Sitamarhi is a town and the district headquarters of Sitamarhi district

Sitamarhi District

Sitamarhi is one of the districts of Bihar state, India, and Sitamarhi town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Sitamarhi district is a part of Tirhut Division.- History :...

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History

The name Sitamarhi, derives from "Sitamahi", meaning "hermitage of Sita". It is the mythological birthplace of Sita

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This district is often bereaved by natural calamities. One of the most devastating is excess flooding due to mis-management of the banks by both civilians and government officials. This town was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1934

1934 Bihar earthquake

The 1934 Bihar earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in India's history. Some 30,000 people were said to have died. Munger and Muzaffarpur were completely destroyed. This 8.4 magnitude earthquake occurred on January 15, 1934 at around 2:13 PM and caused widespread damage in the northern...

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It is currently a part of the Red Corridor

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Geography

Sitamarhi is located at26.6°N 85.48°E. It has an average elevation of 56 metres (183 feet). sitamarhi district is drained by rivers such as baghmati, aghwara, lakhandei (lakshman rekha), manusmara & few other minor streams. the northern portion of sitamarhi falls in foothills of himalaya. here elevation increases as one goes from south to north.The ground is not rocky and there are no mountains. Land is suitable for growing crops.There is no water scarcity as ground water is present.

Climate

Sitamarhi has a monsoon type of climate. Like most parts of northern India it receives maximum rainfall by southwestern monsoon.

Connectivity

Sitamarhi is well connected by road network from the adjoining districts.Major roads are NH 77 & NH 104. However construction work on Nh 77 is going on for making it double lane. Sitamarhi is situated on "Darbhanga Narkatiyaganj" railway line with sitamarhi being the biggest railway station of district.Another broad gauge line between Muzaffarpur & Sitamarhi is under construction. Sitamarhi has direct train service for Varanasi,Kanpur & New Delhi.

Market

Sitamarhi market is good for shopping daily use household and iron products. District is having good cultivation of sugar cane, spices, wheat and green vegetables. It is also having one sugar factory, fertilizer factory and distillery. Besides that new industry are being setup in Industrial Area and one big liquor bottling plant is also in construction. Town is having 6 picture hall few of them are having Dolby sound and AC with them. Market price is very low in compare to other districts and is also having variety of veg & Non Veg shops.Mahanth sah chowk is the main centre of market. Gudri bazar is known for spice market and fresh fish. Lohapatty is the wholesale market of iron goods whereas Sonapati is the place of Goldsmith. Mahavir Asthan is famous for Lord Hanuman temple which has a huge crowd on Tuesday & Saturday. The city has a sufficient market to cater the daily needs of the people. Sitamarhi is one of the best rising and educated district of Bihar.

All the products available in market comes from various part of India as market consumption is very high due to supply in Nepal and villages. Markets near to Nepal border has abundance of Chinese & foreign products. One can find digital, electronic, chocolates,Cloths, Plastic Items and many more foreign products in the local market. Many youths in the border area are involved in smuggling items from Nepal because the international border is not fenced. However nowadays security check is very high due to employment of different units of Indian Army as well as huge number of Border Security Force who came after getting regular disturbance form maobadi(Nepal Terrorist Group)in the border area.

Sitamarhi celebrates festival like Ram Naomi,Holi,Chat Puja, Hanuman Jayanti, New Year,Durga Puja, Ramjan,Eid,Balbhardra Jayanti, Sita janm utsav in very
beautiful way. River name Lakhandai crossing the town has been encroached by the people and seems like a drain. More of the area in the town is conjugated due to business activity. district is having several private & government banks & ATMs. District has given several saints like Shri Y K sudarshan & several ministers in the state government. Several local and national group works in the area since long time like Vyahut yuva Munch(Mr Sumit Kumar), Lions Club (Umesh Gupta), marwari Yuva Munch,Red Cross (Umesh Gupta)etc.It has Also a Popular market at Pupri.

Tourism

Sitamarhi has been pointed as a great Hindu religious site as per survey done on general maps of India. Some great places include punaura dham, jaankisthan and haleshwarsthan. This image is old as new construction has been done which is very nice and big and beautiful.

