Mehsi, Bihar

Mehsi Maheshi or Mesi
City
V.I.P Rd, Chowk Bazar in Mehsi
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Coordinates: 26°21′N85°07′E / 26.35°N 85.11°E / 26.35; 85.11
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	East Champaran
Established	1216 AD
Founded by	Mirja Halim Shah(R.A)
Nagar Palika	Kaswa Mehsi
Government
• Type	Nagar Panchayat
• Body	Ward - (15)
•  MLA	Sheyambabu Yadav
•  Member of Parliament	Radhe Mohan Singh
• Rank	42.68km
Elevation	64 m (210 ft)
Population  (2025 estimate)
• Total	80,000 (town) [1]
Demonym	'mehsiwashi
Languages
• Official	Bhojpuri, Urdu, Hindi, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	845426 [2] , 845406
Telephone code	06257
ISO 3166 code	IN-BR
Vehicle registration	BR05
Neighbors	Kaswa Mehsi (Office), Harpur, Ojhilpur, Rajepur, Salempur (town), Hardo Patti, bhurkurwa in the Mehsi Block
Avg. summer temperature	42 °C (108 °F)
Lok Sabha constituency	3. Purvi Champaran
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Pipra, Mehsi
Website	eastchamparan.bih.nic.in

Mehsi is a CD Block and Mehsi Nagar Panchayat City and a municipality in the Purvi Champaran district ^{[ citation needed ]} in the Indian state of Bihar. ^[3]

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 Business agriculture. ^[4]

River

The perennial Budhi Gandak river flows near the town of Mehsi which is a tributary of the Ganga river. ^[5]

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. ^[6] It is also the closest railway station to Kesaria Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

Air

The nearest airport is Darbhanga airport. ^[3] and Patna Airport.

Road

India's 2nd Longest National Highway, NH -27, passes through Mehsi.

References

1. "Mehsi Bazar Nagar Parishad City Population Census 2011-2022 | Bihar".
2. "Mehsi Pin Code". www.pincodeinfo.online.
3. "Mehsi in India", India9.com, 30 June 2005, web: i9-Mehsi.
4. "Mehsi Button Industry | An Official Website of East Champaran, Motihari | India" . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
5. 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.
6. "Mehsi Railway Station Forum/Discussion - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 16 September 2021.

External links

• District Administration Website