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West Champaran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia West Champaran is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India. The district occupies an area of 5229 km² and has a population of 3,043,044 (as of 2001). West Champaran is a part of Tirhut Division. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Champaran   (143 words)

Police Atrocities on "Dhangars" of Bettiah, West Champaran Anjani Kumar Sinha, members of the district of the PUCL of West Champaran along with Mr. The Dhangar toil is a small habitation by the side of the Bettiah Arairaj Main road in the east of the orchard of Bettiah Raj, known as 'Dolbagh'. This Dhangar toil is at a distance of half a kilometer from the Bettiah police line, the residences of SP, DIG, and the Collector of West Champaran. www.pucl.org /reports/Bihar/2001/champaran.htm   (1050 words)

Bih_hist Valmikinagar is a small town and a railroad station in the district of West Champaran, close to the railhead of Narkatiyaganj in northwest Bihar. Remains of a few of these pillars are still extant, for example at Lauriya-Nandan Garh in the district of West Champaran and at Vaishali, in the present district of the same name. At the persistent request of a farmer, Raj Kumar Shukla, from the district of Champaran, in 1917 Gandhiji took a train ride to Motihari, the district headquarters of Champaran. www.bihareebabu.com /Bihhist.htm   (2826 words)

Vikramshila Newsletter Issue 3 : READ - Education Programme in West Champaran, Bihar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) I was away on a visit to a very exciting project in West Champaran in our neighbouring state of Bihar. It is a programme for educating young adolescent girls of the mussahar, chamar, pasi, paswan and machhua communities. The name Champaran is associated in our minds with Gandhiji’s freedom movement, so it is difficult to reconcile that after 55 years of independence parts of Champaran still remain bound in chains of ignorance, superstition and poverty. www.vikramshila.org /Newsletter/Issue3.htm   (765 words)

Champaran forgets the apostle of ahimsa BETTIAH (WEST CHAMPARAN), August 11: There is a road to Mahatma Gandhi's famous ashram at Bhitiharwar in West Champaran. Brajesh Mehrotra, the DM of Bettiah, the district headquarters of West Champaran, points out that their incidence has come down and estimates last year's figure as 40 to 50. The land in both East and West Champaran is as fertile as Punjab's. www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970812/22450243.html   (902 words)

Row over MCC-link slur on missionaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Mission workers were all the more angry on learning that West Champaran superintendent of police Ratan Sanjay has written to his seniors about the alleged MCC links. West Champaran police have launched a crackdown on the MCC’s terror apparatus following a spurt in killings. The Naxalites are believed to be behind the killings of Bharat Yadav and Bhola Mian at Charapapur Banbar village on the night of May 24 while the two were returning from a BJP meeting in an adjoining village. www.hvk.org /articles/0603/166.html   (630 words)

Confronting naxalism In 2003, CPN (Maoist) cadre were reported to have received military training in seven MCCI camps in West Champaran district of Bihar, Bokaro, Giridh, Chatra and Hazaribagh districts in Jharkhand. The leadership of the People's War and the MCCI, which are active in West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts in the State, is mainly composed of militants from Andhra Pradesh. The Centre perceives that the socio-economic, political and regional inequities widely prevalent in the country are the basic causes for the continuance and expansion of naxalism. www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2121/stories/20041022003903300.htm   (1050 words)

Asia Times There is an imminent danger that the Maoist insurgency in Nepal may affect the internal security scenario in India, with inextricable and strengthening linkages between the Nepalese Maoists and left-wing extremist groups - generically referred to as Naxalites - active in different parts of India. The arrested Maoists disclosed to the police that several newly recruited cadres were being given arms training in special training camps in the forests of Bagha in the West Champaran district, which have, of late, emerged as a safe haven for the Nepalese insurgents. The MCC, which was earlier confined to south (now Jharkhand) and central Bihar, has extended its activities in the Darbhanga, Madhubani, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, East and West Champaran and Muzaffarpur districts. www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DJ23Df01.html   (1257 words)

UNICEF India - Nutrition East Champaran (Bihar): A large number of districts of Bihar – East and West Champaran included – are known to be IDD-endemic districts. The people of Kuraiyan village in East Champaran district of Bihar, for instance, know little about iodine deficiency disorder (IDD), or the fact that their flood-prone district is one of the endemic districts for IDD in Bihar. In the Tirkaulia block of rural East Champaran, many salt traders were found to be stocking a certain brand of “iodised” salt. www.unicef.org /india/nutrition_761.htm   (912 words)

