Sukhpur
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Sukhpur is village in North Bihar. A perfect blende of Caste and religion.. education and agriculture.. Sukhpur is endowed with fertile alluvial soil as it lie in the plain of koshi. Climate of village is mild and monsoon type. Summer is not so hot as compared to northern India mainly due to its proximity to the eastern Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

 but temperature goes down to as cold as 8C during Winter. Rain is mainly concentrated from May to September. The village receives plenty of rain (more than 250 cm per year). Sukhpur is also flood prone due to shifting nature of River Koshi however till now the village has not yet taste the floood water except for its outskirt. Sukhpur is well organized in the sense that the region residing for living & agriculture is separated from each other.

Most of the villagers are engaged in cultivation. On an average three crops are taken per year from a same piece of land. Major crops include rice
Rice
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, wheat mung, and corn. Mango and Litchi are also major horticulture crops. Mango is major contribution to the farmers income.
Three of major land portion namely "Lalbagh" "Kalibagh" & "Mamabagh" is occupied by mango trees yielding huge amounts of mangoes.

Castes and to some extant untouchables are still prevalent in the village. The morphology of village is semi-clustered. The main religions observed by villagers are Hinduism
Hinduism
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 and Islam
Islam
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with the Hindu population further divided into many castes and creeds. There is segregation based on the caste system and each segment of the village is known by tola such as Dayodhi , Gauripur & some of the region of Purabia Tola where Rajputs and Maithil Brahmin reside, mushari where dalit lives.

Sukhpur is linked to Supaul, and Saharsa town of the region by road. Neighbouring villages are Parsanma, Parsoni, Bero, Malhni, Balha, Solhni and Nawhatta.

The education system of Sukhpur is much contributing for many villages since it has 6 schools namely "Sukhpur High School", "Sukhpur Middle school", "Prathmic School", "Harijan Middlie School", "Sanskrit Madhya Vidyalaya" & "Girls Middle School". Sukhpur high school has been the flag bearer for education in the region ..providing quality school education not only to Sukhpur but all its surrounding villages. Apart from the education the high school has got a very beutiful play ground.. providing the villegers to engage in sports mainly Cricket,football, volleyball..

"Tilheshwar", temple of lord Shiva is the most famous place of this village. so many visitors come to this place. visitors likes to visit this temple in "Saawan". This place is very peacefull and bounded by natural scenery. Durgapuja is the most import festival where grand melaa is organised in the village.
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