Rohtas District | |
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 Location of Rohtas district in Bihar | |
| Country |  India |
| State |  Bihar |
| Division | Patna |
| Headquarters | Sasaram |
| Government | |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | Sasaram,Karakat,Buxar |
| • District Magistrate | Udita Singh,Indian Administrative Service |
| • Superintendent of Police | Roshan Kumar,Indian Police Service |
| • Divisional Forest Officer | Manish Kumar Verma,Indian Forest Service |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,847.82 km2 (1,485.65 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 2,959,918 |
| • Density | 770/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 73.37% |
| • Sex ratio | 914 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | |
| Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 821311 (Rohtas)[2] |
| ISO 3166 code | 06188 |
| Vehicle registration | BR 24 |
| Major highways | NH 2 |
| Website | Official District Website |
Rohtas District is one of the thirty-eightdistricts of Biharstate, India. It came into existence whenShahabad District was bifurcated into Bhojpur & Rohtas in 1972. Administrative headquarter of the district isSasaram.[3] Rohtas district has the highest literacy in Bihar. The literacy rate of Rohtas district which is 73.37% as per 2011 census is highest among all 38 districts of Bihar.
Rohtas district also has one of the highest forest cover among all 38 districts of Bihar.[citation needed]
The Rohtas district is a part ofPatna Division, and it has an area of 3850 km², a population of 2,959,918 (2011 census), and a population density of 763 persons per km². Languages spoken here areBhojpuri,Hindi andEnglish.[3]
Rohtas district was created in 1972, when the formerShahabad district was divided in two. It corresponded to the former district's sub-divisions ofSasaram andBhabua. In 1991, Bhabua was split off as a separate district, which was renamedKaimur district in 1994.[4]
The district is a part of theRed Corridor.[5]
Rohtas district occupies an area of 3,851 square kilometres (1,487 sq mi).[6] This makes it the 4th-largest district in Bihar.[7]
Rohtas district can be divided into two major natural areas. In the north and northeast is the Sasaram Plain, analluvial plain sloping gently downward toward the northeast. Its average height ranges from 72m abovesea level in the north to 153m above sea level in the south. The plains cover all of Dinara, Dawath, Bikramganj, Nasriganj, Nokha, and Dehri Blocks, as well as parts of Sasaram, Sheosagar, and Rohtas Blocks. There are scattered woodlands in the east, in Sasaram Block. In the southern part of the district is theRohtas Plateau, which is an eastern flank of theVindhya plateau with an average elevation of 300m above sea level. It covers parts of Nauhatta, Rohtas, Sheosagar, Sasaram, and Chenari Blocks. This area is hilly, with occasional forests throughout. Several streams flow toward the north, including theDurgawati, theBajari, theKoel, and theSura. The Rohtas Plateau is less well suited for agriculture due to the uneven, rocky and gravelly soils as well as the forest cover. A variety of long grasses grow naturally on the plateau, includingpear grass,kus, andkhas khas.[4]
Throughout Rohtas district, the soils are generally classified asustalfs,ochrepts,orthents,fluvents, andpsamments.[4]
Economy of the district isagriculture based.Rice,wheat andmaize are the main crops. Rohtas is also called the "Rice bowl of Bihar". Until 1980,Dalmianagar was one of the major industrial cities in India. It hadsugar,vegetable oil,cement,paper, and chemical factories but now they are closed.[8]
In 2006 theMinistry of Panchayati Raj named Rohtas one of the country's 250most backward districts (out of a total of640).[9] It is one of the 36 districts in Bihar have received funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[9]
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1901 | 606,016 | — |
| 1911 | 575,964 | −0.51% |
| 1921 | 560,894 | −0.26% |
| 1931 | 616,315 | +0.95% |
| 1941 | 719,901 | +1.57% |
