Shikhar Municipality is a municipality located in Doti District of

Sudurpashchim Province Sudurpashchim Province ( ne, सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश, ''Sudurpashchim Province'') (''Far-West Province'') is one of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September ...

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 ...

. It is surrounded by

Dipayal Silgadhi Dipayal Silgadhi ( ne, दिपायल सिलगढी) is a municipality and the district headquarter of Doti District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. Previously, it also served as the headquarter of the Far-Western Development Region. ...

in the East, Dadeldhura District in the West, Adarsha in the North and K. I. Singh and

Jorayal Jorayal ( ne, जोरायल) is a Gaupalika in Doti District in the Sudurpashchim Province of far-western Nepal. Jorayal has a population of 20824.The land area is 419.09 km2. Demographics At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Joraya ...

in the South.

History

On 10 March 2017

Government of Nepal The Government of Nepal ( ne, नेपाल सरकार) is the federal executive authority of Nepal. Prior to the abolition of the Nepali monarchy in 2006 (became republic in 2008), it was officially known as His Majesty's Government. T ...

announced 744 local level units as per the new constitution of Nepal 2015. thus this local level unit came into existence. Total area of the municipality is and total population of the municipality (according to

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 ...

) is 31801. The municipality is divided into 11 wards. Kapalleki,

Mudhegaun Mudhegaun is a village development committee in Doti District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Wo ...

, Mudabhara,

Tijali Tijali is a Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee in Doti District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2044. References External linksUN map of the munic ...

Pachanali Pachanali is a village development committee in Doti District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Wo ...

Latamandau Latamandau is a village development committee in Doti District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. W ...

, Jijodamandau, Banalek and Warpata villages were merged to form this new local level unit.

Demographics

At the time of the

, Shikhar Municipality had a population of 32,326. Of these, 97.8% spoke Doteli, 1.9%

Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...

, 0.1% Maithili, 0.1%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 53.8% were Chhetri, 14.6%

Kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...

, 11.2% Hill Brahmin, 5.2% Damai/Dholi, 4.9% other

Dalit Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna syste ...

, 3.9% Thakuri, 2.1% Lohar, 1.6% Sarki, 0.8% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.5% Badi, 0.4% other Terai, 0.3%

Newar Newar (; new, नेवार, endonym: Newa; new, नेवा, Pracalit script:) or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisatio ...

, 0.2%

Musalman Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraham ...

, 0.1%

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

, 0.1% Gurung, 0.1%

Chamar Chamar is a Dalit community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of affirmative action. Historically subject to untouchability, they were traditionally outside the Hindu ritual ranking system of castes known as varna. ...

/Harijan/Ram, 0.1% Magar and 0.2% others. In terms of religion, 99.7% were

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

and 0.2%

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

. In terms of literacy, 54.2% could read and write, 2.7% could only read and 43.0% could neither read nor write. NepalMap Literac

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References

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