Chaudandigadhi ( ne, चौदण्डीगढी) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Udayapur District Udayapur District ( ne, उदयपुर जिल्ला, is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. The district, with Triyuga as its district headquarters, covers an area of and in 2001 had a population of 287,689, in 2 ...

Province No. 1 Province No. 1 (proposed names: Kirat Autonomous State, Kirat, Limbuwan, Khambuwan Rashtriya Morcha, Nepal, Khambuwan, Mount Everest, Sagarmatha, Virata, Birat and Koshi River, Koshi) is the easternmost of the seven Provinces of Nepal, province ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

that was established on 10 March 2017 by merging the former Village development committees

Chaudandi Chaudandi is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone 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 ...

, Siddipur, Hadiya and Sundarpur with the former municipality ''Beltar Basaha''. At the time of the

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...

, the localities out of which Chaudandigadhi would be formed had a joint population of 48,574 people living in 10,519 individual households. It is surrounded by

Belka Municipality Belaka ( ne, बेलका) is a municipality located in Udayapur District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. It is one of four urban municipalities located in Udayapur District. The total area of the municipality is , and its population is 51458 ...

in the east,

Triyuga Triyuga ( ne, त्रियुगा) is one of eight municipalities of Udayapur district of the Province No. 1 of Nepal. Gaighat is the headquarter of the municipality. According to the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 55,291. Accor ...

in the west, the districts of Khotang and Bhojpur in the north and

Sunsari District , nickname = , native_name_lang = , image_skyline = , image_size = , image_alt = , image_caption = Night view of Dharan, Itahari & Tarahara :: Barahakshetra Temple: BPKIHS, Dharan : Dharan Clock Tower , image_map = Sunsari district lo ...

in the south. The Mayor of the municipality is Nirmal kumar Rai and Rita Chaudhari is Deputy Mayor

History

Beltar Bashasa Municipality was established by merging the two Village Development Committee ''Beltar'' and

Bashasa Basaha is a town in Beltar Basaha Municipality in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged to form a new municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal ...

on 18 May 2014. In March 2017 some more Village Development Committee were added to the Municipality:

Siddhipur Siddhipur is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Mahalaxmi Municipality in Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6147 (Male: 2888; Female: 3259) living i ...

, Hadiya and Sundarpur and the municipality was renamed ''Chaudandigadhi'' after the former Village Development Committee

Demographics

The total population of Chaudandigadhi Municipality is 48,574 in which 22,082 are male and 26,492 are female, living in 10,519 households. 31,023 people can read and write, while only 264 people have graduated. The most spoken language in the municipality is

Nepali language Nepali (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a '' lingua franca''. Nepali has official status in the Indian st ...

which is spoken by 25,035 people. Other languages such as Tharu (7,138), Chamling (3,011), Bantwa (2,780), Magar (2,545), Maithili (1,946) are also spoken.

Rai people The Rai are an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Kirati people, Kirat family and primarily Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman linguistic ethnicity. They mainly reside in the eastern parts of Nepal, the Indian states of Sikkim, West Benga ...

are mostly inhabited cast in the municipality with 11,814 individuals. Chhetri (11,082), Tharu (7,215), Magar (3,464), Kami (3,070), Bahun (2,305) are also inhabited gradually.

References

{{Udayapur District Municipalities in Province No. 1 Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Municipalities in Udayapur District