Dalsinghsarai

Dalsinghsarai
—  city  —
Coordinates
Country	India
State	Bihar
District(s)	Samastipur
Population	20,181 (2001[update])
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 848114

Dalsinghsarai is a city and a notified area in Samastipur district in the state of Bihar, India.

Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census,^[1] Dalsinghsarai had a population above 50,000. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Dalsinghsarai has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 69% and, female literacy is 51%. In Dalsinghsarai, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age. The river traversing the city is Balan. Dalsinghsarai, also known as Dalsingsarai misnomerly, is a sub-division of Samastipur district.

Railways

Dalsingsarai is Bihar's first railway station and well connected to the Broad gauge line in East Central division of Indian Railways. The name of the station is Dalsingsarai. The area being a cash crop and vegetable rich, the railway is the important means of transporting the cash crops to the different parts of country.

Roadways

Dalsingsarai is well connected by road. This town is situated on National Highway No.-28, which links Barauni (Bihar) to the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, via Gorakhpur.

Crops

The soil of Dalsingsarai is rich alluvial and is excellent for rabi crops. The place is known for its cash crops—tobacco, rice (paddy), wheat, chillies, pulses and vegetables. Once this place was famous for production of red and green chillies in North India. Due to the huge production of best quality tobacco here, During the British rule, the Virginia tobacco company established a cigarette factory here,which has closed down post Independence of India,due to some labour problem.Other than that all types of seasonal vegetables are grown here.The green vegetables are supplied to other parts of the state. Dalsingsarai is famous for Green-Saag,bitter-gourd,tobacco,green chilly,bel(fruit). Famous sweets are Raskadam, Kheerkadam,Parwal Mithai etc.

The richness and fertility of the land of Dalsinghsarai made the area stand in the league of lychee growing area, at par with areas like Muzaffarpur and Dehradun.Mangoes are also grown here.

Dalsinghsarai Mandi Dalsinghsarai is a very prominent mandi in the district because of its locational advantage (located along NH-28) and having presence of highly fertile villages in its catchment. The major arrivals in this mandi include Bitter Gourd, Pointed Gourd, Cauliflower, Brinjal, Cucumber, Tomato, Potato, Peas and Okra. Among the fruits, Mango and Litchi are the most prominent. The major villages in the catchment of this mandi include Basadhia,chakhabib,turki, Madhaipur, Mirjapur, Nargaon, Vajitpur and Malpur. Villages located in 20 km radius of this mandi feed it round the year. The Dalsinghsarai APMC mandi located 3 km from the existing mandi can be considered for the collection center. This market yard is located over 19 acres of land and has three open auction platforms, three godowns and one administrative block.Visiting the mandi in the morning gives the real picture of your city.

Temples

Mahavir Temple is a very famous temple of Lord Hanuman, and is situated at the heart of the city. Some other famous temples including Red Temple constructed by late. Ramashray Prasad Chaudhary, Old Ram-Janki temple which was re-constructed after 1936 earthquake and Ram-Janki temple constructed by Late. Tirpit Narayan Chaudhary Temple situated in the village of Keota, which shows legend of Dalsinghsarai. One of the oldest temples is Kalisthan in Pagra village, Kalisthan at Gunj.Vidyapati Dham is one of the famous temples in Bihar.This temple was constructed by local resident of Vidyapati nagar,in remembrance of a great and famous scholar and poet vidyapati.Another very famous temple is brahmasthan situated near kanti factory just near the home of late pashupati babu home.There are lot of stories spread all over town and among villagers as well, regarding miracles of "brahma baba dev".so each and every day many devoties come regularly to pray.People say watever u pray brahma baba come to fulfill.Keota a village known as the heart of dalsinghsarai.

