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The Ara Junction railway station is well connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network. It lies in between Buxar and Patna on Patna-Mughalsarai section of Howrah-Patna-Delhi main line which serves it with numerous trains. The Ara Bus Station is around 3 KM from the railway station.
Arrah (also transliterated as Ara) [4] is a city and a municipal corporation in Bhojpur district (formerly known as Shahabad district) in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the headquarters of Bhojpur district, located near the confluence of the Ganges and Sone rivers, some 24 miles (39 km) from Danapur and 36 miles (58 km) from Patna .
New Koilwar Bridge, (officially Vashishtha Narayan Setu) at Koilwar in Bhojpur is a 1.52 km long, 6-lane wide road bridge over the Sone river. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It connects Arrah with Patna , the capital of Bihar state in India and also carries Buxar-Arrah-Patna national highway (NH-922) .
In the year 1972, Shahabad District was bifurcated in two parts namely Bhojpur and Rohtas. Buxar was a subdivision of old Bhojpur District then. In 1992, Buxar became a separate district and presently the rest of Bhojpur District has now three sub-divisions – Ara Sadar, Jagdishpur and Piro. It shares its border with Uttar Pradesh in the north ...
Politician Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stone for the Arrah-Chhapra bridge in July 2010. He said that his wish was to connect the Bhojpuri-speaking districts. [citation needed] The bridge reduced the distance between Chhapra and Arrah from 130 km to 40 km. [10] This has greatly reduce the distance of Arrah, Aurangabad and Bhabhua districts from Siwan, Chhapra and Gopalganj districts. [11]
Dulaur is a small village in Jagdishpur block of Bhojpur district in Bihar, India.As of 2011, its population was 345, in 47 households. Located 2 km east of Jagdishpur, Dulaur is known as having been the site of the final battle between Kunwar Singh and the British army during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The Digha–Sonpur bridge (Hindi: दीघा-सोनपुर पुल) or J. P. Setu (Hindi: जेपी सेतु) [2] is a rail-cum-road steel truss bridge across river Ganga, connecting Digha Ghat in Patna and Pahleja Ghat in Sonpur. [3] [4] It is named after Indian independence activist Jayaprakash Narayan. It provides easy ...
Jagdishpur is a nagar panchayat town of the district Bhojpur of the state of Bihar in eastern India. [2] It was the capital of the eponymous Jagdishpur Raj ruled by Rajputs of the Ujjainiya clan. [3] One of its rulers, Kunwar Singh, was a major figure in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, considered the leader of the rebellion in Bihar. [4]