Patan Municipality

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Patan Municipality

पाटन नगरपालिका
Municipality
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Patan Municipality
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 29°28′36″N80°33′57″E / 29.47667°N 80.56583°E / 29.47667; 80.56583 Coordinates: 29°28′36″N80°33′57″E / 29.47667°N 80.56583°E / 29.47667; 80.56583
Country Nepal
Zone Mahakali Zone
District Baitadi District
Area
 • Total119.6 km2 (46.2 sq mi)
Population
 • Total19,911
 • Density170/km2 (430/sq mi)
 • Religions
 Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist
Time zone UTC+5:45 (NST)
Website www.patanmun.gov.np/en

Patan is a municipality in Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of Far-western Nepal. The new municipality was formed by merging six existing villages Sakar, Silanga, Bhumeswor Gujar Basantapur and Patan on 2 December 2014. [1] [2] The office of the municipality is that of the former Patan village development committee.

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.

Baitadi District District in Province No. 7, Nepal

Baitadi District, historical name “Bairath” (बैराथ), a part of Province No. 7, is one of the seventy-Seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Dasharathchand as its headquarters, covers an area of 1,519 km2 and has a population of 250,898 according to the census (2011). The Baitadi district entails 56 village development councils (VDCs) and two municipality. Baitadi falls into the farthest western regional district of Nepal touching Jhulaghat, India, Nepal's neighboring country, to its border.

Mahakali Zone Zone in Nepal

Mahakali is one of the fourteen zones located in the Far-Western Development Region of Nepal, covering an area of 6,205 km2 in the most western part of the country. It stretches along Nepal's far western border with India, marked by the Kali River or Mahakali River, which originates from Limpiyadhura, a disputed location for whether or not the Tri-country border point of Nepal and India with China.

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Population

Patan municipality is formed by merging Sakar, Silanga, Bhumeswor Gujar Basantapur and Patan; it has a total population of 19,911 according to 2011 Nepal census. [3]

Sakar, Nepal Village development committee in Mahakali Zone, Nepal

Sakar is a village development committee in Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,996 and had 484 houses in the village. Sakar in Nepali means "dream come true".

Silanga Village development committee in Mahakali Zone, Nepal

Silanga is a village development committee in Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,260 and had 400 houses in the village.

Gujar, Nepal Village development committee in Mahakali Zone, Nepal

Gujar is a village development committee in Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,567 and had 475 houses in the town.

Introduction

Patan is beautiful place overall of the district. This place is surrounded by the beautiful hills including pine forests. At the bottom of this village there is Surnaya river is streaming which is main river of this area. This place is located in between Dadeldhura And Baitadi Khalanga. In this municipality many District level governmental offices are situated like Children or Woman development office, District Animal care office, District irrigation office, District landslide rescue office, District Family planning association of Nepal and many other offices. In this area it has Hydro power about of 250 Kilowatt power which provides Electricity within its area. Climate is medium (nor very hot neither very cool) it belongs to mid hill region. Mainly in this area Brahmin, Chhetri and Thakuri peoples are living. Mainly people of this area depends on Agriculture but other occupation is also income source.

Dadeldhura City in Mahakali Zone, Nepal

Dadeldhura is a far -western district of Nepal. It lies in the Mahakali Zone of far-western Nepal. The region has a desert-mountainous landscape that contains many local religious temples like ugratara temple. The district is frequently visited by tourists to Nepal, but contains local routes to Mt. Kailaish in [(Tibet)], Rara lake in Humla district and the last remaining remnants of the Far Western Malla Kingdom. Nagi Malla was the last royal to live here before Nepalese unification.

Agriculture Cultivation of plants and animals to provide useful products

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture into the twenty-first.

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References

  1. ↑ "Govt announces 61 municipalities". The Kathmandu Post. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Govt creates 61 new municipalities". República. 3 Dec 2014. Retrieved 2 Dec 2014.
  3. ↑ "2011 Nepal census (Ward Level)" (PDF). Central Bureau of Statistics. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-31. Retrieved November 2012.Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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