Kharhara is a small town in Banka district in the state of Bihar, India. It is the birthplace of Satish Chandra Jha, one of seven martyrs Shaheed Smarak Patna who hoisted the flag of India at Patna Secretariat during 1942 Quit India Movement.

Geography Kharahara is located at . It has an average elevation of 79 metres (259 feet).

Demographics According to Census 2011 information the location code of Kharhara is 241176. Kharhara is located in Barahat Tehsil of Banka district in Bihar, India. It is situated 4 km away from sub-district headquarter Barahat and 8 km away from district headquarter Banka. As per 2009 stats, Kharhara is the gram panchayat of Kharhara.

Climate

Literacy Total 8076 people in the small town are literate, among them 5330 are male and 2745 are female. Literacy rate (children under 6 are excluded) of Kharhara is 60%. 74% of male and 44% of female population are literate here. Overall literacy rate in the town has increased by 10%. Male literacy has gone up by 6% and female literacy rate has gone up by 16%.

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Colleges

Bhagalpur College of Engineering Bihar Agricultural University Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur Mahadeo Singh Law College Marwari College, Bhagalpur Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University T.N.B. College, Bhagalpur

Economy Kharhara is an agricultural town. Still, the town has Industrial development with the Indian Oil CorporationBottling plant spurs hope for LPG users The Telegraph 19, Feb 2015.

Notable people Satish Chandra Jha, Quit India movement (August 1942), to hoist the national flag on the (now) Secretariat building

Transport Bhagalpur Deoghar Road, Banka, Godda are the nearby by towns to Kharhara having road connectivity to Kharhara. Connected with .

Barahat railway station, Punsia railway station are the very nearby railway stations to Kharhara. Murahara Railway Station (near to Banka), Banka Junction railway station (near to Banka) are the Rail way stations reachable from near by towns. However Bhagalpur Junction railway station is a major railway station 40 km from Kharhara

Deoghar Airport (ICAO: IN-0090) is located at New Deoghar, in the state of Jharkhand, India. However Deoghar Airport is major Airport 75 km from Kharhara

Airlines and destinations

Tourism Mandar Parvat also known as Mandar Hill is a small mountain situated in city of Bounsi. Digambar Jain Siddha Kshetra is located at the top of a mountain known as Mandar Parbat, which is about tall and made of a single piece of stone. On top of the hill are a Hindu and a Jain temple. A carnival is organised every year at Makar Sakranti.

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