Araria Wasim Rahi Khan Actor at TV Serial & Bollywood Film Industry Village in Kasaila Madanpur. Araria. Subrata Roy founder and chairman of Sahara India was born in Ashram Mohalla of the city. Taslimuddin Ex member of Loksabha belongs to Jokihat provision of the District. Araria is the natural habitat of the Gangetic Dolphins.At the Local rivers of Araria Gangetic Dolphins(South Asian river dolphin) are found. Scientific name of the dolphin is Platanista Gangetica. Average length of dolphins are 2.5 meter. Araria is accessible to other parts of India by railways via Katihar Junction railway station Nearest Railway Station is Araria
John Anderson (zoologist) and compared with "Orcaella fluminalis" and the Gangetic dolphin, "Plantanista gangetica". In 1875-6 he travelled to the same area under Colonel Horace Browne. This was cut short due to the murder of the consular officer Augustus Raymond Margary. Anderson made a third expedition for the Indian Museum in 1881–2 to the Mergui archipelago, Burma. Anderson made comparative studies of anatomy of the species that he collected. He worked on reptiles, birds as well as mammals such as of the genus "Hylomys". He also wrote on the ethnology of the Selungs of the Mergui archipelago. Many of the plant specimens that