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Chandrapur Municipality (other names ''Chandranigahapur'', locally known as ''Chapur'') is a Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone in Madhesh Province of southern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging Chandranigahapur,
This town was named under the late Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher, who used to come for hunting purpose. People started to live here after the naming of this place.
Judibela
Judibela is a town and market center in Chandrapur Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged to form the municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of th ...
, Paurai
Paurai is a town and market center in Chandrapur Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee was merged to form the municipality o ...
, Santpur Matioun, Dumariya Matioun VDCs.
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.
Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,
they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...
it had a population of 13,456 people living in 2,465 individual households.
History
This town was named under the late Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher, who used to come for hunting purpose. People started to live here after the naming of this place.
Development activities
In remembrance of Girija Prasad Koirala. The head of Rautahat Branch's G.P Koirala Study Centre shailendra prasad Gupta does the construction of Dabari where Tourism Area has begun. Cha.pur Hospital, Janata samudayik Hospital, Chandranigahapur Hospital, Road Development, etc. have also commenced. Banks in Chandrapur include Siddhartha Bank Limited, Nepal SBI, Nepal Bank, NCC Bank, Everest Bank, Jyoti bikash Bank, Laxmi Development Bank, Prabhu Bank, Machhapuchhre Bank. There is also a picnic spot as well tourist place called "sahid smiriti park" near the bank of Chandi River. At the centre of the park is a list of names of people in stone script, who contributed their life during the 10 years of revolution (51/52-62/63). It is the major picnic spot for the locals.Sports
In this town many sports like volleyball,football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
and cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
is played. Rautahat Women Football team is the best women team over Nepal. Late Sher Bahadur Thapa Magar of Chandranigahapur should be credited for women soccer accomplishment in Rautahat. His dedication and effort in the field of soccer is unmatched by anyone in Nepal. Besides this martial arts like karate
(; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ...
, wrestling taekwondo etc. is practiced.
Media
Chandrapur has two FM radio stations. * Radio Nunthar F.M. - 102.6 MHz which is a community radio Station. * Gunjan fm -105.3 MHz is another FM station in Chandranigahpur.Developing places
Many of the places are considered to be developed in local context; whereas, some are considered to be ongoing developing places. Some of them are Judibela, Basantapur,Santapur
Santapur is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census
Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistic ...
, Nayabasti, Dumariya
Dumariya is a Ward No.7 of Balara Municipality in Sarlahi District in the Province No.2 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of ...
, Balchanpur, Banbahuary, etc.
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