literacy rate of 72%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 14.73% and 0.05% of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 22.97% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 7.78% Urdu as their first language. 68.70% of the population recorded their first language as a dialect classified as Other Hindi on the census. The main language of the region is Bajjika. Politicians Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha , Freedom Fighter, Member 1st Lok Sabha, popularly known as the father of Cooperative Movement Ram Dulari Sinha, Freedom Fighter, Former Union Minister & Governor Raghunath Jha, Former Union Minister, maker of Sheohar District Hari Kishore Singh, Former Ambassador of Syria Anwarul Haque, Former MP of Sheohar Sitaram Singh, Former MP of Sheohar Rama Devi, Current MP of Sheohar References External links Official website Tirhut division Districts of Bihar 1994 establishments in Bihar