Mehsi
Mehsi is a High Deployment City and Urban Headquarter Kasba Mehsi located in the East Champaran of Bihar.[1] It is a part of the Tirhut Division.[2] in the Indian state of Bihar. The town is the entry point of the Purvi Champaran district. There are many smaller factories manufacturing buttons for the clothing Industry, although most of the population depends upon commercial business and agriculture.
Mehsi | |
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City | |
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| Nickname: city of Mahesh Rai | |
  Mehsi Location in Bihar, India | |
| Coordinates: 26.35°N 85.11°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | East Champaran |
| Division | Tirhut |
| Established | 1216 AD |
| Founded by | Data Mirja Halim |
| Nagar Palika Office | Kasba Mehsi in Mehsi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Nagar Palika |
| • Body | Ward - (15) |
| • Rank | 18.68 km² |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 25,995 |
| Demonym | Kasbawashi |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Urdu, Hindi , Bhojpuri |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 845426, 845406, 843111 |
| Telephone code | +91-6257 |
| Vehicle registration | BR05 |
| Area | Rajepur, Hardo Patti, Ismaila, Bhurkurwa, Bakhari, Puran Chhapra, Harpur, Ojhilpur |
| Avg. summer temperature | 42 °C (108 °F) |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Purvi Champaran |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Pipra |
| Website | eastchamparan |
Mehsi is an old Modern city of the before Mughal Empire, which was established in by Data Mirza Halim Shah in the name of Mahesh Rai.
Location
Mehsi is located 194 kilometres (121 mi) north of Patna and 41.2 kilometres (26 mi) north of Muzaffarpur and 38.2 kilometres (24 mi) south of Motihari headquarter 40 km .[3] The National Highway 28 passes through Mehsi. The nearest airport is Patna Airport. Another nearest airport is Darbhanga Airport which starts functioning in Nov. 2020. Mehsi is an urban part of East Champaran and Nagar Panchayat Mehsi consists of total 15 wards
Industry
Mehsi industry includes shell buttons while other resources harvested are litchi and mango fruits. Mehsi is the major producer of these fruits in India.[3]
River
The perennial Budhi Gandak river flows near the town of Mehsi which is a tributary of the Ganga river.
Connectivity
Railways
Mehsi town, through railway, is directly connected to the major Indian cities like – Patna, Varanasi, Haridwar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Allahabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, Amritsar, Guwahati, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Ranchi, Raipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad etc. Mehsi railway station is situated on Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur main line under the Samastipur railway division of East Central Railway zone.[4] It is also the closest railway station to Kesaria Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site.
Air
The nearest airport is Darbhanga airport.
References
- St Das, Anand (20 October 2007). "Law's Arm: 13 Years Long". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- "IIS Windows Server".
- "Mehsi in India", India9.com, 30 June 2005, web: i9-Mehsi.
- "Mehsi Railway Station Forum/Discussion - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
External links
community development blocks.[2]
- Begam, Shama; Khan, R. A. (1 December 2002). "Impact of the Pollution of River Burhi Gandak on Plankton and Maicofauna at Mehsi, North Bihar Caused by Sugar Mills and Mother of Pearl Button Industries". Records of the Zoological Survey of India. 100 (3–4): 85. doi:10.26515/rzsi/v100/i3-4/2002/159588. ISSN 2581-8686. S2CID 251695899.
- "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.