Jammu Kashmir War Article Details, India Pakistan Dispute, Human Right Violations, Articles Against Jammu Kashmir ... Even as the state''s efforts were concentrated in the ''worst affected'' southern districts, the Maoists had consolidated their presence in the northern border areas, and the attack at Madhuban was essentially an open declaration of this consolidation. The CPI-Maoist is increasing their foothold in northern districts of West Champaran, Sheohar, Siamarhi, Madhubani, Muzzaffarpur and Darbangha disricts apart from Patna, gaya, Aurangabadm Arwal, Jehanabad, Rohtas, Jamui, Bhojpur amnd Kaimur. Apart from the East Champaran district, the other districts under the scheme in Bihar are Aurangabad, Gaya, Jehanabad, Rohtas, Nalanda, Patna, Bhojpur, Kaimur, West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Arwal, Nawada and Jamui. www.himalayanaffairs.org /articledetails.asp?id=172   (612 words)

BORR Terrorism News: Bihar: Expanding Left-Wing Violence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The Naxalite movement, which originated in the small town of Naxalbari in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, had a direct impact on Bihar, and the Bihar State Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (BSCCCR) was formed on December 10, 1968. In recent incidents, six Maoist insurgents were arrested in Sitamarhi on July 20, 2002; another three were arrested in Motihari district on July 19, 2002; and on November 27, 2001, the West Champaran district police arrested a Naxalite with explosives meant for the Maoists in Nepal. Training camps are also said to exist in the West Champaran district of North Bihar. www.borrull.org /e/noticia.php?id=11654   (1009 words)

Acres Of Anger Moreover, the last collector of West Champaran, Ravi Parmar, posted there from 2000 to June 2003, had been a particular nightmare for the landlords. It is the democratisation of muscle that has led to the rampaging crime figures in West Champaran. Besides, as Parmar says, in West Champaran there are an average of 200 kidnappings every year. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1342436/posts   (2002 words)

Landlord surrenders land in West Champaran- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) BETTIAH: There is some good news from West Champaran at last. To add fuel to the fire, the triumphant march of the ML and the BSP was being allegedly viewed as having the covert support of the district administration. In such a scary backdrop, Monday’s voluntary surrender and amicable distribution of the landlord’s surplus land is being described as a watershed in West Champaran’s land reform history. timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_ID=22606136   (385 words)

News Headings BAGHA (BIHAR), Nov 21 (UNI) — At least nine person were killed and three seriously injured in a clash between villagers and a dacoit gang at Chandraharupalia village under Bathwariya police station in west Champaran district during the past 48 hours, the police said. The District Magistrate of West Champaran and the SPs of Bagha and West Champaran were camping in the village. The massacre comes close on the heels of the gunning down of 12 members of a minority family in Loto village in the state’s Palamu district on Tuesday night. www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov22/head4.htm   (714 words)

CID to probe crime in West Champaran- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) PATNA: The Patna High Court on Wednesday directed the IG, CID, to probe crime rise in West Champaran district during the tenure of former SP Paras Nath due to police inaction and police-criminal nexus as reported to the state police headquarters by former Champaran range DIG K P Singh. The HC ordered a probe by the IG, CID, even as the DGP submitted before it that action was being taken on the DIG’s reports. West Indies 2007 Cricket countdown 8N/9D @ Rs 360000 timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/968552.cms   (301 words)

Process documentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) We have documented this entire process which was published by WFP in the form of a booklet. We have also prepared a document on the experimental work at READ in West Champaran, Bihar. READ (Rural Education and Development) is a charitable non-profit organisation, involved in the education and integral development of the people of West Champaran. www.vikramshila.org /documentation.htm   (237 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The 102-foot-high stupa dating back to the Gupta period is considered to be one of the biggest Buddhist stupas in the country. The ASI has written a letter to the West Champaran DM for acquisition of the adjacent land. The superintending archaeologist of the ASI’s Patna circle, Urmila Sant, will visit the site within a couple of days to do the preliminary work before undertaking the actual conservation work which is likely to be completed by March next year. www.buddhistnews.tv /current/kesariya-conserve-N.php   (385 words)

