Sundar Haraicha ( ne, सुन्दर हरैचा) is a

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 ...

Morang District Morang District ( ne, मोरङ जिल्ला ) is located in Province No. 1 in eastern Nepal. It is an Outer Terai district. It borders with Bihar, India to the South, Jhapa to the East, Dhankuta and Panchthar to the North, and Suns ...

Province No. 1 Province No. 1 (proposed names: Kirat Autonomous State, Kirat, Limbuwan, Khambuwan Rashtriya Morcha, Nepal, Khambuwan, Mount Everest, Sagarmatha, Virata, Birat and Koshi River, Koshi) is the easternmost of the seven Provinces of Nepal, province ...

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 centered around

Biratchowk Biratchowk is a town in Sundar Haraicha, Morang District in the Koshi Zone of south-eastern Nepal which is considered as the emerging city in Morang District. Lying on the east-west highway, Biratchowk is the gateway to Biratnagar, the headquar ...

town which is the gateway to

Biratnagar Biratnagar () is a metropolitan city in Nepal, which serves as the capital of Province No. 1. With a population of 242,548 as per the 2011 census, it is the largest city in the province and also the headquarters of Morang district. As per the p ...

. It borders

Itahari Itahari ( ne, ईटहरी) is a Municipalities in Province No. 1, sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Itahari city is business hub of eastern Nepal. It is the List of cities of Nepal, second most populous ...

Sub- Metropolitan city to the West,

Dharan Dharan ( ne, धरान) a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District of Province No. 1, Nepal, which was established as a fourth municipality in the Kingdom in 1958. It is the third most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar and It ...

Sub- Metropolitan city to the Northwest and

Belbari Belbari, ( ne, बेलबारी) officially known as Belbari municipality, is one of the major suburb of Morang district, Province No. 1. It lies in the eastern Terai region of Nepal. It was officially upgraded to become a municipality in ...

municipality to the East and is connected by the

Mahendra Highway Mahendra Highway (), also called East-West Highway () runs across the Terai geographical region of Nepal, from Mechinagar in the east to Bhim Datta in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal a ...

. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the Eastern Nepal and the second largest city of Morang district after

with 121,305 inhabitants living in 26,677 households. It consists the town centres of

and Gothgaun which are parts of the ''Greater Birat Development Area'' which incorporates the cities of

-Gothgau-

-Dharan primarily located on the

Koshi Highway Koshi Highway ( ne, कोशी राजमार्ग) or H08 is a 390 km long planned highway located in Province No. 1 of Nepal. It is north-south highway which is understood to be shortest highway which connects India to China across ...

in Eastern Nepal, with an estimated total urban agglomerated population of 804,300 people living in 159,332 households. It was established on 10 March 2017 by merging the former municipalities ''Sundar Dulari(Sundarpur VDC and Dulari VDC)'' and ''Koshi Haraicha(Indrapur VDC, Mirgulia VDC and Haraicha VDC)''. At the time of the

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 ...

, the localities formed had a joint population of 80,518 people living in 18,610 individual households.

History

On 10 March 2017, Sundar Haraicha was created through merging the former municipalities Sundar Dulari and Koshi Haraicha. The total population of all the predecessor villages of this municipality stands at 80,518 people living in 18,610 individual households in 2011 Nepal census.

Sundar Dulari

Sundar Dulari Municipality was a

in south-eastern

. The municipality was formed by the Government of Nepal merging two villages i.e. Sundarpur and Dulari in May 2014. 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. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

it had a population of 6860 people living in 1262 individual households. Sundarpur had a population of 18,765 and Dulari had a population of 14,030 in the

making the total population of Sundar-Dulari at 32,795 inhabitants in 2011.

Koshi Haraicha

Koshi Haraicha Municipality was a municipality in

in south-eastern

. Earlier, the municipality was formed merging the three existing villages, Haraicha, Mrigaulia, and Indrapur, in May 2014. At the time of the

it had a population of 10,592 living in 1,930 households. The three predecessor villages, Haraicha, Mrigaulia, and Indrapur had a population of 6,484, 14,117 and 27,122 inhabitants in

making a total of 47,723 inhabitants.

Transportation

(East-West Highway) passes 21 km through Sundar Haraicha Municipality and links the municipality to the national main road link of Nepal.

Major Town Centers

* Aadarsha Chowk *

* Salakpur * GothGaun * Gachhiya * Haraicha * Indrapur * Sundarpur * Khorsane *Belepur * Laxmipur * Kumargaun * Bansbari Sundarpur * Tinpaini Sundarpur * Dulari Morang

Local Election

Local Election 2074

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Local Election 2079

Sundarharaicha Municipality is in Morang district of Pradesh 1. There are 71,756 eligible voters for the Nepal local elections 2022, according to the Election Commission. There are 12 wards in the metropolitan city with the population of 121,305. * Total Population : 121,305 * Number of Wards : 12 * Election Center : 25 * Number of Male Eligible Voters : 34,726 * Number of Female Eligible Voters : 37,029 * Number of Other Eligible Voters : 1 * Total Eligible Voters : 71,756

Notable people

* Dilip Kumar Rai *

Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal is a Nepalese Politician and serving as the Member of House Of Representatives (Nepal) elected from Morang constituency-3, Province No. 1. He is the member and lawmaker of the Presidium of Nepal Communist Party. He is former ...

*Ganendra Subedi *

Yama Buddha Yama (Devanagari: यम) or Yamarāja (यमराज), is a deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld who predominantly features in Hindu and Buddhist religion, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities ...

*Yukesh Chaudhary
Dr Surya B. Parajuli
*Uddab Subedi

References

External links

{{Province No. 1 topics Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Municipalities in Province No. 1 Municipalities in Morang District