Chainpur, Seti

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Chainpur
चैनपुर
Municipality
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Chainpur
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 29°33′N81°12′E / 29.550°N 81.200°E / 29.550; 81.200 Coordinates: 29°33′N81°12′E / 29.550°N 81.200°E / 29.550; 81.200
CountryFlag of Nepal.svg    Nepal
Zone Seti Zone
District Bajhang District
Population (1991)
 • Total 4,143
 • Religions Hindu
Time zone Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)
Postal code 10500
Area code(s) 092

Chainpur is an ancient town in Jaya Prithvi Municipality and headquarters of Bajhang District in the Seti Zone of north-western Nepal. The formerly Village Development Committee was merged to form new municipality from 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,143 and had 759 houses in the village. [1] It has a grass runway in town with limited flights. From 1990-2002 the Peace Corps operated in Chainpur.

Town settlement that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city

A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages but smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish them vary considerably between different parts of the world.

Jaya Prithvi Municipality Municipality in Seti Zone, Nepal

Jayaprithvi is a municipality and the district headquarter of Bajhang District in Province No. 7 of Nepal that was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the two former Village development committees Rithapata, Chainpur, Hemantabada, Luyanta and Subeda. It lies on the bank of Seti River. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 22,191 people living in 4,015 individual households.

Bajhang District District in Province No. 7, Nepal

Bajhang District (Nepali: बझाङ जिल्ला Listen , a part of Province No. 7, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Chainpur, that is part of Jaya Prithvi Municipality, as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,422 km² and has a population of 195,159. The headquarter Chainpur is situated at the bank of Seti River and Bauli Gaad. Bitthad Bazar is bordered with Baitadi District which is the place of Bitthad Kalika and Kedar. This place was famous for fresh milk and yogurt.

Contents

Pop culture

Sydney Wignall's 'Prisoner in Red Tibet' [2] and 'Spy on the Roof of the World': [3] the story starts and finishes in Chainpur.

Media

To Promote local culture Chainpur has two Community radio Station. one is Seti Samudayik FM - 93.6 MHz and Bajhang FM.

Community radio radio service serving a specific community

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.

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References

  1. ↑ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
  2. ↑ Wignall, Sydney. "Prisoner In Red Tibet". London: Hutchinson, 1957
  3. ↑ Wignall, Sydney. "Spy On The Roof Of The World". Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996. ISBN   0-86241-580-2
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