Bakhtiarpur
Sign in to saveBakhtiyarpur is a notified area and town near Patna City in the Patna district in the state of Bihar, India. Bakhtiyarpur is under the Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency), and is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Bihar in Patna District under the Barh sub-division of Bihar. It is a major railway junction in Danapur railway division, ECR. The incumbent Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar belongs to Bakhtiyarpur.
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- Bakhtiyarpur
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- BKP ( bce patna )
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- City
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- Jagdamba temple.jpg
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- 300px
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- Maa Jagdamba temple
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- India Bihar
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- Location in Bihar, India
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- Country
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- State
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- Bihar
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- District
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- Patna
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- Current MLA
- Settlement.leader_name
- Aniruddh Kumar Yadav
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- Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji
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- Municipal council
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- Metric
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Bakhtiyarpur is a notified area and town near Patna City in the Patna district in the state of Bihar, India. Bakhtiyarpur is under the Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency), and is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Bihar in Patna District under the Barh sub-division of Bihar. It is a major railway junction in Danapur railway division, ECR. The incumbent Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar belongs to Bakhtiyarpur.
==Demographics== India census, Bakhtiarpur had a population of 53,223. Males constitute 52.5% of the population and females 47.5%. Bakhtiarpur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the state average of 61.8%; with 78% of the males and 61.1% of females literate. About 18% of the population is under 6 years of age. Sex ratio is at 903 against the state average of 918. The majority of the residents follow Hinduism (approximately 95%), but there is a scant presence of Sikhs and Jains (0.01%) and approximately 5% of Muslims.