Barahathwa Municipality


Barahathwa is a municipality of the Sarlahi District in the Janakpur Zone of central Nepal. The municipality was established on 19 September 2015 by merging the existing Barahathwa, Murtiya, Hajariya, sundarpur chuhadwa Village [development committee (Nepal)|village development committee] su.chu. and Laukat village development committees. The center of the municipality is established in the former VDC Office of Barahathwa Bazaar. After merging the four VDCs' populations, it had a total population of 50,424 according to 2011 [Nepal census]. The population is excepted to reached 100,000 in this decade.

Municipality

The Nepali government announced in 2015 the creation of 26 new municipalities. With this announcement Barahathawa was upgraded to a municipality of Nepal; previously it was merely a proposed municipality. The adjoining villages, or VDCs, of Barahathawa, Shreepur, Murtiya, Hajariya, Janakinagar, Laukat and Sundarpur chuhadwa were merged with Barahathawa to upgrade it to the status of a municipality.