About Patna, Information on Patna, Patna tourist place

Patna got its first Botanical Garden in January 1970. Out of the campus of the Raj Bhawan 34 acres of land, complete with trees and flowering plants, was demarcated and converted into a botanical garden in 1970. At places it resembles a forest with galleries that meet overhead and blot out the sunlight. Some additional land was made available later and a small zoo was added. It is now known as Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park. A Small lake, tree house and toy train are some other attractions, the parks has to offer. It is thronged by morning walkers in the morning.

This is one of the oldest golf clubs in the country and is the virtual lungs of Patna. To provide themselves with a Gymkhana for outdoor sports the 'white' bureaucracy formed the South Bihar Gymkhana Club in 1916 to maintain in the New capital a golf course, tennis court, cricket ground and two polo grounds. Post-independence the nomenclature was changed to Patna Golf Club as polo had gone out of favour, tennis had shifted to the New Patna Club and the ground was being used only for golf, Screened by copses and serviced by sprinklers its lush green ambience is seen to be believed. It is fast becoming and integral part of the tourist circuit.

This is located west of the new capital area and was built in 1928. It remains the fourth oldest vetenary college in the country. At one time students from all over the country along with some from Bhutan and Iran studied here. The structure is huge, its horizontality broken at places by the introduction of tower like blocks. The ground floor verandahs are arcaded while the first floor is colonnaded. The central portion of the structure is highlighted by due emphasis. The semi circular arches applied where ever have detailing of an emphasized keystone. The complete composition is quite impressive.

  The martyr's memorial was made in the memory of seven freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives during the Quit India Movement in August 1942 for freedom of India. The great sculptor Devi Prasad   built the statue of the seven students with national pride of India 'Tiranga- Tricolor' The foundation stone of martyrs was laid on August 15, 1947

The credit for establishing the first purely women's college in Bihar goes to Reverend Bernard J. Sullivan, Bishop of Patna, who felt that the development of Bihar depended on the empowerment of its women through higher education. The Bishop did it   with the help of the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel of Mangalore, the Patna University Senate having given it the provisional recognition up to the Intermediate of Arts. Within 3 Years, the college came into the limelight of the University life in Patna as its students excelled in the Examination of 1943. And the recognition to the degree standard followed.The Bishop had put his house at Bankipur at the disposal of Patna Women's College.  Soon  the number of students outgrew the space there and it was necessary for the college to have its own building, with all the infrastructure needed for a university college. The college shifted to its new building on the Bailey road, North of the Patna High Court in 1948. For the reasons of ex

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The Medical Missionary Sisters of USA opened the Holy Family Hospital in Padri-ki-Haveli in 1939, in response to an invitation by the then Bishop of Patna, Bishop Sullivan. In 1942 they started a nursing school which also grew into a school of midwifery and pharmacy. Crowded for space the hospital shifted to its new site on the bank of the Ganga at Kurji in November 1958, with the support to many benefactors including the Patna Jesuits. It offers high class multi-disciplinary medical service.   Kurji Holy family Hospital is a well equipped 300 bed institution with modem facilities for services round the clock, by a team of 550 qualified and committed doctors, nurses and other supportive care personnel.The Medical Mission Sisters of Kurji Holy Family Hospital and the Sister's Chariaty of Nazareth entered into a partnership along with other like-minded religious groups and Jesuits, who are working towards an ecological balance and justice in the Health Care System with holistic appr