Mohania
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Mohania is a city in Kaimur district
Kaimur District
Kaimur district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. The district headquarters are located at Bhabua. The district occupies an area of 3363 km² and has a population of 1,284,575 ....

 in the state 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....

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is the sub-division of Kaimur district.

Geography

Mohania is located at 25.04°N 83.70°E. It has an average elevation of 76 metres (249 feet).

Mohania is divided into wards. Here is the ancient famous Satti Devi mandir near railway station, White Hanuman mandir. Hanuman mandir is the biggest temple at station road. Here is a beautiful stadium near M.P. College. In the south, there is a river called Durgauti
Durgavati River
The Durgavati River which flows through Kaimur district in the Indian state of Bihar, is a tributary of the Karmanasa.-Course:...

. Mohania is the hub of transport routes in Kaimur district.

Demographics

India census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Mohania had a population of 30,507. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Mohania has an average literacy rate of 86%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 91% of the males and 59% of females literate. 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

The mother tongue of almost all the people in Mohania is Bhojpuri.

Train

Mohania railway station is mostally known as "Bhabua Road" on the Howrah-New Delhi Grand Card in Mughalsarai region.

The statiion code is "BBU"
| Train Number | Train Name | Origin | Destination | Frequency (inbound/outbound)
2801/02 Purushottam Express New Delhi Puri Daily
2397/98 Mahabodhi Express New Delhi Gaya Daily
2311/12 Kalka Mail Kalka Hawrah Daily
2381/82 Poorva Exp New Delhi Hawrah JN 3 days
2818/17 Jharkhand Express New Delhi Hatia 3 days
3009/10 Doon Exp Dehradoon Hawrah JN Daily
3151/52 Sealdah Exp Jammu Tawi Kolkata Daily
2875/76 Neelanchal Exp New Delhi Puri 3 days
5109/10 BudhPurnima Exp Varanasi Jn Rajgir 3 days
2143/44 Dikshabhumi Exp Gaya Nagpur Weekly
9305/06 Dikshabhumi Exp Indore Jn Hawrah -
2175/76 Chambal exp Hawrah Gwalior -
2177/78 Chambal exp Hawrah Agra ct -


The Other main trains are
  • Mumbai Mail,
  • Asansol-Ahmedabad Exp,
  • Jodhpur Exp,
  • Garib Nawaj Exp,
  • Ranchi Varanasi Exp
  • Ranchi Garib Rath Exp
  • Jharkhand swarana jayanti Exp
  • Gaya Chennai Exp
  • Ludhiyana Dhanbad Exp


There is an proposed railway line which will connect from Arrah to Mundeshwari via ramgarh - Mohania - Bhabua

The town is 180 km from Patna and 60 km from Varanasi by road.

Road

National Highway 2 (G.T. Road) crosses through the heart of the city.

National Highway 30 originates from this city and connect with the capital Patna via Arrah. Apart from these, there are also a few State Highways in the city. Mohania is connected to Bauxar via Ramgarh from the south and with Bhabua (district capital, Audhaura, Bhagwanpur) from the south.

Mohania Sub-division is situated on Gaya-Mughalsarai Section of Grand Chord Railway line; the railway station is called Bhabua Road. The district headquarter is located at a distance of 14 km southward from the railway station or the G.T. Road that is Bhabua.

Village of Manoj Tiwari A very popular Bhojpuri actor, singer is atarwalia. It is also 4 km from Mohania on NH 30 to Patna.

The famous temple mundeshawari devi is situated in kaimur district.The route for this temple goes through the mohania.If someone wants to go to this temple then he should arrive at Bhabua road station first then he may take the bus to go to mundeshawari devi temple.

The nearest Airport is at Varanasi.

Singh Sahib a famous socialist of Mohania.

Doctors

  • Dr Kiran Singh, Aditya Diagonastic center, GT Road Mohania
  • Dr Santosh Kumar Singh, Aditya Diagonastic center, GT Road Mohania
  • Dr Vinod Singh, Station Road, Mohania
  • Dr Bal Mukund Singh, Station Road, Mohania
  • Dr Ravindra Narayan Singh, GT Road Mohania
  • Dr.Praveen Kumar Singh,Village-Sarai,P.O.-Jandahan,P.S.-Ramgarh

Banks

  • State Bank of India
    State Bank of India
    The State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...

    , Samiti Bazar, Mohania
  • Punjab National Bank
    Punjab National Bank
    Punjab National Bank , was founded in 1894 and is currently the second largest state-owned commercial bank in India ahead of Bank of Baroda with about 5000 branches across 764 cities. It serves over 37 million customers. The bank has been ranked 248th biggest bank in the world by the Bankers...

    , opp Kaimur Hotel, GT Road Mohania,
  • Union Bank of India
    Union Bank of India
    Union Bank of India is one of India's largest state-owned banks , is listed on the Forbes 2000. It has assets of USD 13.45 billion and all the bank's branches have been networked with its 1135 ATMs. Its online Telebanking facility are available to all its Core Banking Customers - individual as...