Punaura Dham

Punaura Dham is the birth place of Maa Sita, as per the Hindu mythology, Sita came out of a vessel when Raja Janak was ploughing field. Mithila state was facing the situation of drought, to overcome the drought, Raja Janak started ploughing field, when the plouging reached Punaura, the plough struck a vessel, due to the strike of the lower portion of the plough, the vessel broke and Sita came out of it. The place was the karmabhoomi for maharishi pundarik. Raja Janak offered him the new baby but he denied the offer. As he was a saint he had no consistency in living. Raja Janak brought the baby child to his palace in Janakpur. The baby was named Sita, as the lower portion of the plough had struck the vessel and she was born.
Punaura Dham has nothing of archaeological interest presently but as per the locals they saw some
buildings buried inside the ground during 1934 earthquake.
The popularity of Punaura Dham is famous among tourist.

Haleshwar Sthan

Haleshwar sthan is the place from where Raja Janak started ploughing the field. This place is having a Shiva temple, which is believed to be the first shiva-linga established in the state of Mithila. This place can be good for the archaeological survey, the old mandir parishar was having stone shikhara, which dates back to treta yuga. Presently, no archeological survey has been made, but the
manuscripts on the stones found are probably 7,000 years old. The Savan mela of this place is famous in northern Bihar and Nepal.

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Panth Paakar

This is the place which is believed to be the staying place of Maa Sita, when she was going from Sitamarhi to Janakpur. The place is having a big “PAAKAR” tree, it’s the belief of locals that the tree dates back to treta yug. Raja Janak sat here while in way.

Educational & Research Institutes

• Primary Schools – 1479
• Middle Schools – 619
• High Schools – 64
• Basic Schools – 9
• Madarsas – 26
• Sanskrit Vidyalayas - 20
• Graduate Colleges - 25
• Industrial Training Institutes – 1
• SC Residential High School – 1
• Project Girls High School - 17
• Kendriya Vidyalaya – 1
• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - 1

Schools

• N.S D.A.V public school
• Saraswati vidya mandir
• Delhi Public School
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• St.joseph's mission school
• Hellen's school
• Acharya sudarshan public school
• Jawahar Navodaya school
• Central School
• sacread heart school
• Mathura High School
• M.P High School
• laxmi high school

Colleges

• S.R.K Goenka college
• Thakur Yugal Kishore Singh College
• Sri Laxmi Kishori College
• Raghunath Jha College
• Ram Sewak Singh Women's College
• Sri Madhuri Yadav College
• RSS Science College
• RSS Mahila College
• JS College
• RNTS college

Politics

This district has produced leaders such as Late Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha

Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha

Thakur jugal Kishore Sinha was an Indian politician. He was elected to the 1st Lok Sabha from Muzaffarpur North-West Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar in 1953 . He was part of the freedom movement and also known as the Father of cooperative movement in Bihar...

  (freedom fighter, member of 1st Lok-Sabha and popularly known as the father of co-operative movement in Bihar), and Late Smt.Ram Dulari Sinha

Ram Dulari Sinha

Ram Dulari Sinha is a former Indian parliamentarian and Union Minister. She was one of the few women Governors of India, and was appointed the role of Governor of Kerala from 23 February 1988 to 12 February 1990....

(freedom fighter, member of Indira Gandhi's Council of Ministers and Rajiv Gandhi's successively.) Late Smt. Ram Dulari Sinha later became the Governor. She was also elected Vice-Chairman of the International Labour Organisation.Currently the leadership of Sitamarhi and adjoining areas is held by Dr.Madhurendra Kumar Singh
of Congress Party who is a prominent Leader of the State Congress and is the Ex-President of District Congress Committee and has held several important positions in the Congress Party.

Arjun Rai is the present Member of Parliament(Lok Sabha) from Sitamarhi Lok Sabha Constituency from JD(U). While Sunil Kumar Alias Pintu is Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from BJP.

External links

• Sitamarhi News
• http://news.daylightonline.com/2005-03/Muzaffarpur.html