Tirhut Division or Tirhut Commissionary is an administrative-geographical unit of Bihar in India. Muzaffarpur is the headquarters of the division. It comprises six districts: Muzaffarpur, West Champaran (headquartered at Bettiah), East Champaran (headquartered at Motihari), Vaishali (headquartered at Hajipur), Sitamarhi and Sheohar.[1]
Tirhut division | |
|---|---|
Division | |
 Location of Tirhut division in Bihar | |
| Coordinates: 26°04′N 85°27′E / 26.07°N 85.45°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State |  Bihar |
| Established | 1908 |
| Headquarters | Muzaffarpur |
| Districts | Vaishali Sheohar Sitamarhi Muzaffarpur East Champaran West Champaran |
| Government | |
| • Commissioner | Saravanan Meena |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17,141 km2 (6,618 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 21,410,544 |
| Website | Official website |
The administrative head of Tirhut division is a commissioner, a senior officer of the Indian Administrative Service. Tirhut's present divisional commissioner is Saravanan Meena.[2]
The Tirhut Division has 18 subdivisions, 99 blocks, 1788 Gram Panchyat & 1572 villages.[1]
Khudiram Bose, Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi, Bhagwan Das, Juba Sahni, Raj Kumar Shukla, Ramdayalu Singh, Mathura Singh, Binda Babu and Mahesh Babu were some of the freedom fighters from Tirhut.
Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle for independence from the East Champaran or Motihari district of this Division in 1916. It was the Karma Bhoomi of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Acharya J.B. Kripalani and Jayprakash Narayan.
Motihari is the birthplace of famous writer George Orwell.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "About The Division | Tirhut Division Muzaffarpur | India". Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Shri Saravanan M (I.A.S.) | Tirhut Division Muzaffarpur | India". Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ Crick, Bernard (2004). "Eric Arthur Blair [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
External links
edit- Official website Archived 16 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine