Barsoi

Barsoi
Town
Barsoi
Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 25°39′05″N 87°55′21″E / 25.65139°N 87.92250°E / 25.65139; 87.92250
Country  India
State Bihar
District Katihar
Elevation 67 m (220 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,44,133
Languages
 • Main Bengali
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 855102
Telephone code 06451
ISO 3166 code IN-BR
Lok Sabha constituency Katihar
Vidhan Sabha constituency Balrampur

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. Urdu,Hindi,and Bengali 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 main languages spoken here are Surjapuri, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali. Rice , wheat, jute and maize are some of the important crops grown here .Barsoi Railway station is one of the major junction of NFR railway.More than 100 trains passes through Barsoi. This is connected to all major Railway station of the country. 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 Barsoi has small market close to Railway station and Gumti.A big and broad market is at Baroi Bazar where you can get almost every thing ..[2]

Barsoi railway station is 4 km from subdivision headquarters.

Education

Colleges

  • R.D.S. College, Salmari
  • B.D. College, Barsoi
  • Balrampur College, Balrampur

Governmental schools

  • Adarsh Madhya Vidhalaya Barsoi Ghat
  • U. M. S. Barsoi Ghat
  • 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
  • High School Khurial
  • +2 High school sudhani,(Near-Panchayat Bhawan Sudhani)
  • Middle School Sudhani
  • High School B.Balrampur
  • Porla Middle School Porla
  • primary school choundi

Convent Schools

Jyoti Public School, Barsoi ghat, Barsoi, Katihar.

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
  • SSTA |Soft Skills Technologies Academy |SSTA Education (OPC) Private Limited.Opp. Central Bank Of India, Station Road Barsoi
  • New Career Public School, Bhudhi Maa Sthan, Barsoi Bazar,Barsoi
  • Barsoi Public School(Bhag Barsoi, Nehar Nagar Barsoi)
  • Porla Public school(Porla Chock
  • Sudhani Public School(At-Shahid Complex,south side sudhani)

See also

References

  1. ↑ nr-est-frt-rly Archived April 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "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 / 25.6515; 87.9225


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