Dasharathchand is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

and the district headquarter of

Baitadi District Baitadi District ( ), historical name “Bairath” (बैराथ), a part of Sudurpashchim Province, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal. It is a Hill district. Baitadi, with Dasharathchand as its headquarters, covers an area of and has ...

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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 ...

. It is a

hill station A hill station is a touristic town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The English term was originally used mostly in Western imperialism in Asia, colonial Asia, but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by ...

above

Mahakali River The Sharda River is the downstream of Kāli River (or Mahakali River) that originates in the northern Uttarakhand state of India in the Great Himalayas on the eastern slopes of Nanda Devi massif, at an elevation of in the Pithoragarh distr ...

close to the Indian border. At the time of 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 34,575 people living in 7,257 individual households.

Background

Dasharatchand municipality was established in 1997 at the time, when the government of Nepal established a total of 22 Municipalities. Six VDCs were merged while establishing this municipality. Those VDCs were: Dashrathchanda, Khalanga,

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, Thalegada, Jogannath and Barakot. According to the

its total population was 17,427 and total area was . It was divided into 13 wards. In March 2017, the

Government of Nepal The Government of Nepal () is the central executive authority of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The government is led by the Prime Minister of Nepal, prime minister (K. P. Sharma Oli, K.P. Oli since 15 July 2024) who selects all the o ...

restructured all the local level bodies of Nepal into 753 new local level structures. The previous Gurukhola, Dehimandau, Durga Bhabani, portion of Durgasthan, Gwallek and

Nagarjun Vaidyanath Mishra (11 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as ''Janakav ...

VDCs merged to the former Dashrathchanda Municipality and rearranged it into 11 wards. Now total population of the Dashrathchanda Municipality is 34,575 individuals and total area is .

Media

To promote local culture, Dasharathchanda has two FM radio stations Saugat F.M. (103.6 MHz) and Radio Sunsher (106.6 MHz). There is also Radio Nwedeu, 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.

Transportation

Mahakali Highway links Dasharathchand to

Dhangadhi Dhangadhi () is a sub-metropolitan city and the district headquarters of Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It shares a border with India in the south, Godawari and Gauriganga Municipality in the North, Kailari Rural Munici ...

in the South and

Api Municipality Mahakali () is a List of cities in Nepal, municipality located in Darchula District of Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 named "Api Municipality" merging the former Village development committee (Ne ...

in the North.

Climate

References

External links

*https://dasharathchandmun.gov.np/en Populated places in Baitadi District Municipalities in Baitadi District Nepal municipalities established in 1997 {{Baitadi-geo-stub