Gopalganj district, India

Gopalganj district, India
Gopalganj is one of the administrative districts in the Indian state of Bihar. The district headquarters is the town of Gopalganj, and the district is part of Saran Division. Major languages spoken are Hindi and Bhojpuri.
Geography
Gopalganj district, India occupies an area of , comparatively equivalent to Spain's Tenerife Island.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Gopalganj district, India had a population of 2,562,012, roughly equal to the nation of Kuwait or the US state of Nevada. 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 640). 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 population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.02%. Gopalganj had a literacy rate of 65.47% and sex ratio of 1021 females 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 Bhojpuri, 1.85% Hindi and 1.76% Urdu 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
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Administrative Division
Gopalganj is divided into 2 sub-divisions, 14 Blocks, 4 municipalities and 234 Gram Panchayats (village councils).
Urban councils
There are 4 urban areas in Gopalganj district. 3 Nagar Panchayat and 1 Nagar Parishad. Although Hathua is also an urban area categorized as Census town 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 Central Board for Secondary Education (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 Sainik School prepares boys for entry into the National Defence Academy. After completing their secondary education, which involves ten years of schooling, students typically enroll at Higher Secondary School in one of the three streams—Arts, Commerce or Science.
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 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), and Tamkuhi Road.
Now Thawe to Lucknow,thawe to taranagar and thawe to patna,thawe to gorakhapur train started.
Sabeya Airport, Jay Prakash Narayan Airport Patna and Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport, Gorakhpur 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
Kamla Rai (Freedom Fighter Politician Chairman Saran District Board Founder of Kamla Rai College)
Gorakh Rai (Freedom Fighter Politician Ex Mla Bhore)
Mukesh Kumar (cricketer)
Ram Dulari Sinha of Indian National Congress, 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
Abdul Ghafoor, former Chief Minister of Bihar, 1973 to 1975
Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar and former Rail Minister of India
Rabri Devi, thrice Chief Minister of Bihar, wife of Laloo Prasad Yadav
U. K. Sinha, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
Anurag Kumar, Director, IISc.
Pankaj Tripathi, actor
Alok Kumar Suman, MP
Subhash Singh (politician), Politician.
Janak Ram, Politician.
Amrendra Kumar Pandey, Politician.
Shambhu Sharan Shrivastava, Politician
Nagina Rai Member of parliament from Gopalganj Lok Sabha.
References
External links
Official website
Districts of Bihar
Saran division