Kahalgaon
Kahalgaon
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Kahalgaon (formerly known as Colgong during British rule) is a municipality Town and
Tourism
Vikramashila Mahavihara
Vikramashila (vill-Antichak) is located 13 km from Kahalgaon. It is famous for ancient
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary
Archaeological Museum, Vikramshila
Archaeological Museum, Vikramshila which was established by the Central government in 2004, It is situated at
Baba Bateshwar Nath Temple
It is situated on the banks of river Ganges and near to Vikramshila. This temple is an ancient Shiva temple with lots of devotees coming here in shravan month.
Tapas Dham temple/Shantibaba Temple
It is situated amid of Ganga River, 500 m away from the bank of the river.[clarification needed]
Shiv Kumari Mountain
Shiv Kumari Mountain is mainly divided in two parts — the small mountain and big mountain, there is a mosque on the big mountain and there is a Shiva temple on the small mountain. This mountain is located in the east direction of Kahalgaon Railway Station. This is the highest mountain of Kahalgaon.
History
Premedieval era
Kahalgaon is named after Kahol Rishi, the father of the saint named Ashtavakra (popularly known in the Mahabharata). Ashtavakra was one of the greatest saints who got his body Vakara from eight places so was named as Ashtavakra. He set free his father from jail of the king by winning the a contest on Shastra.
Medieval era
Kahalgaon was the education hub in the Middle Ages.
Modern era
In the vicinity of the town, now stands the thermal power project from NTPC, known as KhSTPP. The project has an installed capacity of 2340 MW developed in two stages. The first stage had 4 units of 210 MW capacity each and the second expansion had 3 units of 500 MW.
The arrival of NTPC in the town, marked the arrival of world-class infrastructure, healthcare and education, which would have taken years to reach to people otherwise. Kahalgaon now enjoys the luxury of the best. Education has taken a front-runner in the normal routine and the setup has also created enough jobs and businesses around itself. The townships of NTPC are wonderfully planned, with lush greenery. It has parks, shopping complexes, clubhouses, stadiums and transit camps apart from housing for employees. The peace that Kahalgaon has is remarkable.
How to reach Kahalgaon
By air
The nearest airport is
By train
Kahalgaon railway station, one of the oldest stations of Bihar, serves the Howrah–Kiul loop line. The city is situated on the broad-gauge loop line of Eastern Railway. Kahalgaon is well connected to all cities by train.
By road
Kahalgaon is connected by a network of national and state highways, along with district and rural roads. National Highway 80 (NH 80) runs from the Mokama–Farakka via Bhagalpur, Kahalgaon. It links directly with Patna, via Begusarai and Khagaria.
NTPC Kahalgaon
The National Thermal Power Corporation, popularly known as NTPC was also set up in Kahalgaon in the year 1985, the unit has been named Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Plant (KhSTPP) owing to its relatively large production capacity. The total installed capacity of the plant is 2340 megawatts, Stage-I: 840 MW and Stage-II: 1500 MW.
NTPC power plant uses Rajmahal Coal Fields of
In Art and Literature
An anonymous tomb on some rocks on the Ganga River nearby is the subject of a painting by J. M. W. Turner (Rocks at Colgong on the Ganges), an engraving of which, together with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839.[4]
Demographics
The Kahalgaon Nagar Panchayat has population of 33,700 of which 17,952 are males while 15,748 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.
Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 5221 which is 15.49% of total population of Kahalgaon Nagar Panchyat(NP). In Kahalgaon Nagar Panchayat, Female Sex Ratio is of 877 against state average of 918. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Kahalgaon is around 922 compared to Bihar state average of 935. Literacy rate of Kahalgaon city is 76.81% higher than state average of 61.80%. In Kahalgaon, Male literacy is around 81.64% while female literacy rate is 71.26%. Angika is the regional language and is spoken by majority. Hindi, and English are also spoken by different section of the population. Kahalgaon Nagar Panchayat has total administration over 6,315 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorize to build roads within Nagar Panchayat limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.
Religion
Hinduism is major religion in Kahalgaon city with 80.15% Hindus and 19.64% Muslims.[5]
See also
- Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary
- Vikramshila
- Bhagalpur Division
References
- ^ a b "52nd REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN INDIA" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2.
- ISBN 978-1-000-73250-4.
- ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1838). "picture". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839. Fisher, Son & Co.Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1838). "poetical illustration". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839. Fisher, Son & Co.
- ^ "Kahalgaon town Population 2022 - Sex Ratio, Population Density, Literacy".