Bihar

History and Geography

Bihar discovers discuss in the Vedas, Puranas, epics, etc., and was the primary landscape of actions of Buddha, and 24 Jain Tirthankars. Excellent kings of the Condition before the Religious era were Bimbisar, Udayin, who established the town of Pataliputra. Chandragupta Maurya and Emperor Ashoka and Maurya empire, the Sungs and the Kanvas. 

Then came the Kushan kings followed by Chandragupta Vikramaditya of the Gupta empire. Islamic kings created in-roads into the area during ancient interval. The first conqueror of Bihar was Mohammed-bin-Bakhtiar Khalji. The Tughluqs and then the Mughals followed the Khaljis.

One of the significant declares of the Native indian Partnership, Bihar is surrounded on the northern by Nepal, on the eastern by Western Bengal, on west by Uttar Pradesh and on the southern by Jharkhand. Bihar has a variety of waterways, the most essential of which is the Ganga. The other waterways are the Sone, Poonpoon, Falgu, Karmanasa, Durgawati, Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghara, etc.

Agriculture

Bihar has a complete regional place of about 93.60 lakh hectare, out of which only 56.03 lakh hectare is the net developed place and complete developed place being 79.46 lakh hectare. About 33.51 lakh hectare net place and 43.86 lakh hectare complete place get watering from different resources. Major meals vegetation are paddy, rice, maize and impulses. Main money vegetation are sugarcane, spud, cigarettes, oilseeds, red onion, chillies, jute and mesta. Bihar has informed woodlands place of 6,764.14 sq. km, which is 7.1 % of its regional place.

Industries

Major Sectors are: Train Cart Plants of Bharat Cart Restricted at Muzaffarpur and Mokamah; Oil Refinery of Native indian Oil Organization at Barauni; Manure Production Place of Hindustan Manure Organization Restricted (HPCL) at Barauni and Pyrites Phosphates & Substances Restricted (PPCL) at Amjhor; Pure cotton Rotating Generators at Siwan, Pandaul, Bhagalpur, Mokamah and Gaya; 13 glucose mills in personal market and 15 in the community market situated in southern and northern Bihar with a complete smashing potential of 45,000 TPD. 

In inclusion, distilleries at Gopalganj, Western Champaran, Bhagalpur and Riga (in Sitamarhi district); Completed Set Industry in Western Champaran, Muzaffarpur and Barauni; Jute Generators at Katihar and Samastipur; Medication Production Device at Hajipur; Food Handling Models as also Vanaspati Production Models at Aurangabad and Patna; besides Kalyanpur Concrete Restricted at Banjari, are significant in the commercial map of Bihar.

Transport

Roads: Bihar has around 13,000 km of pucca streets such as around 2,500 km of nationwide roadways and approximately 11,000 km of state roadways and significant region streets.

Railways: Bihar has a pretty excellent railway system. Interaction in northern Bihar is challenging as there is only one railway link at Mokamah. A few railway tracks linking essential locations like Muzaffarpur-Samastipur-Barauni-Katihar and Muzaffarpur-Chapra-Siwan have been turned into wide evaluate. The primary railroad junctions are at Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Katihar and Samastipur, etc.

Aviation: There is an terminal terminal at Patna, besides getting reasons in all significant regions of the Condition.


Tourist Centres

Remains of NalandaImportant locations of vacationer attention are Rajgir, Nalanda, Vaishali, Pawapuri (where Master Mahavira inhaled his last and accomplished Nirvana), Bodh Gaya, Vikramshila (ruins of Buddhist School of greater learning), Gaya, Patna (ancient town of Patliputra), Sasaram (tomb of Shershah Suri) and Madhubani (known for popular Madhubani Paintings).