Kamal () is a
rural municipality
A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.
These include:
* Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
(
gaunpalika
A gaunpalika ( ) is an administrative division in Nepal. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development dissolved the existing Village development committee (Nepal), village developm ...
) out of seven rural municipality located in
Jhapa District of
Province No. 1 of
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. There are a total of 15 municipalities in
Jhapa
Jhapa District (; ) is a district of Koshi Province in eastern Nepal named after a Rajbanshi Surjapuri language word "Jhapa", meaning "to cover" (verb). The 2021 Nepal Census, puts the total population of the district at 994,090. The total a ...
in which 8 are urban and 7 are rural.
According to
Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal has an area of and the total population of the municipality is 44365 as of
Census of Nepal 2011.
and
Lakhanpur which previously were all separate
Village development committee merged to form this new local level body. Fulfilling the requirement of the new
Constitution of Nepal 2015,
Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old
VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
).
The rural municipality is divided into total 7 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in
Kyampa Bazar.
References
External links
Official websiteFinal District 1-75 Corrected Last for RAJPATRA
Rural municipalities in Koshi Province
Populated places in Jhapa District
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
Rural municipalities in Jhapa District
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