Manpur, Bihar
Manpur is a block in Gaya District, India. The town is known for its handloom and railroad tie factory. It is situated on the banks of the Phalgu river. It is a country town where the people from the remote villages do their shopping. The main market is known as Manpur Bazaar. The main occupation of the people are business and handloom weaving Weaving of clothes through hand loom and power loom is done mainly in Patwatoli. It is sometimes referred as mini-Kanpur by people of nearby villages and towns. People of patwatoli are very innovative and intelligent.
Manpur Manpur | |
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town | |
 Manpur junction railway station | |
| Nickname(s): Manchester of Eastern India | |
  Manpur Location in Bihar, India | |
| Coordinates: 24.82°N 85.03°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Gaya |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal corporation |
| • Body | Nagar Palika |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magadhi/magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 823003 |
| Telephone code | 0631 |
| Nearest city | Gaya |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Gaya Town |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Gaya Town, Wazirganj |
Patwatoli, a muhalla in Manpur, has produced many IITians almost 10 each year Indian Institutes of Technology and about every house has an engineer. Now these days, students are opting other streams too like Law, UPSC, SSC, Medical etc. Due to higher education in Patwatoli, Child marriage is about to end and Girls also going out for higher education in famous colleges and universities and they are also getting jobs in foreign countries. It proves that education changes the society. [1]
There is also a very ancient temple of Lord Sun in Manpur named as Surya Temple, which is situated on the bank of a very fine pond. The Surya Temple was established around 400 years ago by Raja Man Singh, an army chief of the greatest Mughal Emperor Akbar as well as king of Amer. Raja Man Singh was established Manpur that's why it is named as Man-pur during his campaign to destroy Bengal riots. In Patwatoli, near the Shiv Mandir, Sri Ram Nagar, Durga Asthan and Shivcharan Lane has the highest amount of power looms installed. There are almost 5000- 8000 power looms set up.
The Manpur is also famous for Diwali as here almost hundreds of statues of Goddess Lakshmi, Lord Ganesha and Goddess Saraswati is worshipped and decorated on the occasion of Diwali. People from all over the Manpur as well as Gaya town come out of their houses in Diwali to see the very well decorated statues. On 2nd day of Diwali people roam around the patwatoli for Pandal Hoping.