Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh

Pratapgarh(Hindi:प्रतापगढ) district is one of the of   of, and  town is the district headquarters. Pratapgarh district is a part of. Pratapgarh district, lies between 25o34' and 26o 11' latitudes while between 81o19' and 82o27' longitudes. Primarily, an agrarian district, for a while now, Pratapgarh has risen in ranks as the top producer of Aonla fruit. It is a multi-purpose fruit, is extremely rich in vitamin C, helps cure gastro-intestinal disorders, is said to encourage youth and liveliness and is exported all over and possibly over world in form of sweets and medicines. Pratapgarh on the - main road at a distance of 39 km from and 61 Km from. It is one of the older districts of, that came into existence in the year 1858. It is at a height of 137 Mt. from sea level.

History
The District that forms a part of Division is named after its headquarters town Bela Pratabgarh, commonly know as Pratapgarh. Pratap Singh, a raja of the locality who flourished between 1628-1682, fixed his headquarters at Rampur near old town of Aror. There he built a garh (fort) and called it Pratabgarh after his own name. Subsequently the locality around the fort came to be known as Pratapgarh. When the district was constituted in 1858 its headquarters was established at Bela which came to be known as Bela Pratapgarh, the name Bela presumably being derived from the temple of Bela Bhawani on the bank of river Sai.GHUSMESHWAR NATH DHAM[SHIVJI TEMPLE]IS ONE OF THE FAMOUSE TEMPLE IN PRATAPGARH NEAR LALGANJ TAHSEEL SECOND TEMPLE IN AGAI VILLAGE FAMOUSE AS DURGAN BHAWANI MA.