Schools

Dalsinghsarai is the centre of education:

Government schools

• C.H. School - Constructed by Ramashray prashad choudhary.
• Rashtriya High School
• Girls High School

CBSE affiliated school

• St.Joseph's Public School (up to +2)

Other private schools

• Sharda Gyan Niketan(oldest in the city)
• Success Mission School
• Tapovan Vidya Niketan
• Bal Sainik Vidyalaya
• Saraswati Shishu Mandir
• Residential Saraswati Siksha Sadan
• Aryabhatt Public School
• Central Public School
• Sunrise Public School
• Kids Park (A Complete Play School) Ist of its kind in the city
• Gyanodya Awasiya Vidyalaya

College

There are only two colleges in Dalsinghsarai

• Ramashray Baleshwar College(R.B. College)
• St. Joseph's Mishri Singh Vishwamohinee Memorial Teachers' training college(B.ed).
• Ranjan ITI college in Goshpur just besides the city.

There are another Industrial Training Institute being established.

Places of interest

"Ramashray Nagar" - Ramashray Nagar established by late Ramashray Prasad Choudhary.He contributed lots for Dalsingh Sarai like School, college, Cinema Hall (in 1947),petrol pump, Dalsingh sarai Market, coldstorage etc. In other words we can say that he was founder of modern Dalsingh Sarai.

Vidyapatinagar: The place, situated on bank of River Ganges, 10 km from Dalsingsarai. It is named after the most revered Maithili poet Vidyapati. It is believed to be the place where the renowned Poet breathed his last in search of Lord Shiva. As the myth goes, Lord Shiva was associated with him since long in the guise of his servant named Ugna. It is said that he wanted to breathe his last at the banks of Ganges and was travelling towards it. But due to his failing health, he was not able to reach the banks of Ganges and so the river changed its course to reach him. There is a big old temple of Lord Shiva known as Vidyapati Dham . A big fair is held on the occasion of Basant Panchami.

Jageshwar Asthan: It is an old Shiva temple in Narhan Estate situated about 15 km from Dalsingsarai. Legend has it that one Smt. Jageshwari Devi, daughter of Bhaw Mishra, the Vaidya of Narhan Estate, constructed the temple hence the name. There is a magnificent old Building of Narhan Estate, which has been very prominent in this area since the Mughal period.

Pand Deeh It is said the during their exile the Pandavas rested for few days in the village called as Pand.^[2] The is one grand Shiva temple. Currently a team of ASI is doing excavation there. Some earthen ware of Gupta perion have been excavated.

History

The construction of the first line of the present North Eastern Railway was from Bazatpur (Dalsinghsarai) on the North bank of the Ganga, to Darbhanga with the name of Tirhut Railway. This 51-mile (82 km) long section was built by Col. F.S. Stanton in a record time of 65 days from the day of its conception for moving grain and cattle fodder to the famine hit populace of Darbhanga area. Though, the first train at Darbhanga on April 15, 1874, the line was officially opened on April 17, 1874 by the Lt. Governor of Bengal. It was the Bihar's first railway station because of the Cigratte Factory of East India company's by British. Cigratte factory is one of the great asset of the Bihar. It is presentlly owned by the Choudhary family; it was built by British in approx. 1905.

Leaders

The leadership and the socially reputed personalties of Dalsighsarai have done deeds of great repute, it is as a result of an active leadership, that the area saw peace even during the most criminalized period of Bihar. The area boasts of leaders and people who endowed social responsibility, like Late Babu Ramshray Parasad Choudhary who gave the town a quality school namely C.H.E. School and bestowed the town with quality higher education by establishing R.B. Collage,and Late Babu Baleshwar Choudhary has contributed 50,000 rupees in the construction of R.B collage.Late Ramshray Prasad Choudhary has contributed 20 acres of land for the construction of R.B Collage. Late Ramashray prasad choudhary was the joint counsellor of Bihar and Bengal(3 times) during the British raj.The present state J.D.U. Party president Mr. Vijay Choudhary also hails from keota in Dalsighsarai. The town has seen and chosen three different leaders as their representative at the state assembly, for the longest time are Shree Yashwant kumar Choudhary (3 times M.L.A) Shree Vijay Choudhary (3 times M.L.A) and Shree Ram Lakhan Mahto (M.L.A.). All the three leader have contributed to the growth of the town religiously.

References

1. ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 
2. ^ http://dalsinghsarai.blogspot.com/

Coordinates: 25°40′00″N 85°50′00″E / 25.6667°N 85.8333°E / 25.6667; 85.8333