Pirpainti

Pirpainti
Town
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Coordinates: 25°19′27″N87°25′42″E / 25.3242°N 87.4283°E / 25.3242; 87.4283
Country	India
State	Bihar
Division	Bhagalpur
District	Bhagalpur
Sub-division	Kahalgaon
Government
• Type	Nagar panchayat
• Body	Pirpainti Nagar panchayat
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (2011) [1]
• Total	9,021
Language
• Official	Hindi [2]
• Additional official	Urdu [2]
• Regional	Angika [3]
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Lok Sabha constituency	Bhagalpur
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Pirpainti

Pirpainti is a town and a notified area in Bhagalpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a block of the Bhagalpur district and also a vidhansabha.

History

The name in itself is composed of two terms "Pir" and "payat". "Pir" is related to saints while "payat" in local terms means sitting in group for holistic purposes. However, there is a place of 'Pir' on the bank of river Ganga where people of go to worship. It is the biggest panchayat in Bhagalpur. Patna. Pirpainti consist of 89 Villages and 29 Panchayats. It is located around 232.9 km away from Patna. Pirpainti Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of 243 legislative assemblies of Bihar's legislative assembly. There are 1635 households in Pirpainti. Pirpainti Block is bounded by Mehrma Block towards South, Manihari Block towards East, Kahalgaon Block towards west, Mandro Block towards South.^{[ citation needed ]}

Demographics

As of 2011 Indian Census, Pirpainti had a total population of 9021, of which 4,786 were males and 4,235 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 1,774. Average sex ratio of Pirpainti village is 885 which is lower than Bihar state average of 918. Child sex ratio for the Pirpainti as per census is 993, higher than Bihar average of 935. The total number of literates in Pirpainti was 3791, which constituted 42.02%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Pirpainti was 52.31%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 62 and 54 respectively. Pirpainti had 1,635 households in 2011. ^[1]

Literacy Rate	52.31%
Total Working Population	30.45%
Main Working Population	33.99%
Marginal Working Population	63.01%
Total Population	9021	Total male	4786	Total female	4235

Transport

Pirpainti railway station is situated on Sahibganj Loop of the Malda railway division. ^[4]

References

1. "Census of India: Pirpainti". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
2. "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.
3. Masica, Colin P. (9 September 1993). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN   978-0-521-29944-2.
4. TTI. "PPT / Pirpainti Railway Station | Train Arrival / Departure Timings at Pirpainti". www.totaltraininfo.com. Retrieved 6 June 2021.