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Khajura Bajaar
खजुरा बजार नगरपालिका
Motto: 
सम्बृद्द खजुरा हाम्रो चाहना
Country   Nepal
ZoneBheri Zone
DistrictBanke District
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)
Area code081-560XXX
Websitehttp://www.khajurabajaar.com/

Khajura Bajaar is a municipality in Banke District in the Bheri Zone in mid-western Nepal.[1] The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing two Village Development Committees i.e. Sitapur and Bageshwori. The town is in Nepalganj-Gulariya highway and one of the fastest developing places in Nepal. A neighboring city Nepalgunj is on east(8 km), and further 6 km is the Indian border. In fact it is a growing city in the western region of Nepal.

It is accessible by air (Nepalgunj Airport) and by road (559 km west of Kathmandu).

Khajura Bajaar Municipality

Khajura Bajaar is third municipality in the Banke District, with the first being Nepalgunj and second being Kohalpur.

As a municipality, Khajura Bajaar will assume greater local government autonomy and greater financial resources as part of the central governments' effort to promote decentralized power.

The municipality status of Kohalpur has been repeatedly stalled due to the failure to ratify the national constitution. A fourth deadline to ratify the constitution was missed on 27 May 2012.[2]

Administrative Structure

Khajura Bajaar is within the Banke District. The DDC (District Development Committee) of the Banke District was recently assumed by a Local Development Officer appointed by the government. Khajura Bajaar has been declared as a municipality, but this has not been officiated in the absence of a ratified national constitution. Currently, it remains as a Village Development Committee (VDC), with 9 wards, each with a Ward Citizen Forum (WCF) serving as a community-level authority.

Geography

Khajura Bajaar is located in the Banke District in the Mid-West Region of Nepal (Therai region), with a total area of 2816.6 hectares. The climate is subtropical and the temperature varies between a maximum of 46 °C and minimum of -2 °C.

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Demography

Culture and ethnicities

Religion

Economy

The main activity of the working population of Kohalpur is involved in agriculture and livestock (52.88%); the rest of the population earn their life in day labour (21.90%), business (11.27%), government and non- government organization work (13.86%) and small industry (0.09%).

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References

  1. ^ Gaviria, G., Lee, J., Ospina, P., Soloman, S. and Suharyanto I. (2012). 'Kohalpur: strategic transition from VDC to municipality and potentials for sustainable growth along a strategic highway junction', in Urban Management 2012 Applied Research Project: Four Case Studies in Nepal. Berlin: Technische Universitat Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Gurubacharya, Binaj. "Nepal Fails to Agree on Constitution". AP. Archived from the original on May 29, 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)