Bahundangi

Bahundangi
—  Village development committee  —
Map of the village development committees in Jhapa District
Country	Nepal
Zone	Mechi Zone
District	Jhapa District
Population (2001)
• Total	22,897
Time zone	Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)

Bahundangi is a village development committee in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 21,395 people living in 3908 individual households.

Bahundangi is a village development committee located at the easternmost part of jhapa district. It is bordered with India towards east and south and Illam district and mechi municipality towards north and west respectively. the total population is 22897 according to 2001 census. The majority of the people are farmers, mostly cultivating rice, tea, arecanut, ginger, etc. Because of its open border most people have free access to India where they go for shopping and medication to the adjoining Indian market naxalbari. To and fro illegal trade between the two areas is also present mostly in arecanut, ginger, paddy and timber. The village is remote with gravel connection to Kankarbhitta which is almost 9 kilometres from the bahundangi bazaar.

The main problem of the village is wild elephants which move to and fro between Nepal and India and destroy the crops and houses too. More than 20 people have been killed due to these elephants till now.

There is the majority of Brahman in Bahundangi. The term bahundangi is the combination of Bahun (Brahman, the most celeb cast of Nepal), and Dangi (also called Birta, Place). There are so many sub-castes in Bahundangi, such as Neupaney, Niraula, Budhathoki, Khanal, Poudel, Khadka, Basnet, Karki, etc.