Biharबिहार
State
- Capital
- Patna
- Legislature
- Bicameral
- Assembly seats
- 243
- Lok Sabha seats
- 40
- Rajya Sabha seats
- 16
- Districts
- 38
- Governor / LG / Administrator
- Lt. General (Retired) Syed Ata HasnainAs of 2026-11-04
- Chief Minister
- Shri Samrat ChoudharyAs of 2026-11-04
Inside the state government
Local bodies
- District panchayats
- 38
- Intermediate panchayats
- 534
- Village panchayats
- 8,051
- Urban bodies
- 264
- Cantonment boards
- 1
Departments 39
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- Agriculture Department
- BC and EBC Welfare Department
- Building Construction Department
- Cabinet Secretariate Department
- Co-operative Department
- Commercial Taxes Department
- Disaster Management Department
- Education Department
- Energy Department
- Environment & Forest Department
- Finance Department
- Food and Consumer Protection Department
- General Administration Department
- Health & Family Welfare Department
- Home Department
- Industry Department
- Information & Public Relations Department
- Information Technology Department
- Labour Resources (Employment and Training) Department
- Law Department
- Mines & Geology Department
- Minor Water Resources Department
- Minority Welfare Department
- Panchayat Raj Department
- Parliamentary Affairs Department
- Planning & Development Department
- Public Health Engineering Department
- Registration, Excise & Prohibition Department
- Revenue & Land Reforms Department
- Rural Development Department
- Rural Works Department
- Science & Technology Department
- Social Welfare Department
- Sugarcane Industries Department
- Tourism Department
- Transport Department
- Vigilance Department
- Water Resources (Irrigation) Department
- Youth, Art & Culture Department
From the government's web directory, which may not list every department.
Sources
- Parliament of India: State Legislatures Checked: 2026-11-04
- Election Commission of India: Terms of the Houses Checked: 2026-11-04
- Local Government Directory (LGD), Ministry of Panchayati Raj Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Who's Who, Governors Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Who's Who, Chief Ministers Checked: 2026-11-04
- Local Government Directory: State wise Administrative Units report Checked: 2026-11-04
- National Portal of India: Web Directory, State & UT Checked: 2026-11-04