District atlas · Bihar
Katihar in Bihar. Explore its public directory, history, places, personalities and election references.
कटिहार जिला
Directory snapshot · 8 October 2026
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Katihar district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in India, and Katihar city is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district is a part of Purnia Division. It is prominently known for its Katihar Junction Railway Station, which is a Category A1 station on the Barauni–Guwahati line. It has been included in the Aspirational Districts Program of the Government of India since 2018, to improve its socio-economic indicators. Katihar was the largest maize producing district of Bihar in 2022.
Community reference · excerpt shortened from Wikipedia contributors, revision 1376400352. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpt remains under that licence. Structured reference: Wikidata (CC0).
Food processing · PMFME ODOP
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries lists these food-product priorities for this district in its dated PMFME One District One Product record. This identifies programme focus, rather than current crop output or the district’s complete food culture.
District products · ODOP reference
These products appear against this district in the linked One District One Product catalogue. They are documented product associations, rather than a current industrial census or a complete list of local businesses.
7 public personality references
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Ashok Kumar Agrawal is an Indian politician from Bihar belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Bihar Legislative Council since 2009 representing Katihar Local Authorities constituency. He...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1139085346Binod Kumar Singh also known as Binod Singh Kushwaha was an Indian politician associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Minister of Backward & Extremely Backward Classes Welfare at the time...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1349596471Brahmanand Mandal (14 January 1947 - 30 January 2024) was an Indian politician who served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Munger constituency for three terms under three different political...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1346936645Mahboob Alam (born 1956/1957) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Central Committee as well as the Bihar State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1376865708Neeraj Yadav was an Indian politician who was elected as a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from Barari constituency in 2015 as the candidate of Rashtriya Janata Dal but lost to Bijay...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1378400077Punam Kumari, nee Paswan, (born 1979) is an Indian politician from Bihar. She was a former member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Korha Assembly constituency which is reserved for Scheduled Caste...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1359631011Sangita Devi (born 1984) is an Indian politician from Bihar. She is a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Balarampur Assembly constituency in Katihar district. She won the 2025 Bihar Legislative...
Wikipedia contributors ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · rev. 1366239400These topic links were collected from the official district website’s navigation. Visit the original page for its complete information and current travel conditions.
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