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Doing Business in Bihar (व्यापार) and Economy (अर्थव्यवस्था)
Government (सरकार)
Capital: Patna (पट्ना)
Patna Business and Economy
Education (शिक्षा)
Society and culture (संस्कृति) (समाज और संस्कृति)
Industries
Major Industries are: Railway Wagon Plants (Muzaffarpur);
Oil Refinery of Indian Oil Corp; Fertilizer Manufacturing Plant, Cotton Spinning
Mills (Bhagalpur and
Gaya). Distilleries;
Finished Leather industry (उद्योग); Medicine Manufacturing; Food Processing, Kalyanpur Cement Limited at Banjari.
Education (शिक्षा) - News (ख़बर) and Media (मीडिया)
Roads: Bihar has around
13,000 km of pucca roads including around 2,500 km of national highways
and roughly 11,000 km of state highways and major district roads.
Railways: Bihar has a fairly good
railway network. Communication in north Bihar is difficult as there is
only one railway bridge at Mokamah. The main
rail junctions are at Patna, Muzaffarpur, ...
Aviation: international
(अंतरराष्ट्रीय) airport at Patna
Agriculture
Principal food crops are paddy, wheat, maize and
pulses. Main cash crops are sugarcane, potato, tobacco, oilseeds, onion, chillies, jute and mesta.
Districts (जिले) Localities (बस्तियों):
Bodhgaya
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Bihar (बिहार). Area : 94,163 sq km. Population: 82,878,796. Principal Languages:
Hindi
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One of the major states of the Indian Union, Bihar is bounded on the
north by Nepal, on the east by West Bengal, on west by Uttar Pradesh and
on the south by Jharkhand. Bihar has a number of rivers, the most
important of which is the Ganga.
Travel and tourism (पर्यटन) (यात्रा पर्यटन)
Rajgir, Nalanda,
Vaishali, Pawapuri (where Lord Mahavira breathed his last and attained
Nirvana ), Bodh Gaya, Vikramshila (ruins of Buddhist (बौद्ध), Gaya, Patna (ancient city of Patliputra) and Madhubani
Paintings.
Bihar finds mention in the Vedas
and was the main scene of activities of Buddha, and 24 Jain Tirthankars.
Great rulers of the State before the Christian era were Bimbisar, Udayin,
who founded the city of Pataliputra. Chandragupta Maurya and Emperor
Ashoka and Maurya dynasty, the Sungs and the Kanvas. Then came the
Kushan rulers followed by Chandragupta Vikramaditya of the Gupta
dynasty. Muslim rulers made in-roads into the territory during medieval
period. The first conqueror of Bihar was Mohammed- bin-Bakhtiar Khalji.
The Tughluqs and then the Mughals followed the Khaljis.
Source: India.gov.in Images: Google Earth
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