| 1951 | 831,133 | +1.45% |
| 1961 | 1,024,133 | +2.11% |
| 1971 | 1,286,983 | +2.31% |
| 1981 | 1,583,280 | +2.09% |
| 1991 | 1,927,736 | +1.99% |
| 2001 | 2,464,243 | +2.49% |
| 2011 | 2,959,918 | +1.85% |
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According to the2011 census Rohtas district has apopulation of 2,959,918,[15] roughly equal to the nation ofArmenia[16] or the US state ofMississippi.[17] This gives it a ranking of 127th in India (out of a total of640).[15] In Bihar, it is ranked 17th out of 38 in terms of population.[7] The district has a population density of 763 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,980/sq mi), ranking 34th out of 38 in Bihar (the state's density is 1,106 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,860/sq mi).[7] Itspopulation growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 20.22%.[15] Rohtas has asex ratio of 918females for every 1000 males, which ranks 22nd out of 38 in Bihar (the state ratio is also 918). 14.45% of the population live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 18.57% and 1.07% of the population respectively.[7]
Theliteracy rate in Rohtas district was 73.37% as of 2011 which is highest among all 38 districts of Bihar. The literacy rate was higher for men than for women: 82.88% of men but only 62.97% of women in the district could read and write. Literacy also was higher in urban areas than rural ones. The highest literacy rate in Rohtas district could be found in the town and sub-district ofDehri - 77.70% of the district's total population, and 81.2% of the population of the town proper, was literate. The lowest literacy rate was in the entirely rural CD block ofNauhatta, where 63.07% of the population could read and write.[4]
A majority of the working population of Rohtas district was employed inagriculture in 2011, with 23.58% being cultivators who owned or rented their own land and 43.85% being agricultural laborers who worked someone else's land for wages. Another 5.25% of the district's workforce was employed in household industries, and all other forms of employment accounted for the remaining 27.33%.[4]
At the time of the2011 Census of India, 87.67% of the population in the district spokeBhojpuri, 7.47%Hindi and 4.39%Urdu as their first language.[18]
In 1982 Rohtas district became home to theKaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, which has an area of 1,342 km2 (518.1 sq mi).[19]
The Rohtas district (headquartered at Sasaram) is headed by an IAS officer of the rank ofDistrict Magistrate (DM).
The district has got 2072 villages under 226Gram Panchayats, 34 territorial police stations[20]
Rohtas district comprises three tehsils or Sub-divisions, each headed by aSub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM):
These Tehsils are further divided into 19Blocks, each headed by a Block Development Officer (BDO).
There are 10 towns in Rohtas district, as follows:[4]
| Town name | Class | Population (in 2011) |
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| Koath | Nagar panchayat | 18,890 |
| Bikramganj | Nagar panchayat | 48,465 |
| Nasriganj | Nagar panchayat | 23,819 |
| Nokha | Nagar panchayat | 27,302 |
| Bhardua | Census town | 5,317 |
| Chanari | Census town | 6,569 |
| Sasaram | Nagar Nigam | 147,408 |
| Dehri | Nagar parishad | 137,231 |
| Saraiya | Census town | 8,260 |
| Telkap | Census town | 4,504 |
| Karagahar | Census town | 10,170 |
| District | No. | Constituency | Name | Party | Alliance | Remarks | ||
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| Rohtas | 207 | Chenari | Murari Prasad Gautam | BJP | NDA | Switched from INC to BJP | ||
| 208 | Sasaram | Rajesh Kumar Gupta | RJD | MGB | ||||
| 209 | Kargahar | Santhosh Kumar Mishra | INC | MGB | ||||
| 210 | Dinara | Vijay Yadav | RJD | MGB | ||||
| 211 | Nokha | Anita Devi | RJD | MGB | ||||
| 212 | Dehri | Fateh Bahadur Singh | RJD | MGB | ||||
| 213 | Karakat | Arun Singh | CPI(ML)L | MGB | ||||
Armenia 2,967,975 July 2011 est.
Mississippi 2,967,297
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