Saran District is one of the thirty-seven districts of Bihar state, India. The district, part of Saran Division, is also known as Chapra district after the headquarters of the district - Chapra. Hathwa Raj was a zamindari in the Saran Division of Bihar belonging to Bhumihar Brahmins which encompassed 1,365 villages, was inhabited by more than 391,000 people, and produced an annual rental of almost a million rupees.

Saran district occupies an area of 2,641 square kilometres (1,020 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to Canada's Moresby Island.

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Saran one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 36 districts in Bihar currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

According to the 2011 census Saran district has a population of 3,943,098 , roughly equal to the nation of Liberia or the US state of Oregon. This gives it a ranking of 60th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 1,493 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,870 /sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.37 %. Saran has a sex ratio of 949 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 68.57 %.

Rabri Devi (born 1959) served three terms as the Chief Minister, of Bihar, India, as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party, between 1997 and 2005. She is the wife of the Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar and former Railway Minister of India. Devi has subsequently beenm^[when?] a Member of the Legislative Council for Bihar Vidhan Parishad.^{[citation needed]}

Rabri Devi Yadav was born to Sib Prasad Chaudhary of Salarkalan, Line Bazar, Gopalganj.

Devi's appointment as the Chief Minister of Bihar was considered as one of the most unexpected and awkward decisions^{[citation needed]} of the entire Indian political history because she was a traditional housewife and had no interest nor any prior experience in politics until then.^{[citation needed]} The move fitted well with the needs of the government in power at the time as Lalu Prasad Yadav had to quit as the Chief Minister of Bihar after the Fodder scam was revealed, but he was alleged to have been controlling the affairs by giving his wife the coveted post of the head of the state government.^{[citation needed]} It was alleged that he continued to act and administer as a de facto chief minister with his wife being a ceremonial head.^{[citation needed]} She became the first woman Chief Minister of Bihar on 25 July 1997.

Letika Saran is the former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier she served as the 36th Commissioner of Police in Chennai. She is the only woman to head a metropolitan police organisation in India. Before that she was an Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP).

Saran was born on March 31, 1952 at Idukki district in Kerala. She belongs to the 1976 batch of the Indian Police Service. Her earlier postings include ADGP; Training and Project Director, Tamil Nadu Police Academy; Inspector-General of Police, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC). On 20 April 2006, she became the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai. On 8 January 2010, she was appointed as Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu. She is only the second female DGP of a state in India and the first for Tamil Nadu. In October, the Madras High Court has struck down upon its appointment of Letika Saran.

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Shyam Saran (born September 4, 1946) was Foreign Secretary with the Government of India.

He is a 1970 batch Indian Foreign Service officer. Before this, he has served as Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Indonesia and Myanmar, High Commissioner to Mauritius, Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo and Counsellor in the Indian Embassy in Beijing.He also served as India's special Envoy for Climate change from april 2008 to february 2010.

In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

As foreign secretary, he visited China in March 2005 for the 15th meeting of the India-China Joint Working Group on the boundary issue.

In April 2006, he said that India has no obligation to define its minimum credible nuclear-deterrent after United States Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher suggested that India "further define" its minimum deterrent. During his tenure, Saran helped negotiate the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement.

Even though the Prime Minister's Office was willing to extended his tenure as foreign secretary when he was set to retire in September 2006, Mr. Saran did retire. He was an advisor to the Prime Minister specializing in nuclear issues, as well as the Indian envoy on climate change. He quit office on 19th February 2010. He is current Chairman of the Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS) thinktank and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi.

Prabhunath Singh (born 20 November 1953) is a politician from Bihar, India, and was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Maharajganj constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), political party.

According to the National Election Watch, Prabhunath Singh was among the more serious criminals contesting the Indian general elections, 2009. He is the main accused in a double murder case and has around two dozen more criminal cases pending against him. He also faces cases related to assaults on government officials.^{[citation needed]} But he is considered close to Nitish Kumar and JD-U national president Sharad Yadav and also Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Delhi.^{[citation needed]}

While he was one of the few criminal-politicians who were given a JD-U nomination in the 2009 elections, he lost narrowly (less than 3000 votes) to RJD's Uma Shanker Singh.