12 abducted in West Champaran, 9 freed- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) BETTIAH: Early on Thursday morning, just hours after Bollywood filmmaker Prakash Jha showcased his film "Apaharan" at the International Film Festival of India in Goa and just a day before this film's all-India release, kidnapping made a comeback after a poll hiatus in Bihar. A dozen people were abducted en masse from Matiaria police station area in West Champaran, filmmaker Jha's home district. Incidentally, "Apaharan", the movie, is inspired by Bihar's biggest "industry" — kidnapping — born in Champaran. timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1315437.cms   (207 words)

2004096.html West Bengal - Murshidabad, Nadia, North 24 Pargana, Birbhum and Burdwan. September 20 - 800,000 homeless in late monsoon flooding in West Bengal Less flooding on August 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24.Flooding along Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers and their tributaries observed July 24, 26, August 11, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25 Flooding intensified along the middle and lower Irrawaddy on September 17, 19, 20. www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/2004096.html   (377 words)

The Tribune, Chandigarh, - Assembly Elections 2005 The police has lodged cases against several RJD activists after posters on the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat surfaced at several places in Bihar’s Supaul and West Champaran districts ahead of the second phase of Assembly elections in the state. Hidayat, who has reputation for notoriety, is drawing support from a large section of the minority community which constitutes nearly a third of the population of Jamshedpur (West). Another FIR was lodged against an organisation and publishers of such posters, which appeared under the Sikarpur Assembly constituency in West Champaran, official sources said. www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050215/election.htm   (1626 words)

Navodaya Vidyalaya, West Champaran, Bihar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Contact Us Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Vrindavan, west Champaran, co-educational residential school and a wing of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, under Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt. away from District Head Quarter (Bettiah) West Champaran. The Vidyalaya has been gaining ground by leaps and bounds by dint of a beautiful cordial atmosphere among the staff members and under the able guidance of the Principals, the Vidyalaya has seen so far. jnvwchamparan.bih.nic.in   (228 words)

PatnaDaily.Com - Train Derails in West Champaran District Train Derails in West Champaran District; 24 Hurt More than two dozen passengers were reported injured when the engine and two bogies of 273 Narkatiaganj-Bhikhanathori passenger train under East-Central Railways derailed near Narkatiaganj in West Champaran district on Monday evening. According to the railway sources, the locomotive jumped off the track hardly a few kilometers from the Narkatiaganj station. www.patnadaily.com /news2004/011204/train_derails.html   (213 words)

West Champaran Driven by hunger, a destitute woman sold her five-day-old daughter to a childless couple for only Rs 21. Rita Devi of Kesaria in West Champaran district, whose husband Jagdish died a few months ago, sold her daugther to Jaleshwar Das and Rajkumari of Paru-Bishunpur village on Thursday. Rita, according to reports, stayed at Paru-Bishunpur when she was on her way from Kesaria to Lalganj in Vaishali district to meet her parents. www.indianngos.com /districts/westchamparan.htm   (140 words)

Engineer, 2 others kidnapped in West Champaran - Sify.com Engineer, 2 others kidnapped in West Champaran - Sify.com Bagaha (Bihar): Three persons, including an engineer, were kidnapped from a village in Bihar's West Champaran district on Wednesday, police said. Prakash Chandra Dwivedi, engineer of the Barauni Oil Refinery and two others—Manoj Kumar Roy and Manoj Kumar—were taken away by unidentified persons from Chauki village under Ram Nagar police station. sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=14232975   (145 words)

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Tirhut, A leading territory of Bihar, India Currently (2005), the division consists of West Champaran, also called Bettiah district; East Champaran, also called Motihari district; Muzaffarpur district; Sitamarhi district; Sheohar district; Vaishali district, also called Hajipur district. Tourism of Tirhut offers you an exciting range of Tirhut Tour Packages. For more information or to book a Champaran Tirhut Tour, please enter your query in the form below. www.tirhut.com   (157 words)

Monsanto's license suspended by Bihar Government Monsanto's Kargil 900 m' maize crop cultivated over 140,000 hectares of land in Bihar has failed and the state government has ordered an inquiry into the fiasco. Lured by the promise of high yield - 80 to 85 quintal per acre - the farmers of flood-affected districts of Darbhanga Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, East Champaran and West Champaran sowed Kargil seeds on a large scale... Don't miss out on the latest interactive features, columns and news. www.newfarm.org /international/news/040303/bihar.shtml   (200 words)

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