[1] It is centrally located and connects cities like Bhagalpur, Munger, Banka, Jamui and Deoghar.

A number of students from the remote area, specifically villages find this place as Educational Hub.

The town is festively decorated every year during shrawani mela, a month-long religious carnival where devotees go to the historic Shiva temple in Deoghar after taking the holy water from the "utrawahini" Ganges in Sultanganj.

The police shot at the crowd, among whom were a number of people who had also been active in the civil disobedience movement that led to the Salt March of 1930.

[3] CM said, "These freedom fighters had never got their due, even though this was the biggest massacre carried out by the British police after Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 in Amritsar.