General Information
Bagaha is on the banks of the Gandak river. The area is very fertile due to its location in the terai of the Himalayas. The main crops grown here are sugarcane, wheat and rice. The place was infamous for its crime and a flourishing kidnapping industry, but, after the change of government in the state, the crime is nullified. Development has been seen. The road connecting to Patna is now National Highway 28B. Electrical supply has drastically improved with six hydroelectric plants, of which two are already working.
Bagaha itself is a Police district with its own superintendent of police. Town has three cinema halls, one civil court, one subdivisional hospital, and government and private high schools and colleges.
Bagaha is divided into two blocks Bagaha-1 and Bagaha-2.
- Bagaha-1 includes the main market of Bagaha, i.e., Bagaha Bazar, hospital,High School named D.M.(Devi Mangal Singh)Academy & City Montessori Public School .
- Bagaha-2 includes Bagaha Civil Court, Railway Station, Sugar mill. One cinema hall named Chitrangada is in Bagaha-1, the other two lie in Bagaha-2, named Kamla Talkies and Dhruv Talkies.
The town is well connected to Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Amritsar, Dehradoon, Haridwar, Porbandar Gandhinagar and Varanasi with superfast trains. Some of the trains run through bagaha are Awadh(Bandra) Exp., Saptakranti Exp., Satyagrah Exp., Motihari-Porbandar Exp., Bapudham Exp., Awadh Asam Exp., Dehradoon Exp., Purvanchal Exp., Jannayak exp. etc.
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