Sainthia
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Sainthia is a town and a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Suri Sadar subdivision
Suri Sadar subdivision
Suri Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Birbhum district in the state of West Bengal, India. It consists of three municipalities and seven community development blocs: Suri — I, Suri — II, Saithiya, Dubrajpur, Khayrashol, Rajnagar and Mahammad Bazar. The seven blocks contain one...

 of Birbhum district
Birbhum District
Birbhum district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the three administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is located at Suri...

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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 of West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

. The town is famous for Nandikeshwari Temple, one of the Shakti Peethas
Shakti Peethas
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 in India.

Geography

Sainthia is located at 23.95°N 87.67°E. It has an average elevation of 53 metres (173 feet). The town is situated in the bank of Mayurakshi river. Indeed it comes in the belt of maximum hot places of West Bengal. Temperature goes very high and terribly humid in Summer and quite chill in winter.

Sainthia is one of the busiest business hubs in the mid part of West Bengal. Textile, mustard oil and it's byproducts, handicrafts are renowned factor of the major business transactions. Besides the town is well connected to Baharampur, Siuri, Rampurhat, Bolpur, Andal, Asansol and Durgapur through high roads and railroads. That makes the town to be the business center of all sorts of goods distribution and transportation. Socio-economical status is quite strong and education ratio is increasing day by day.

Demographics

India census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Sainthia had a population of 39,244. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sainthia has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 73%, and female literacy is 59%. In Sainthia, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Educational institutions

In Sainthia, there are the following school and colleges.

Birbhum Vivekananda Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital:- This is the only college in North Zone.Principal is Dr.Tapan Kr.Chatterjee.

Sainthia Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya:- This is the only college in Sainthia. The available subjects are Physics(H), Chemistry(H), Math(H), Geography, and all Arts subject(H). This college is under Burdwan University.

Sainthia Town High School:- A H.S. level boys school in Sainthia estublished in 1959. Presently it has 24 teachers. Headmaster is Sri Tapas Ghosh (Tom).

Sainthia High School:- A H.S. level co-education school,established in 1928. Presently it has 42 teachers. Headmaster is Sri Arun Kumar Das, rewarded by State Govt. It was formerly for boys only. This is the only school in Sainthia where Computer Science & Computer Application subject is available for HS level, not only that 16 other Elective Subjects are available.It is the only school in the locality where Commerce Subjects are available.

Paharibaba High School:- A H.S level co-education school situated at the far east of Sainthia. It was the first co-ed school of Sainthia.

Sashibhushan Dutta Balika Vidyalaya:- A H.S. Level girls school.

Sainthia Central School:- Nursery to STD VIII Co-education english medium school based CBSE board. Here Danceing, Singing, Computer and Drawing educayion done here.
Principal - Sumona Pandey

Incidents

On July 19, 2010, the Sainthia train collision
Sainthia train collision
The Sainthia train collision occurred on July 19, 2010, at Sainthia railway station in West Bengal, India, when the Uttar Banga Express collided with the Vananchal Express as it was leaving the platform...

occurred at the train station here, when an express train collided with a train stopped at the station.

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