Koshi Koshi or Kōshi may refer to:
Places
*Koshi River, a river in Nepal
*Koshi District, Niigata, a former district in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
* Koshi Province, a historic province of Japan
*Kōshi, Kumamoto, a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
*Ko ...
( ne, कोशी गाउँपालिका) is a
rural municipality
A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.
These include:
* Rural municipalities in Canada, a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, ...
(
gaunpalika
A gaunpalika ( ne, गाउँपालिका, lit=rural municipality, translit=Gāum̐pālikā ) is an administrative division in Nepal. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Devel ...
) out of six rural municipality located in
Sunsari District
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of
Province No. 1 of
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
. There are a total of 12 municipalities in
Sunsari in which 6 are urban and 6 are rural.
According to
Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Koshi has an area of and the total population of the municipality is 43626 as of
Census of Nepal 2011.
,
Paschim Kasuha,
Sripurjabdi and
Haripur 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
Constitution of Nepal 2015 ( ne, नेपालको संविधान २०७२) is the present governing Constitution of Nepal.
Nepal is governed according to the Constitution which came into effect on 20 September 2015, replacing the ...
,
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 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 ...
).
The rural municipality is divided into total 8 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in
Laukahi.
References
External links
Official websiteFinal District 1-75 Corrected Last for RAJPATRA
Rural municipalities in Province No. 1
Populated places in Sunsari District
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
Rural municipalities in Sunsari District
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