Bhadrabas Explained

Official Name:Bhadrabas
Native Name:भद्रवास
Settlement Type:Village of Kageshwari-Manohara Municipality
Pushpin Map:Nepal
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Nepal
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Nepal
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:No. 3
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Kathmandu
Population As Of:2011
Population Total:2,388
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Population Blank2:Hindu
Timezone:Nepal Time
Utc Offset:+5:45
Coordinates:27.74°N 85.43°W

Bhadrabas is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Kageshwari-Manohara Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal, located approximately 15km (09miles) northeast of Kathmandu. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 2,388 and had 503 houses in it.[1] The oldest high school in the eastern Kathmandu Valley, Adarsh Madhayamik Vidhalaya is located in Bhadrabas. The Nepal Red Cross Society is active in Bhadrabas and it has notable health centre. In 1984, a tobacco smoking World Health Organization questionnaire was given to the inhabitants of Bhadrabas to survey smoking trends in the country.[2]

Vertebrate fossil remains have been found northeast of the village.[3]

References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 2016-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130124043556/http://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/VDC_Municipality.pdf . 2013-01-24 .
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=iomVoBt-qFcC&dq=Bhadrabas&pg=PA268 Tobacco and Health
  3. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ancientnepal/pdf/ancient_nepal_82_04.pdf A Vertebrate Fossil Find in the Kathmandu Valley