• State Name: Bihar
• Area: 94,163 sq km
- Area-wise rank among States: 12th; States + UTs: 13th
- Bihar accounts for 2.86% of the total country’s area.
• Capital: Patna
• Official Language: Hindi
• State day: 22 March (Formation: 22/03/1912 )
• State Emblem:
This depicts the Bodhi Tree with Prayer beads, flanked by two swastikas. The base of the tree is brick with بہار , Urdu for “Bihar” inscribed on it.
• State Bird: House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
• State Tree: Peepal (Ficus religiosa)
• State Fish: Magur (Clarias batrachus)
Geographical Profile:
- Latitude: 24°-20′-10″ N to 27°-31′-15″ N
- North to South length: 345 Km
- Longitude: 83°-19′-50″E to 88°-17′-40″ E
- East to West length: 483 Km
- Rural Area: 92,257.51 sq. km
- Urban Area: 1,095.49 sq. km
- Total Area: 94,163.00 sq. km
- Height above Sea Level: 173 Feet
- Geographical Boundaries: West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal.
- International Border: Nepal ( Among five Indian states, viz. Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, Bihar share the longest border with Nepal.)
Map of Bihar:
Bihar Forest Profile
- Governance Profile:
• Governor: Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar (41st Governor of Bihar)
• Chairman of Legislative Council: Shri Devesh Chandra Thakur
• Deputy Chairman of Legislative Council: Shri Ram Chandra Purbey
• Speaker of Legislative Assembly: Shri Nand Kishore Yadav
• Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly: Shri Narendra Narayan Yadav
• Chief Minister: Shri Nitish Kumar
• Deputy Chief Minister: Shri Vijay Kumar Sinha and Shri Samrat Choudhary.
• Leader of Opposition Legislative Council: Smt. Rabri Devi
• Leader of Opposition Legislative Assembly: Shri Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
• Legislature
- Bicameral
- Legislative Council 75
- Legislative Assembly 243
• Council Of Ministers
1) Shri Nitish Kumar
Chief Minister
Other Portfolios:
- General Administration
- Home
- Cabinet Secretariat
- Vigilance
- Election and all such departments which are not alloted to anyone
2) Shri Samrat Choudhary
Deputy CM of Bihar
Portfolios:
- Finance
- Commercial Tax
3)Shri Vijay Kumar Sinha
Deputy CM of Bihar
Portfolios:
- Road Construction
- Mines & Geology
- Art, Culture & Youth
4) Shri Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
Portfolios:
- Water Resources Department
- Parliamentary Affairs Department
5) Shri Bijendra Prasad Yadav
Portfolios:
- Energy Department
- Planning and Development Department
6) Shri Prem Kumar
Portfolios:
- Co-operative Department
- Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department
7) Shri Shrawan Kumar
Portfolios:
- Rural Development Department
8) Shri Santosh Kumar Suman
Portfolios:
- Information Technology Department
- Minor Water Resources
- Disaster Management Department
9) Shri Sumit Kumar Singh
Portfolios:
- Science & Technology
10) Shri Sunil Kumar
- Education
11) Smt Renu Devi
- Animal and Fish Resources Department
12) Shri Mangal Pandey
- Health Department
- Agriculture Department
13) Shri Niraj Kumar Singh
- Public Health Engineering Department
14) Shri Ashok Choudhary
- Rural Works Department
15) Smt Lesi Singh
- Food & Consumer Protection Department
16) Smt Sheela Mandal
- Transport Department
17) Shri Madan Shani
- Social Welfare Department
18) Shri Nitish Mishra
- Department of Industries
- Tourism Department
19) Shri Maheshwar Hazari
- Information and Public Relations Department
20) Shri Nitin Nabin
- Urban Development and Housing
- Law
21) Shri Janak Ram
- SC and ST Welfare Department
22) Shri Jayant Raj
- Building Construction Department
23) Shri Jama Khan
- Minority Welfare Department
24) Shri Ratnesh Sada
- Prohibition Excise & Registration
25) Shri Santosh Kumar Singh
- Labour Resource
26) Shri Surendra Mehta
- Sports
27) Shri Kedar Prasad Gupta
- Panchayti Raj
28) Shri Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
- Revenue and Land Reforms
29) Shri Krish Nandan Paswan
- Sugarcane Industries
30) Shri Hari Sahani
- BC & EBC Welfare Department
Judiciary:
High Court: Patna
Chief Justice: Hon’ble Krishnan Vinod Chandran
Number of District Courts: 37
Administration:
- Chief Secretary: Shri Brijesh Mehrotra
- Director General of Police: Shri Rajwinder Singh Bhatti
- Divisions: 9
- Districts: 38
- Sub-Divisions: 101
- Community development blocks (CD Blocks): 534
- Panchayats: 8,406
- Number of Revenue Villages: 45,103
- Number of Towns: 199
- Statutory Towns 139
- Non-Statutory Towns 60
- Police Stations: 853
- Civil Police Stations: 813
- Railway Police Stations: 40
- Police Districts: 44
- Civil Police District: 40
- Railway Police District: 4
Demographic Profile
(Census: 2011 data)
- Population of Bihar: 104,099,452
- Rural Population: 92.3 million i.e. 88.7%
- Urban Population: 11.8 million i.e. 11.3% or Urbanization Ratio
- District with the highest Population: Patna
- District with the lowest Population: Sheikhpura
- Population density: 1106 persons per sq. km. (1st among States and 6th among States+UTs)
- District with the highest Population density: Sheohar (1880)
- District with the lowest Population density: Kaimur(488)
- Decadal Growth rate (2001-11): 25.42%
- District with highest decadal Growth rate: Madhepura (31.12%)
- District with lowest decadal Growth rate: Gopalganj (19.02%)
- Sex Ratio: 918
- District with the highest sex ratio: Gopalganj (1021)
- District with lowest sex ratio: Munger(876)
- Child Sex Ratio: 935
- Crude Birth Rate: 26.4
- Infant Mortality Rate:35
- Child Mortality Rate: 9
- Under Five Mortality Rate: 41
- Neo-Natal Mortality Rate: 28
- Peri-Natal Mortality Rate: 24
- Total Fertility Rate:3.2
- Maternal Mortality Rate: 149
- Literacy Rate: 61.8%
- Male literacy rate:71.2%
- Female literacy rate:51.5%
- Highest Female literacy rate: Munger (65.53%)
- Highest Male literacy rate: Rohtas (85.29%)
- Lowest Female literacy Rate: Saharsa (42.73%)
- Lowest Male literacy Rate: Katihar (60.99%)
- Rural literacy rate: 59.78%
- Urban literacy rate: 76.86%
- District with the highest literacy rate: Rohtas(73.4%)
- District with lowest literacy Rate: Purnia(51.1%)
■ Poverty Ratios (using Tendulkar Committee methodology) in 2011-12 of Bihar
- Rural: 34.1; Urban: 31.2
- Combined: 33.7 ( All India: 21.9)
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