    , Ramgarh Road, Mohania
  • Oriental Bank, Ramgarh Road,Mohania
  • Bank of India
    Bank of India
    Bank of India is a state-owned commercial bank with headquarters in Mumbai. Government-owned since nationalization in 1969, It is India's 4th largest bank, after State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda. It has 3415 branches, including 29 branches outside India...

    , near Sahid baba, GT Road, Mohania
  • Bank of Baroda
    Bank of Baroda
    Bank of Baroda is the third largest bank in India, after the State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank and ahead of ICICI Bank. BoB is ranked 763 in Forbes Global 2000 list. BoB has total assets in excess of Rs. 3.58 lakh crores, or Rs. 3,583 billion, a network of over 3,409 branches and...

    , Station road, Mohania
  • Madhya Bihar Grameen Bank (Bhojpur rohtas Gramin), Ramgarh Road, Mohania
  • Bhabua Sasram Bank, Station road, Mohania

Hotels

  • Hotel Kaimur Bihar (Bihar Tourism) (A.C. Occupancy), GT Road, Mohania
  • Hotel Kamta sigasan, GT Road, Mohania
  • Rameshwaram Hotel, Station Road, Mohania
  • Radha Krishna Hotel Road Lines, in front of m.p.college ,GT Road MOHANIA
  • hotel Maheshwari, G.T. Road, Mohania

Worship Place

  • Mahawir swet Mandir (Hanuman), Chandani Chowk, Mohania
  • Mahawir swet Mandir (Hanuman), Station Road, Mohania
  • Sati Mandir, Station Road, Mohania
  • Kali Mandir, Near D.A.V. School, junior branch, Mohania.
  • Sahid Baba, near NH 30, GT road, Mohania
  • Mosque -1, Sabji Madi, Mohania
  • Mosque -2, Sabji Madi Railway crossing, Mohania

Bike

  • Hero Honda Bike, Station Road, Mohania
  • Bajaj 1, 2, Station Road, Mohania
  • TVS, Chandani Chowk, Mohania
  • Sujuki, Chandani Chowk, Mohania
  • Kinitik, GT road, Mohania
  • Rajdoot, GT road, rajesh

Tractor

  • Fargusson, GT road, Mohania
  • Taffe, GT road, Mohania
  • Swaraj, GT road, Mohania
  • Eicher, GT road, Mohania
  • Mahindra, opp Kaimur Hotel, GT road, Mohania
  • Balwan, GT road, Mohania

Mobile Network Providers

  • BSNL (Telephone Exchange,with landline)
  • Tata Docomo
  • Airtel
  • Aircel
  • Reliance
  • Reliance-Smart/Gsm
  • Tata Indicom
  • Idea
  • Vodafone
  • Virgin Mobile
  • STel
  • MTS

Education

International Organisations

TEDAP (Trust for Edupreneurship Development & promotion), New Delhi, has chosen Mohania as its hub for establishment of educational and social infrastructures in the near future. Numerous surveys for various social projects are under consideration. TEDAP has chosen Mohania because of its strategic location via; road, rail & air.

Schools

  • Navodaya Vidyalyaya (Govt.), Darwa, Mohania (now in Chaurasia on Ramgarh Road)
  • Sharda Brajraj High School (Govt.), Station Road, Mohania
  • Santi Balika High school (for Girls) (Govt.), Station Road, Mohania
  • R.B.S. School, Durga paraw, Mohania
  • D.A.V.School (Mohania lkg to 5 standard) GT Road NH 2, Mohania
  • D.A.V.School (Ratwar, Mohania 5 to 12 standard)
  • Mother Sakuntala School, GT Road NH 2, Mohania
  • Navdeep Academy, Darwa, Mohania
  • Adarsh School, Darwa, Mohania
  • S.P.P.S. School, Station Road, Mohania
  • T.P.S. School, Mohania
  • Point Education, Ramgarh road railway crossing, Mohania
  • A.K.I. vidyalaya-Primary public school
  • Urdu School, Sabji Mandi, Mohania
  • Urdu School, Railway crossing, Sabji Mandi, Mohania
  • Sanskrit School (Govt.), Court Road (Baouli pond, kachahari)
  • Khushi Kids Play School, G. T. Road, Mohania, Kaimur
  • Krishna Play School, Shivpur Colony, G.T Road, Mohania

Others Famous place

  • Chandani chowk ( Heart of Mohania )
  • Mundeshwari Gate
  • kaimur dairy
  • Civil Court (kachari)
  • Durgawati river
  • Rameshwaram Cinema Hall
  • Samiti Bazar
  • N.H. 2
  • N.H. 30
  • Ma sati mandir ( station road )
  • Durga Paraw
  • Jag jeevan Maidan
  • Maharana Pratap Stadium
  • Police Station
  • Power grid (320000kv)
  • Railway station (Bhabua road)
  • Post office - 2
  • Sub Division office
  • mahavir sathan bhabua
  • Idgah
  • Red cross & HIV center
  • Blood Bank
  • samudaik bhavan akhori
  • Dak Bunglow
  • dr bhrigunath singh memorial hospital &diagnostic centre mohania
  • dr mantu singh (dr bhrigunath singh memorial hospital)old check post mohania.

Occupation

The economy is dependent on agriculture, main occupation of the people here is Farming.
The two crops which are cultivated here are Paddy and wheat.
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