Amarapuri is a town in
Gaidakot Municipality
Gaindakot (, ; sometimes spelled Gaidakot) is a municipality in Nawalpur District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It became a municipality in May 2014 by merging the existing Mukundapur, Amarapuri, and Gaindakot VDCs. It was again exp ...
in
Nawalparasi District
Nawalparasi District ( ne, नवलपरासी जिल्ला, ), part of which belongs to Gandaki Province and part to Lumbini Province, was one of the seventy-five List of districts of Nepal, districts of Nepal before being divided in ...
in the
Lumbini Zone
Lumbini ( ne, लुम्बिनी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. It is home to the Lumbini site, the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the historical B ...
of southern
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
. It became a municipality in May 2014 by merging the existing
Mukundapur
Mukundapur is a town in Gaidakot Municipality in eastern part of Nawalparasi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It became a municipality in May 2014 by merging the existing Mukundapur, Amarapuri, Gaidakot, Nawalparasi, VDCs. At th ...
, Amarapuri,
Gaidakot, Nawalparasi
Gaindakot (, ; sometimes spelled Gaidakot) is a municipality in Nawalpur District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It became a municipality in May 2014 by merging the existing Mukundapur, Amarapuri, and Gaindakot VDCs. It was again expa ...
,
VDCs. 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 5,451 living in 967
household
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s.
Amarapuri has three high schools, the Shree Laxmi Higher Secondary School, Amar Jyoti Higher Secondary School and Amar English Higher Secondary Boarding School.
Located around 160 km west of the capital city Kathmandu, Amarapuri is the small village bounded by Mukundapur VDC in the east, Rajahar VDC in the west and the Narayani River in the south and Ratanpur VDC in the north. This village is beautifully located on a hilly area above the plain that adjoins the Narayani River. It is situated in the lap of Mahabharata hill range
The main occupation of population is agriculture and with most families dependent upon remittance for the earning (as well as living). Amarapuri daily exports milk from two major dairies, Amarapuri Dhugdha and Amar Bahu Udhasya Sahakari Sastha.
School and colleges
1 Shree Pancha Jyoti lower secondary school.
2 Shree Laxmi higher secondary school.
3 Janamukhi Adharsa Bahumukhi campus.
4 Amar Jyoti secondary school.
5 Unique boarding school.
6 Amar English higher secondary boarding school.
7 Bijay Jyoti primary school.
8 Shree Bal Udaya Primary school
Banks and Financial Institution
1 NIC Asia Bank.
2 Citizens Bank.
3 Shangrila Development Bank.
4 Bank of Kathmandu.
References
Populated places in Nawalpur District
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