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Bihta is a township and Block in Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is located 28 km west of Patna. Bihta is also upcoming satellite town of Patna.It is also popular for Swami Sahajanand Saraswati ashram.GeographyBihta is 28 km west of Patna and is an hour drive from the capital. It is the strategic location named as greater patna and many real estate companies are investing over there.Educational institutesIIT Patna's campus is located in parameters of Amhara and Dilawarpur village of Bihta block, at a site. Bihar government had already allotted of land at Amhara village in Bihta to NIT Patna. There is Kendriya Vidyalaya, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar laid the foundation stone of an Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) medical college and hospital in Bihta in September 2009. The 500-bed ESIC hospital and college is coming up on a 25-acre plot here at a cost of 523 crore.The medical college and hospital would become functional in a record time of two years. The first batch of MBBS students will be admitted in 2013.Union minister Kapil Sibal on 3 June 2013 laid the foundation stone of the permanent campus of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) at Bihta.