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Khartuwa is a small village in the Sitalpati V.D.C. Ward no.6 of
Sankhuwasabha District Sankhuwasabha District ( ne, सङ्खुवासभा जिल्ला ) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. The district's area is 3,480 km2 with a population of 159,203 in 2001 and 158,742 in 2011. ...
, located in one of the most remote part of eastern
Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
. It is situated approximately 12 km north from the headquarters
Khandbari Khandbari is the district headquarters of Sankhuwasabha District in Province No. 1 of north-eastern Nepal. The 2011 Nepal census counted 26,301 population. The area A road connects Khandbari directly south to Biratnagar and the Terai. Khandba ...
, where the people go for shopping and other daily needs. It resides calmly on the lap of mount
Makalu Makalu ( ne, मकालु हिमाल, Makālu himāl; zh, t=馬卡魯峰, p=Mǎkǎlǔ fēng) is the fifth highest mountain in the world at . It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas southeast of Mount Everest, in Nepal. One of th ...
(8462m), which is one of the highest peaks of the world. The village is rich in forest and water resources.


Community

The village is mainly occupied by the Lohorung community and has a population of about 500 people. The community living in Khartuwa are mostly dependent on agriculture. Most of young people are working abroad in foreign countries like Arab countries, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.


Public amenities

There is one primary school named Bal Balika Primary School, but there is no high school in the village, meaning the students have to travel to nearby high schools viz. Aangla School or Chandanpur School after they cross primary level (i.e. 5th grade). It does not have proper transportation facility. However, a gravel road is under construction. There is also a temple called ''Mahadevthaan'' and a natural stone sprout called ''Dhyaadhara '' from where the village people fetch water for drinking and washing purposes.


Daily life

The Lohorung people of this village spend most of their time doing household activities such as cooking meal, feeding domestic animals, fetching drinking water. Their daily mode of life is based on agriculture. They plant crops like paddy, wheat, millet etc. according to the seasonal calendar. The female member usually do the household chores and the male member do the outdoor works such as ploughing the rice fields, irrigating the fields.


References

* Hardman, Charlotte E. (2000), ''Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion among the Lohorung Rai'', Berg, Oxford, New York


External links


Location of Khartuwa Village
* https://web.archive.org/web/20130102061929/http://lohorung.org.np/ Populated places in Sankhuwasabha District {{Sankhuwasabha-geo-stub pl:Sitalpati (Sankhuwasabha)