Fikkal or Phikkal Bazar ( ne, फिक्कल बजार) is a former Village Development Committee (VDC) and now a part of

Suryodaya Municipality Suryodaya Municipality is a municipality located in Koshi Pradesh of Nepal in Ilam district. Suryodaya is the Nepali translation for “Sunrise". It was formed by merging three village development committees i.e. Phikal Bazar, Panchakanya and K ...

(ward no.-10) in

Ilam District Ilam district ( ne, इलाम जिल्ला) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. It is a Hill district and covers . The 2011 census counted 290,254 population. The municipality of Ilam is the district headquar ...

Koshi Province was an ancient province or region of Japan in what is now the Hokuriku region. The region as a whole was sometimes referred to as . Koshi appears as one of the original provinces in the '' Nihon Shoki''. In 598 AD, the residents of Koshi prese ...

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 ...

. Fikkal Bazar is a business hub of eastern Ilam. It lies on the

Mechi Highway Mechi Highway ( Nepali: मेची राजमार्ग) is a two-lane freeway in Eastern Nepal, spanning about 268 kilometers in length. The highway connects all the districts of Mechi zone, hence the name ''Mechi''. It runs from the VDC of ...

. It is directly linked by road to

Darjeeling Darjeeling (, , ) is a town and municipality in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the easternmost province of Nepal, ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, which sits away. Tea leaf, processed tea, ginger, broomsticks, and cardamom are among the major trade items of this town. In 2014, Phikkal VDC was merged with

Kanyam Kanyam कन्याम is a town and a tourist destination in Ilam District of Nepal. This comes under Suryodaya Municipality in Ilam District in the Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Feder ...

and

Panchakanya ''Panchakanya'' ( sa, पञ्चकन्या, IAST:, ) is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited. They are Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara, and Mandodari. ...

to form the new Suryodaya Municipality.Govt announces 72 new municipalities
The Kathmandu Post Fikkal has a weekly

Haat Haat or hat, even haat bazaar, is an open-air market that serves as a trading venue for local people in rural areas and towns of Indian subcontinent, especially in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Haat bazaars are conducted on a regular ba ...

on Thursdays' where local vendors and farmers gather to trade their products.

Climate

References

External links

UN map of the municipalities of Ilam District
Populated places in Ilam District Bazaars in Nepal {{IlamNP-geo-stub