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Bihar Day (Bihar Diwas) is observed every year on March 22,[1] marking the formation of the state of Bihar. On 22 March 1912, the Bihar and Orissa divisions of the Bengal Province were separated to form the Province of Bihar and Orissa in British India.[2][3] The day is a public holiday in Bihar.[4]

Bihar Day was started and celebrated on large scale by Bihar Government in the tenure of Nitish Kumar.Шаблон:Citation missing Apart from India, it is celebrated in countries including the United States, Germany,[5] Britain (Scotland),[6] Australia, Canada, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius.[7]

List of Eastern South Asian states
Year State/Province Objective Capital Parent State/Province Dominion/Union/Country
1912 Bihar and Orissa Homeland for Biharis and Odias Patna Created from Bengal British India (now India)
1912 Assam Homeland for Assamese Gauhati (now Guwahati) Created from Bengal British India (now India)
1936 Orissa (now Odisha) Homeland for Odias Cuttack (in the year 1949, Bhubaneshwar became capital) Created from Bihar and Orissa British India (now India)
1947 East Bengal (in the year 1971, it became Bangladesh) Homeland for Bengali Muslims Dacca (now Dhaka) Created from Bengal Pakistan
1947 West Bengal Homeland for Bengali Hindus Calcutta (now Kolkata) Created from Bengal India
2000 Jharkhand Homeland for Adivasis Ranchi Created from Bihar India

Observance

Every year the Government of Bihar issues a notification declaring the 22 March to be a public holiday to be celebrated as Bihar Day. This holiday applies to all the offices and companies under the jurisdiction of the State and central Government as well as Schools celebrate this day by organising various programmes participated by students.Шаблон:Citation needed

See also

References

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