Inaruwa, Sunsari

Inaruwa ( Nepali: इनरुवा) is a municipality and headquarters of Sunsari District located east of the Koshi Barrage and east of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in Province No. 1, Nepal. It covers an area of .

Inaruwa Municipality is a district headquarters of Sunsari District under Province No. 1 of Nepal. Former VDCs like Babiya , Madhesa, Dumraha, Jalpapur , Chandbela were merged into a municipality . According to the geographical demarcation, the name of the town is Inaruwa, surrounded by Gadhi Municipality in the east, Bhokraha rural Municipality in the west, Itahari Sub-metropolitan Municipality and Ramdhuni Municipality in the north and Harinagar Municipality in the south. The municipality is politically divided into 10 wards. Inaruwa is one of the six municipalities in the district, while Ramdhuni, Duhabi and Barah are the other municipalities. This Inaruwa Municipality has become a municipality from the Panchayat in the year 2047 BS. Being headquarter of Sunsari district , It homes all district offices like District court , District administrative office , Malpot Karyalaya , नापी कार्यालय .

History

Before Annexation in Nepal

In Vedic Period , Sunsari was part of Mithila region along with Jhapa and Morang.
Later in 18 th century, King Mawrong Hang annexed them all into Limbuwan.Also, Meanwhile Gorkha King Prithivi Narayan Shah was on a campaign to conquer all the hill kingdoms into his Empire. He attacked Limbuwan on two fronts. After the Limbuwan Gorkha War 1771-1774 AD, the Limbu ministers of Morang, and Limbu rulers of the ten principalities came to an agreement with the King of Gorkha. With the Limbuwan Gorkha treaty of 1774, Limbuwan was annexed to Nepal.& Hence , It was formed as part of Nepal.

After Anexation in Nepal

During the reign of Bhim shumsher , this land, which has been a forest for thousands of years, is inhabited by slopes , trees, forest. The aim to increase the agricultural production of the two settlements. As the number of Nepali people moving to big cities for settlements including Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma and Assam in India without finding employment in the country, the deforestation work started in the year 1988, acknowledging the importance of manpower in the country. Although the area has been a densely forested area for thousands of years, a dilapidated dug-out well at the east-north side of the Inaruwa Hospital has now become public.

Even after that, the robbers from India were lurking in the same dug wells all day and night, and even hiding in the forest. Later, during deforestation, everyone saw that well as a 'remnant'. People around the area symbolically called ' इनार' and to indicate that the place where the well was found is related to a root word or to give the meaning of "वाला". concerned with the related path becomes Inaruwa (इनार वाला). Inaruwa seems to be a meaningful place. This is why Inaruwa is often called Inaruwa (also Inarwa) by the Maithili, Tharauti and Bhojpuri speaking people of Terai.

Religious places

Religious places in the municipality include:
*Satyanarayan Mandir , Inaruwa 1
*Ram Janaki Mandir , Inaruwa 7
*Maa Bhagwati Mandir, Inaruwa 1
*Shiv Mandir , Inaruwa 1
*Maa Durga Mandir , Inaruwa 2
*Radha Krishna Mandir, Inaruwa 3

*Hanuman Mandir, Inaruwa 4
*Latidevi Than , Inaruwa 5
*Jama masjid, Inaruwa 4
*LaxmiNarayan Mandir, Inaruwa 2
*Hatti ghoda than , Inaruwa 8

Administration

A municipality in Nepal is an administrative division in the Provinces of Nepal .It functions as a sub-unit of a district.

**Mayor - Kedar Bhandari
** Deputy Mayor - Binita Mehta
**Ward Chairman
***Ward 1 - Pramod Pokhrel
***Ward 2 - Bishwanath Thakur
***Ward 3 - Ramesh Kumar shrestha
***Ward 4 - Bauwalal Mehta
***Ward 5 - Anil Kumar Pokhrel
***Ward 6 - Suman Thapa
***Ward 7 - Himmat Singh Khawas
***Ward 8 - Ashok Kumar sahu Teli
***Ward 9 - Wasir muddin Mansuri
***Ward 10 - MD. Khalil Aktar

**Head Officer - Dasrath Rai
**Administration , Plan and Monitoring - Kapildev Mehta
***Information and Communication officer - Niraj Pokhrel
***Administration planning and Monitoring - Bhagwat Mehta
***Jinsi - Kumar Niraula
**Finance Officer -Ashok Mehta
***Revenue Dept. - Kumari Bhattarai
**Infrastructure Development and Management - Er. Umeshwor Mehta
***Building and housing -Er. Sanjay Mehta
***Disaster management - Binod Bhattarai
***Vehicle - Geeta Kumari Subedi
***City Police - Hukumdhwaj Karki
**Health care department - Kapleshwor Shah
**Education, Youth & sports - Dilliraj Niraula
**Economic development - Jeevan Kumar Bhattarai
**Law department - Baburam Bhattarai
Bold names are Adhikrit

