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Chandrapur Municipality (), locally known as ''Chandranigahapur or Chapur,'' is a municipality in
Rautahat District Rautahat District (), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the List of districts of Nepal, seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district headquarter is Gaur, Nepal, Gaur, including municipalities like Katahariya, Garuda, Nepal, Garuda, Chandrapur ...
of
Madhesh Province Madhesh Province () is a Provinces of Nepal, province of Nepal in the Terai region with an area of covering about 6.5% of the country's total area. It has a population of 6,126,288 as per the 2021 Nepal census, making it Nepal's most densely po ...
of
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. Chandrapur municipality lies on the west side of
Bagmati River The Bagmati River flows through the Kathmandu valley of Nepal, separating the cities of Kathmandu and Patan, before flowing through Madesh Province of southern Nepal and joining the Kamla River in the Indian state of Bihar. It is considered ...
along Chure range, bordering Gujara municipality in the west, Brindawan municipality in south,
Bakaiya Rural Municipality Bakaiya is a Rural municipality located within the Makwanpur District of the Bagmati Province of Nepal. The municipality spans of area, with a total population of 39,620 according to the 2011 Nepal census. On March 10, 2017, the Government of N ...
& Bagmati Rural Municipality, Makwanpur of
Makwanpur District Makwanpur District (; ), in Bagmati Province, earlier a part of Narayani Zone, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The city of Hetauda serves as the district headquarters and also as the provincial headquarters. The district covers a ...
of Bagmati Province in the north and Bagmati municipality of Sarlahi district in the east. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging Chandranigahapur, Judibela,
Paurai Paurai is a town and market center in Chandrapur Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee was merged to form the municipality o ...
,
Santpur Santpur is a town and market center in Chandrapur Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged to form the municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 19 ...
Matioun, and Dumariya Matioun VDCs. According to the
2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...
, it had a population of 72,085 people living in 13,445 individual households.


History

The town was named after the late Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher, who used to come here for hunting. People started to live here after the naming of this place.


Development activities

In remembrance of Girija Prasad Koirala the then Primeminister and president of Nepali congress people and Youth circle established a Picnic spot for the villagers of the Place. Cha.pur Hospital, Janata samudayik Hospital, Chandranigahapur Hospital, Road Development, etc. have also commenced. Banks in Chandrapur include Siddhartha Bank Limited, Nepal SBI, Nepal Bank, NCC Bank, Everest Bank, Jyoti bikash Bank, Laxmi Development Bank, Prabhu Bank, Machhapuchhre Bank. There is also a picnic spot as well tourist place called "sahid smiriti park" near the bank of Chandi River. At the centre of the park is a list of names of people in stone script, who contributed their life during the 10 years of revolution (1951/52-1962/63). It is the major picnic spot for the locals.


Demographics

Chandrapur municipality had a population of 72,085, 50.2% female and 49.8% male.


Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of Nepal, 36.3% of the population spoke Nepali, 15.9%
Bajjika Bajjika is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in parts of Bihar, India and in Nepal. It is also classified as a dialect of Maithili language and is known as Western Maithili. Territory and speakers Bajjika language is spoken in the north-w ...
, 12.6% Tamang, 11.7% Tharu, 9.6%
Bhojpuri Bhojpuri may refer to: * Bhojpuri language, an Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal * Bhojpuri grammar, grammatical rules of the language * Bhojpuri nouns, nouns of the language * Bhojpuri people, people who speak the language * Bhojpuri region ...
, 3.9% Maithili, 2.3% Magar, 2% Majhi, 1.4%
Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
and 4.3% other smaller languages as their first language.


Caste and ethnic groups

The largest ethnicity in Chandrapur is Tharu, who make 15.1% of the population followed by Hill Brahmin with 13.2%, Tamang 13.1%,
Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...
9.4%, Magar 5%, Danuwar 3.1%,
Chamar Chamar (or Jatav) is a community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's Reservation in India, system of affirmative action that originated from the group of trade persons who were involved in leather tanning and shoemaking. They a ...
3%,
Teli Teli is a caste traditionally occupied in the oil pressing and trade in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Members may be either Hindu or Muslim; Muslim Teli are called Roshandaar or Teli Malik. India's Prime minister Narendra Modi is from Teli c ...
3%, Majhi 2.8% and various other ethnicities and caste make up around 32.5% of the total population.


Religion

At the time of the census 81% followed
Hinduism Hinduism () is an Hypernymy and hyponymy, umbrella term for a range of Indian religions, Indian List of religions and spiritual traditions#Indian religions, religious and spiritual traditions (Sampradaya, ''sampradaya''s) that are unified ...
, 13.3%
Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
2.7%
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
, 1.5%
Prakriti Prakriti ( ) is "the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance". It is a key concept in Hinduism, formulated by the ''Samkhya'' school, where it does not refer merely to matter or nature, but includes all cog ...
, 1%
Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose ...
and 0.5% other religions.


Literacy

According to the 2011 census 60% of the population could read and write whereas 3% of the population could read only. Meanwhile 37.4% could neither read nor write.


Sports

In this town, many sports such as volleyball, football, and cricket are played. The Rautahat Women’s Football Team is renowned as the best women's team in Nepal and is known as the powerhouse of women's football in the country. Today, the first women’s football academy in Nepal is located in Chandrapur. Additionally, martial arts such as karate, wrestling, and taekwondo are also practiced here.


Media

Chandrapur has two FM radio stations. * Radio Nunthar F.M. - 102.6 MHz which is a
community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial broadcasting, commercial and public broadcasting. Community broadcasting, Community stations serve geographic communities and communities o ...
Station. * Gunjan fm -105.3 MHz is another FM station in Chandranigahpur.


Developing places

Chandaranighapur also Chandrapur itself is a developing town. Many of the places are considered to be developed in local context; whereas, some are considered to be ongoing developing places. Some of them are Judibela, Basantapur, Santapur, Nayabasti, Dumariya, Balchanpur, Banbahuary, etc.


References

Populated places in Rautahat District Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Municipalities in Madhesh Province {{Rautahat-geo-stub