| Parsa Pateli पर्सा पटेली | |
|---|---|
| Village development committee | |
  Parsa Pateli Location in Nepal | |
| Coordinates: 26°37′N85°49′E / 26.62°N 85.82°E Coordinates: 26°37′N85°49′E / 26.62°N 85.82°E | |
| Country |  |
| Zone | Janakpur Zone |
| District | Mahottari District |
| Population (1991) | |
| • Total | 2,958 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
Parsa Pateli is a village development committee in Mahottari District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2958 people living in 515 individual households. [1]
A Village Development Committee (VDC) in Nepal was the lower administrative part of its Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development. Each district had several VDCs, similar to municipalities but with greater public-government interaction and administration. There were 3,157 village development committees in Nepal. Each VDC was further divided into several wards depending on the population of the district; the average being nine wards.
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 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.
Parsa-Pataili VDC consists of four separate villages: Parsa, Pataili, Chauria, and Bishnupur. Parsa, Pataili, and Bishnupur have two wards each while Chauria has three wards. The villages bishnupur has population of 1200. Many young peoples from Bishnupur works in Middle east countries as well as in Malaysia. A few families have been migrated to the United States of America for study/Job. Parsa-pataili is also the birthplace of two member of parliament in Nepalese parliament.
Bishnupur is one of the four villages under the Parsa Pateli village development committee of Mahottari district in the Janakpur Zone of southern Nepal. Bishnupur is located at 2.5 miles southeast of Jaleshwor, the district headquarters. Bishnupur is surrounded by the Indian border in the south, Chauria village in the southeast, Pataili in the northeast, Suga in the north, and Masurpatti village in the west. The towns of Matihani (Nepal) and Madhwapur (India) are 1.5 miles from Bishnupur.