Geography

Inaruwa lies eastern part of Nepal . It covers 77.92 km² area , sharing boundaries with Ramdhuni Municipality, Harinagar gaupalika, gadhi gaupalika, Itahari sub-metropolitan. It has 10 wards.
Geographically, it is terai with connecting various places. Inaruwa has prennial rivers like sunsari river .

The more aesthetic beauty is added by greenery in lands as majority depends on agriculture. The plane terai levels at 75 m (approx) and is rich in fertility of soil.

Demographics

Census 2011

As of 2011 Inaruwa Municipality had a population of 63,593 population, with 31,195 males and 32,398 females. Ward 9 had the highest population of 8,526, and ward 5 had lowest population with 8,526.

In the same year, Inaruwa had 13,020 households, with the highest number of 1,721 in ward 3, and the lowest number of 1,066 in ward 10.

Languages

Religion

Preliminary census 2021

According to the preliminary report of the 2021 census, the total number of families is 16931, the total population is 75,932, out of which there are 37,273 males and 38,647 females, with a sex ratio of 0.964 (M/F).

Health care

Inaruwa hospital provides 24 hours emergency service . It provides specialist for various human health care. It serve even various programs under government collaboration to provide enough services like health campaign at each ward free of cost. It even provide services under Health insurance policy.
Also each ward of Inaruwa is provided with health posts for primary care.

Sports

Inaruwa has stadium located behind district hospital. Inaruwa is hub for sports like volleyball, football, cricket and many more.
The town hosts national-level sports and tournaments every year, and has hosted many sport tournaments, mainly cricket and football, including the President Gold Cup, Mayor cup, Manmohan Smirti Cup, and Sunsari Premier League.

Transportation

Inaruwa lies on the Mahendra Highway and acts as a transport hub between surrounding villages and the cities of Itahari, Biratnagar and Jhumka with Roadways. The nearest airport is Biratnagar Airport, away.
Inaruwa has well finished roadways . It is situated in a fertile plain.Situated on Mahendra Highway and provide diversion towards Biratnagar. It has also road way linking UpTo India border via Dewangunj and Bhutaha.

Inaruwa lies on the Mahendra Highway and acts as a transport hub between surrounding villages and the cities of Itahari, Biratnagar .

Inaruwa has newly built station for bus and provide links to Prakashpur, Bhutaha, junction on Mahendra Highway .

Media

Inaruwa has numerous local newspaper publications , Radio stations as well as provided by all national newspapers, televisios . Daily newspapers like ''Pratikchhan daily'' , Radio stations like ''Popular FM , Advance FM ,'' National daily newspapers like ''The Kathmandu post, The Himalayan Times , The Annapurna post ,'' all TV channels like '' kantipur television , Galaxy News , Prime News'' etc. Provide services . Also , few of them provide e- News services via Facebook, Twitter.

Education

Inaruwa has 68 educational institutions, including playgroup, primary, secondary and higher education up to masters degree level. Inaruwa has six colleges for undergraduate and postgraduate education. It has a 60.54% literacy rate. Also, a few primary public schools have initiated English-medium education.

According to latest data as published by Inaruwa municipality, 27 public schools with highly appreciated technology like E-attendance and Wi-fi. All schools follows annual calendar and plans , policies.

Few schools names are :

''Bal Mandir School''

''Saraswati higher secondary school''

''Rajajee Ramjee mahato(Dash)Secondary School''

''Janta secondary school''

''Sharada secondary school''

''Sunsari Multiple Campus''

Mayors

Economic Activities

The major economic activities in Inaruwa are Agriculture , Local business, livestock, poultry , Milk, Mineral water production , Rice production.

Climate

Summer season (mar-Jun) is quite hot and wet . Temperature here, reaches Upto 35-38°C

winter season,(Dec-Feb) of Inaruwa is cold and dry temperature decreases Upto 8-9 °C.

In July-September , It receives heavy rainfall . About 2007 mm of precipitation falls annually. There is 4 mm of precipitation in December. In July, the precipitation reaches its peak, with an average of 571 mm.

2022

References

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Populated places in Sunsari District
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Nepal municipalities established in 1986
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