Rautahat District


Rautahat District, a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district headquarter is Gaur, including municipalities like Katahariya, Garuda, Chandrapur, Paroha, covers an area of 1,126 km2 and had a population of 545,132 in 2001 and 686,722 in 2011. Rautahat is hindu district.This district has a total of 2 VDCs and 16 municipalities. Among other districts, Rautahat has the largest percent of Muslims in Nepal, about 22.4%. The most densely populated village in Rautahat district, Rajpur pharhadwa, is primarily Muslim, but a majority of people in the district are Hindu. Sri Ram Sugar Mill is the only sugar mill located in Garuda municipality. The well known shiva temple located in Shivnagar, which is looked after by Sah and Jha family. The historical temple of Goddess Durga is in Matsari.Every year, the temple welcomes millions of devotees from different parts of Nepal and India as well on the occasion of Navaratri. Late Shri Gulab Narayan Jha, the first person to represent Madhesis in politics, was permanent resident of this village. There is a place called Najarpur in Chandrapur where whole village is vegetarian. They are not even allowed to buy or sell any alcoholic beverages and buying and selling of tobacco products is also prohibited.
There is a place called Katahariya which lies in Katahariya Municipality itself. It is famous for katiya meat. Katiya is an earthen pot in which mainly goat meat is cooked with the help of charcoal.
Nunthar is a famous place for picnic and there is a temple of lord shiva which is located in Paurai Bagmati, Rautahat.
Rautahat district is rich in natural resources. There are varieties of trees and varieties of medicinal herbs in the forest of Rautahat. There are dense forest with varieties of wild animals in the forest of Rautahat, including cheetahs, tigers, elephants, varieties of snakes, etc. There are also varieties of birds in the forests of Rautahat, including doves, hornbills, parrots, pigeons, cuckoos, sparrows, crows, and many more.
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Geography and Climate

The Manusmara River flows through the district, and feeds a canal for irrigating 3200 hectares of land.

Demographics

At the time of the 2021 Nepal census, Rautahat District had a population of 813,573. 11.97% of the population is under 5 years of age. It has a literacy rate of 57.75% and a sex ratio of 992 females per 1000 males. 761,991 lived in municipalities.
Ethnicity/caste: Madheshi are the largest group, making up over 66% of the population. Muslims are the largest single community, making up over 22% of the population. There are small minorities of Khas and Hill Janjati as well as Tharus.
Religion: 75.8% were Hindu, 22.6% Muslim, 1.5% Buddhist and 0.2% others.
Bajjika is the largest language. Maithili is the second-largest language. Nepali is spoken by 11% of the population. Urdu and Tharu are spoken by a small minority.

Administration

The district consists of eighteen municipalities, out of which sixteen are urban municipalities and two are rural municipalities. These are as follows:

Former Village Development Committees (VDCs) and Municipalities

Education

Private Schools
Nepal Police School, Basbiti Jingadiya.
Prabhat Secondary English Boarding School, Gaur.
Terai Zone Academy Santapur, Chandrapur.
Bal Niketan Higher Secondary School, Chandrapur.
Moonlight Academy Boarding School,Chandrapur.
Pathibhara Secondary School, Chandrapur.
Mount Everest English School, Chandrapur.
Namuna English Boarding School, Chapur Bazaar.
Himalayan Public School,Sukdev Chowk.
New Bal Memorial Academy Boarding School,SimraBhawanipur.
Trishakti Academy English Boarding School Katahariya

Shree Juddha Campus

The origin of this campus goes back to its former "Shree Juddha Higher Secondary School" and further "Shree Juddha Secondary School", the third-oldest school in Nepal inaugurated by Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana during Rana dynasty. The school got its name from his name. The institution has about 1500 students.
Shree Juddha Campus offers bachelor courses like Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, etc. while its former entities "Shree Juddha Higher Secondary School" offers 10+2 courses of National Examinations Board and "Shree Juddha Secondary School" offers up to 10th class of School Leaving Certificate (Nepal).
It runs a separate school for blind students.

Gauri Shankar Yadav Campus

It offers bachelor courses like B.Ed. and 10+2 courses of National Examinations Board.

Notable people