Khajura Rural Municipality Explained

Khajura Rural Municipality
Other Name:Khajura Bajaar
Official Name:खजुरा गाउँपालिका
Native Name:खजुरा गाउँपालिका
Nickname:खजुरा बजार
Settlement Type:Municipality
Motto:सम्बृद्द खजुरा, हाम्रो चाहना
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Pushpin Map:Nepal Lumbini Province# Nepal
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Lumbini Province
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Nepal
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Lumbini Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Banke District
Government Type:rural council
Leader Title:Chairperson
Leader Name:Dambar Bahadur BK (Tuphan)
Leader Title1:Deputy-Chairperson
Leader Name1:Manju Malla
Established Title:Established
Established Date:10 March 2017
Population As Of:2011
Population Total:50,961
Population Rank:3rd (Nepal)
Timezone:Nepal Time
Utc Offset:+5:45
Coordinates:28.2°N 122°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code:081-560XXX
Website:http://www.khajuramun.gov.np/

Khajura Rural Municipality also known as Khajura Bajaar is a municipality in Banke District in the Bheri Zone in mid-western Nepal.[1] The municipality was established on 10 March 2017 by merging the existing six Village Development Committees i.e. Radhapur, Sitapur, Bageshwari, Sonpur, Udharapur, Raniyapur. The town is in Nepalganj-Gulariya highway and one of the fastest developing places in Nepal. A neighboring city Nepalgunj is on east(8 km), and further 6 km is the Indian border. In fact it is a growing city in the western region of Nepal.

It is accessible by air (Nepalgunj Airport) and by road (559 km west of Kathmandu).

Khajura Rural Municipality

Khajura will become the third municipality in the Banke District, with the first being Nepalgunj and second being Kohalpur. As a municipality, Khajura Bajaar will assume greater local government autonomy and greater financial resources as part of the central governments' effort to promote decentralized power.

The municipality status of Kohalpur has been repeatedly stalled due to the failure to ratify the national constitution. A fourth deadline to ratify the constitution was missed on 27 May 2012.[2]

Geography

Khajura Bajaar is located in the Banke District in the Mid-West Region of Nepal (Therai region), with a total area of 2816.6 hectares. The climate is subtropical and the temperature varies between a maximum of 46 °C and minimum of -2 °C.

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Khajura Rural Municipality had a population of 50,990. Of these, 55.2% spoke Nepali, 26.3% Urdu, 13.2% Awadhi, 2.5% Tharu, 1.6% Magar, 0.4% Newar, 0.3% Maithili, 0.2% Gurung and 0.3% other languages as their first language.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 26.7% were Musalman, 15.6% Chhetri, 11.8% Magar, 9.9% Kami, 6.9% Hill Brahmin, 4.1% Yadav, 4.0% Thakuri, 3.6% Tharu, 2.4% Gurung and 15.0% others.

In terms of religion, 68.1% were Hindu, 26.7% Muslim, 2.8% Buddhist and 2.4% Christian.[3]

Infrastructure and Basic Services

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gaviria, G., Lee, J., Ospina, P., Soloman, S. and Suharyanto I.. 'Kohalpur: strategic transition from VDC to municipality and potentials for sustainable growth along a strategic highway junction', in Urban Management 2012 Applied Research Project: Four Case Studies in Nepal. 2012. Technische Universitat Berlin. Berlin.
  2. News: Gurubacharya . Binaj . Nepal Fails to Agree on Constitution . AP . 29 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120529043202/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0%2C8599%2C2115917%2C00.html . 29 May 2012 .
  3. NepalMap Demographics https://nepalmap.org/profiles/local-57004-khajura/
  4. Web site: Nepal Cancer Hospital - Khajura, Banke . Nepal Cancer Hospital . 29 August 2018.