Danapur
Danapur Nizamat or Danapur is an Indian satellite town and one of six subdivisions (tehsil) in the Patna district of Bihar state.
Danapur Nizamat or Danapur is an Indian satellite town and one of six subdivisions (tehsil) in the Patna district of Bihar state. The population was 182,241 at the 2011 India Census. It is part of the Patna Metropolitan Region. It was constituted as a municipality in 1887.
Danapur is also a shelter and hatchery for the migrating Siberian cranes, locally called Janhgil. They visit every year during the monsoon season for breeding and leave this place before the start of the winter season. The Sub-Area Headquarters of Bihar and Jharkhand is situated in the army cantonment here.
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Getting to Danapur
- Airports
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 219 km · Tribhuvan (KTM), 233 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 265 km
- Varanasi → Danapur208 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · ₹1,540–1,930
- Siliguri → Danapur358 km · quickest by road, 6h 41m · ₹2,830–3,540
- Lucknow → Danapur433 km · quickest by road, 7h 14m · ₹3,260–4,070
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Danapur
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Danapur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are prepaid and shared taxis/rickshaws available throughout the day between two stations.
- Get inShared rickshaws (₹30) leave from south side of Patna Junction.
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Next door to Danapur
Danapur is 10 km from Patna, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.