has started, and boundary identification will start.

Notable people

Ram Dulari Sinha Ram Dulari Sinha (8 December 1922 – 31 August 1994) was a nationalist, freedom fighter, Congress parliamentarian, Union Minister, and Governor. She was the first woman in Bihar to have master's degree and she was also the first woman from Bih ...

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, freedom fighter, former Union-Minister and Former Governor of Kerala, and freedom fighter, first Women to attain master's degree from Bihar and the first woman from Bihar to become Governor * Kamla Rai was Freedom Fighter and two times MLA of Gopalganj in 1952 and 1957. He was the first Chairman of Saran District Board in 1947. He was the Founder of Kamla Rai College, Gopalganj * Gorakh Rai was Freedom Fighter and renowned Politician.He was MLA from Barauni constituency in 1962 *

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* Abdul Ghafoor, former Chief Minister of Bihar, 1973 to 1975 *

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, former Chief Minister of Bihar and former Rail Minister of India *

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, 1st woman chief minister of bihar *

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, Chairman of the

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Anurag Kumar Anurag Kumar was the Director of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India from 2014–2020. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, and has served as the Chairperson of the Electrical Sciences Divi ...

, Director, IISc. *

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, actor * Alok Kumar Suman, MP * Subhash Singh (politician), Politician. *

Janak Ram Janak Ram is an Indian politician and current Minister of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare in the Government of Bihar. He is a former Member of the Lok Sabha from Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency), Gopalganj. He won the 2014 Indi ...

, Politician. * Amrendra Kumar Pandey, Politician. * Shambhu Sharan Shrivastava, Politician * Nagina Rai, Member of parliament from Gopalganj Lok Sabha. *

Avinash Tiwary Avinash Tiwary (born 15 August 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films and series. He had his first major roles in the television series ''Yudh (TV series), Yudh'' (2014) and in the film ''Tu Hai Mera Sunday'' (2016). He gained recogn ...

, Actor * Balraj Arpit, Former International Youth Representative of India at

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, Computer Scientist , Entrepreneur

References

External links

Official website
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