Culture

Eastern Uttar Pradesh has powerful and important cities like Kashi, Ayodhya, Allahabad and Gorakhpur which are famous for holy and traditional lands. Sarnath near Varanasi is the place where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon and Lumbani is the place which is birth place of Lord Buddha.

Culture of Purvanchal is very rich and famous where situated Ayodhya Lord Ram Birthplace, Lord Shiv place Varanasi, Sangam place Allahabad and Guru Gorakhnath place Gorakhpur.

Business

Purvanchal is now developing as industrial hub like GIDA (Gorakhpur Industrial Development Authority) and UPSIDC VARANSI. Varanasi is the famous for saree industries called Banarasi Saree which are exporting throughout India and muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture industry.

Other famous textile industries in Tanda (Ambedkar Nagar) and Sant Kabir Nagar district are working and having good exporting in India and other countries. Bhadohi is famous for Kalin udyog. Sonbhadra is famous for thermal power corporation where produce power.

Hospitals

The history of Medical Education in Varanasi is at least 2500 years old. It has produced great scholars of Ayurveda like Divodas Dhanwantri and Charaka.

AIIMS is also under construction in Gorakhpur which will be useful to control the chikungunya and other viral infections.

Baba Raghav Das Medical College-Gorakhpur, Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research-Gorakhpur, National Seed Research and Training Centre-Varanasi, Hanuman Prasad Poddar Cancer Hospital and Research Institute-Gorakhpur, Central Hindu College-Varanasi, Imania Arabic College-Varanasi

Education

Purvanchal is famous about Colleges, universities and schools, like The University of Allahabad, Banaras Hindu University, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University,Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University.

Besides these other Engineering and medical colleges are available to quality education, some famous colleges and schools are listed on this portal and you can review and give rating also.