Shri Krishna Sinha: Difference between revisions

| birth_place  = [[Nawada district|Khanwan village, Narhat]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]

Shri Krishna Sinha was born on 21 October 1887 to a Bhumihar family in the village of Khanwan, [[Narhat]] in the [[Nawada district]] of [[Bengal Presidency]] (now part of [[Nawada district]]).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ramachandra Prasad |author2=Ashok Kumar Sinha|title=Shri Krishna Sinha: a biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eG1AAAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=N.K. Enterprises}}</ref> His mother, who was also an unassuming and religious-minded person, died of plague when he was five years old. He was educated in the village school and at Zila School in Munger. In 1906 he joined [[Patna College]], which was then an affiliate of the [[University of Calcutta]]. He obtained a master's degree from the University of Calcutta and then doctorate of law from [[Patna University]] and started practicing in Munger from 1915. In the meantime, he married and had two sons, Shivshankar and Bandishankar (more commonly known as Swaraj Babu) who later held various posts in the state government.<ref name="Prasad 1987 186">{{cite book

Almost all the development projects in Bihar during this period involved the leadership pair of Sinha and A.N. Sinha. It includes several river valley projects right from [[Koshi River|Koshi]], Aghaur and Sakri to other such river projects. The first five-year plan period was given to the development in rural development works mainly in the agricultural sector. Bihar became the top state in the country's first five-year plan. From the second five-year plan period, Sinha brought several heavy industries like [[Barauni Refinery]], [[Heavy Engineering Corporation]] at [[Ranchi]], [[Bokaro Steel Plant]], [[Barauni Fertiliser Plant]], [[Barauni Thermal Power Station]], [[Damodar Valley Corporation]], [[Patratu Thermal Power Station]], Scooter Factory in Fatuha, Pyrite Phosphate Chemical Limited and Sulphur mines at Amjhaur, Sindri Fertiliser Plant, Kargali Coal Washery, Garhara locomotive shed. He wanted to built an industrial corridor from Begusarai-Bakhtiyarpur-Fatuha, so he looked to construct [[Rajendra Setu]] in [[Mokama]] but he died before its completion.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Making-of-Begusarai-was-by-choice-not-accident/articleshow/34169383.cms?from=mdr |title=Making of Begusarai was by choice not accident |date=25 April 2014 |first=Rajiv |last=Kumar |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>