Darbesha is a village development committee and the abode of ''Drabeshiyans'' (native inhabitants) in Morang District in

Koshi Province Koshi Province () is an autonomous Provinces of Nepal, province of Nepal adopted by the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. It covers an area of , about 17.5% of the country's total area. With the industrial city of Biratnagar as its cap ...

of south-eastern

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 has been merged with Rangeli and known as part of the Rangeli Municipality since 2073 B.S. 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 14,565 people living in 2709 individual households. It was supposed to be only VDC in Nepal where signal of mobile and wireless service is not available. Although

Ncell Ncell () is a mobile service provider from Nepal. It is Nepal's largest company in terms of revenue market share and second largest telecommunications company, after Nepal Telecom in terms of subscriber base. The company was founded in 2004 w ...

and NTC have built low quality smaller towers on neighbouring

Rangeli Rangeli is a Municipality and rural market town in Morang District in the Koshi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. This municipality was formed merging existing four villages i.e.Amgachhi, Babiabirta, Darbesa and Rangeli itself since May 2014. At the t ...

and

Kanepokhari Kanepokhari Rural Municipality () is a ''Gaunpalika'' (rural municipality) located in the center of Morang District, Koshi Province, Nepal. Location The Bayarban, Keroun and Hoklabari Village development committees were consolidated to form th ...

routes, no signal was felt on device on this VDC. Ranjani Chowk in Darbesha only received signal which was extremely low. But it does receive signal of Ncell with the internet capacity of 2G now. NTC signals cannot be received yet, however. Cable TV and electricity has reached there. Recent Survey estimates that if huge tower would be installed in Darbesha-1, it would be able to serve good quality of signal to smartphone and mobile users in whole Darbesha including neighbouring VDCs.

Population

Major languages in this VDC includes Nepali and Maithili. This VDC is thickly populated with major Nepalese ethnic groups such as Rajbanshi, Tajpuriya, Poudar Brahmins,

Maithil Maithils (Devanagari: मैथिल), also known as Maithili people, are an Indo-Aryan cultural and ethno-linguistic group from the Indian subcontinent, who speak the Maithili language as their native language. They inhabit the Mithila regio ...

(indigenous Madhesi), Hill

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s and

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 ...

References

Village development committees in Morang District Rangeli Municipality {{Morang-geo-stub