Barsoi
| Barsoi बरसोई | |
|---|---|
| Town | |
  Barsoi Location in Bihar, India | |
| Coordinates: 25°39′05″N 87°55′21″E / 25.65139°N 87.92250°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Katihar |
| Elevation | 67 m (220 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 29,962 |
| Languages | |
| • Main | Maithili Hindi Surjapuri & Bengali |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 854317 |
| Telephone code | 06451 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Katihar |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Barsoi |
Barsoi is a town and nagar panchayat and serves headquarters of a subdivision in Katihar district in the state of Bihar, India. It is an important railway junction under Katihar division Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways.[1]
Barsoi Junction connects four routes as in the north Siliguri Junction on broad gauge and New Jalpaiguri Junction on broad gauge, on broad gauges Radhikapur near Bangladesh border on east and Katihar Junction on west and on south Kumedpur Junction, Kolkata.
Surjapuri is the main language spoken in Barsoi. Hindi, Bengali and Surjapuri are other languages of Barsoi. Movies are shot in the Shurjapuri language.
Divisions
Barsoi subdivision is divided into four community development blocks: Ka-dwa, Azamnagar, Barsoi and Balrampur.
Geography
The Barsoi subdivision is spread in around 1450 km square area. The climate of Barsoi has great diversity with high rainfall, mainly in the months of June to September. Minimum temperature in winter is around 10 °C, and maximum temperature in summer is around 42 °C.
Town structure
The subdivision headquarters is at the primacy of town Barsoi Bazar.
In 2016, the Government of Bihar amalgamated Sultanpur, Raghunathpur, Maulanapur, Bhagbarsoi and Dakaitpura villages to form Barsoi Nagar Panchayat.[2]
Barsoi railway station is 4 km from subdivision headquarters.
Education
Colleges
- R.D.S. College, Salmari
- B.D. College, Barsoi
- Balrampur College, Balrampur
- M S Ahsani Abdullah University
Governmental schools
- High School, Barsoi
- Project Girl's high School, Barsoi
- Middle School, Imadpur
- High School, Abadpur
- High School, Lagua
- High School, Molanapur
- High School, Salmari
- Kanya madhya vidyalaya
- Primary School, Dakaitpuja
- Middle School, Bhag Barsoi
- Middle School, Abadpur
- Little Flower Academy, Barsoi
- High School Khurial
- High School+2 Sudhani
- Middle School Sudhani
- High School B.Balrampur
Convent Schools
- Sir Syed public school, Barsoi Bazaar
- Children's Paradise School, Nimtala Chowk
- Sun rise School, Barsoi
- Ehsan Public School, Kalidaspur Via Barsoi Katihar
- Pioneer Public School
- New Public School, Bhudi Maa Sthan
- Simna Public School salmari
- K.G.N. Public School Salmari
- ITRC COMPUTER EDUCATION
See also
- Barsoi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2015 Mahboob Alam, CPI ML defeated BJP candidate by a margin of 22000 votes. Dulalchand Goswami, minister came third.
- Dr. Akbarul Hassan Faizee a resident of Mathurapur village of Barsoi Constituency have completed his M. Phil and PhD degrees from the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia , New Delhi.
- Dr. Akbarul Hassan Faizee a resident of Mathurapur village of Barsoi Constituency have Post Graduated in Sociology from AMU (Central University), Master in Human Recourse Management from Annamalai University, Master in NGO Management from Annamalai University, M. Phil (CW) from Delhi School of Economics, M. Phil in International Studies from Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), and PhD in International Studies from Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi.
References
- ↑ nr-est-frt-rly Archived April 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Notification" (PDF). Urban Housing and Development Department, Government of Bihar. February 26, 2016.
Coordinates: 25°39′05″N 87°55′21″E / 25.6515°N 87.9225°E
Resident of barsoi and choundi