The station lies on the northern side of the Ganges and traverses the Kosi basin.

Over the last 250 years, the Kosi has shifted its course over 120 kilometres (75 mi) from east to west.

In August 2008, it picked up an old channel it had abandoned over a century ago near the Nepal–India border, and caused enormous damage in a wide area covering several districts.

The breach in the Kosi embankment which caused the devastating flood in 2008, was repaired in 2009 and the river has since been flowing along its original course.

The entire region portrays "a bleak picture of broken houses, flattened fields and ravaged lives, signs of all the havoc the previous floods and land erosion wreaked here earlier.