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2,199,361 (1.68%) [2] The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. [3][4] The survey was conducted in two phases, house listing and caste and economic enumeration. The data collection for the survey began on 7 January 2023 and the data was released ...
Website. savbihar.ac.in. Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya is a school in Simultala, of Jhajha Block, Jamui District in the Indian State of Bihar. [1][2] The school has a record of producing 30 toppers out of 31 in top 10 of the Bihar School Examination Board in 2015. [3] After the creation of the state of Jharkhand in 2000, the school was created in ...
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya. Country. India. Ministry. Government of India. Launched. July 2004. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya or KGBV is a residential girls’ secondary school run by the Government of India for the weaker sections in India.
Photo of a Musahar taken as part of a caste survey by Herbert Hope Risley in Bihar, 1890s. In Bihar, the word Musahar is said to be derived from the Bhojpuri mūs+ahar (literally rat eater), on account of their traditional occupation as rat catchers. [4] According to a local legend, Lord Brahma created man and gave him the horse to ride. The ...
Reservation policy in Bihar. Reservation policy in Bihar is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education and employment. Reservations in the state rose from 60 percent in 2021 to 75 percent in 2023. [1] In June 2024, Patna High Court struck down the new reservation policy.
Bihar. 17,579 (0.0134% of the population of Bihar) [1] Religion. Hinduism. Tili is a Bengali Hindu middle-ranking caste, found in the state of Bihar and West Bengal in India. [2][3] By the late nineteenth century they were one of the fourteen castes belonging to 'Nabasakh' group in Bengal. [4]
Deo Sun Temple, Deo. Hinduism is the main religion of the state, being practiced by 82.7% of the total state population. The Hindu population in Bihar is 86,078,686 as of 2022 census report. Hindus are majority in all the districts in Bihar except Kishanganj. Most of the festivals stem from it.
Dalits in Bihar are a social group composed of many Scheduled Castes, placed at the bottom of the " caste -based social order". The Dalits also include some of the erstwhile untouchable castes, who suffered various forms of oppression in the feudal - agrarian society of Bihar. Some of the Dalit castes have specific cultural practices, which ...