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Chhapra (ISO: Chaparā) is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated near the junction of the Ghaghara River and the Ganges River . Chhapra grew in importance as a river-based market in the 18th century when the Dutch, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] French, Portuguese, and English established saltpeter refineries ...
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 93.16% of the population in the district spoke Bhojpuri, 4.45% Hindi and 2.28% Urdu as their first language. [ 29 ] Languages include Bhojpuri , a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 million speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.
Jai Prakash Mahila College also known as JPM, Chapra is a women's only degree college in Chhapra, Bihar. [1] It is a constituent unit of Jai Prakash University . [ 2 ] College offers Intermediate and Three years Degree Course (TDC) in Arts and Science.
Loknayak Jai Prakash Institute of Technology (LNJPIT), [2] is a government engineering college in Bihar.It is managed by the Department of Science and Technology, Bihar. [3] It is approved and recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education, it is one of [TEQUIPIII] colleges funded and taken care directly by central govt and is affiliated to the Bihar Engineering University of Patna.
Chhapra Municipal Corporation or Chhapra Nagar Nigam, is the civic body that governs Chhapra, a city of Bihar in India.Municipal Corporation mechanism in India was introduced during British Rule with formation of municipal corporation in Madras in 1688, later followed by municipal corporations in Bombay and Calcutta by 1762. [1]
Chhapra assembly seat had a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1965 till 2014 belonging to various parties. [4] Randhir Kumar Singh (RJD) won the by-poll from Chhapra in 2014. [5] [6] First time, a non-Yadav non-Rajput Dr. C. N. Gupta (BJP) won from assembly seat in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. [7] [8] [9]
Mohammad Shahabuddin (10 May 1967 – 1 May 2021) [1] [2] was a politician and former Member of Parliament from the Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar. [3] He was a former member of the National Executive Committee of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal. [4]
C.N. Gupta is a well known face in Chhapra and adjoining areas as a doctor (pathologist) and social worker. He joined RSS in 1967. He fought the Chhapra assembly by-election as an independent candidate in 2014 and came second in the by-election ahead of BJP candidate Kanhaiya Singh. [3]