Manihari is a town and a notified area

Notified area

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 in Katihar district

Katihar District

Katihar district is one of the thirty-seven districts of Bihar state, India, and Katihar town is the administrative headquarters of this district...

 in the India

India

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n state

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 of Bihar

Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

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Geography

Manihari is located at 25.35°N 87.63°E. It has an average elevation of 31 metre

Metre

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s (101 feet).
This place is well known for the Manihari ghat, which connects it to Sahibganj, which is also situated on the bank of the river Gangaes.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Manihari had a population of 21,783. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Manihari has an average literacy rate of 44%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 52%, and female literacy is 35%. In Manihari, 19% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Geography

The town is located on the banks of the river Ganges where it meets the river Koshi

Koshi River

The Kosi River or Koshi —also Saptakoshi for its seven Himalayan tributaries—is a trans-boundary river flowing through Nepal and India. Some of the rivers of the Koshi system, such as the Arun, the Sun Kosi and the Bhote Koshi, originate in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China...

, thus making the town prone to flooding every year. Manihari is a small border town between the stateBihar

Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

 and Jharkhand

Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

. Sahebganj

Sahebganj

Sahebganj is the district headquarters of Sahebganj district of Jharkhand state, India.Sahebganj means a place of masters . The place is likely to have gotten its name because a number of English and other European people lived and worked in and around the railway station during the British Raj...

 is the district town of Jharkhand which is 9 km from Manihari (Nautical mile distance), there is regular ferry service between Manihari and Sahibganj. Manihari is connected by railway link on metre gauge (MG

Metre gauge

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). There are few local trains which run between Manihari and Katihar

Katihar

Katihar is a town situated in the north eastern part of Bihar state in India. It is headquarters of Katihar district.- Geography :Katihar is located at...

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Manihari Ghat

Before Farakka Barrage

Farakka Barrage

Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganges River, located in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly from the border with Bangladesh near Chapai Nawabganj District. Construction was started in 1961 and completed in 1975. Operations began on April 21, 1975. The barrage is about long...

 was constructed, people going to the Darjeeling Hills or North Bengal from Kolkata, used to travel by a Broad Gauge train to Sakrigali Ghat and then cross the Ganges by steamer. On the other side of the river at Manihari Ghat, they used to take a metre gauge train to Siliguri.Once Farakka Barrage was constructed, this route became redundant. There still is a ferry service linking Manihari Ghat with Sahebganj.

Education

There are two high schools and few gov schools, and private school.or college.
1.B.P.S.P.Senior Secondary School
2.P.L.S.N. Girls Senior Secondary School
Principal-Md.Sayeedur Rahaman
Teachers-Chandrabali Prasad(Sosc),Surendra prasad(Sosc),Bijay Mandal(Eng),Rashmi Nisha(Hin),Anjana Kumari(Snk),Kamlesh choudhary(Math),Rajesh Kumar(Sosc),Rijwanul Haque(Urd),Tauwab Ahmad(sc)
3.s.s.s.mandir school(p)
4.national public school(P)
5.s.j.pandey sanskrit vidaylaye
6.rameshwer yadav manihari college manihari.(gov and pvt)
7.b.m.s.(p)
8.grukul puplic school.(p)
9.n.p.s(p)