Gaushala, Nepal

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Gaushala
गौशाला नगरपालिका
Municipality
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Gaushala
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 26°55′N85°49′E / 26.92°N 85.81°E / 26.92; 85.81 Coordinates: 26°55′N85°49′E / 26.92°N 85.81°E / 26.92; 85.81
CountryFlag of Nepal.svg    Nepal
Zone Janakpur Zone
District Mahottari District
Population (1991)
 • Total 10,283
Time zone NST (UTC+5:45)

Gaushala is a Municipality in Mahottari District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging existing Nigauli, Ramnagar, Gaushala VDCs. [1] [2] At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 10,283 people living in 1916 individual households. [3]

Municipality An administrative division having corporate status and usually some powers of self-government or jurisdiction

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. It is to be distinguished (usually) from the county, which may encompass rural territory or numerous small communities such as towns, villages and hamlets.

Mahottari District District in Province No. 2, Nepal

Mahottari District, a part of Province No. 2, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Jaleshwar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,002 km² and had a population of 553,481 in 2001 and 627,580 in 2011. Its headquarters is located in Jaleshwar, a neighbouring town of the historical city of Janakpur. The name Jaleshwar means the 'God in Water'. One can find a famous temple of Lord Shiva in Water there. Jaleshwar lies at a few kilometres distance from the Nepal-India border and has a majority Maithili population. In janakpur zone there are two districts ; mahottari and dhanusha and both are in a distance of 1 hour.

Janakpur Zone Zone in Central Development Region, Nepal

Janakpur is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal, reaching from the Indian border in the south to the Tibetan border in the north and Sagarmatha Zone in the east and Bagmati and Naryani Zones in the west.

To Promote local culture Gaushala has one FM radio stations Radio Gaushala- 93.6 MHz Which is a Community radio Station.

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. ↑ "72 new municipalities announced". My Republica.com. Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  2. ↑ "Government announces 72 new municipalities". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  3. ↑ "Nepal Census 2001", Nepal's Village Development Committees, Digital Himalaya, archived from the original on 12 October 2008, retrieved 15 November 2009.


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