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.
Okhaldhunga District is one of 14 districts of Kirat of eastern Nepal. The district, with Okhaldhunga as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,074.5 km² and had a population of 156,702 in 2001 and 147,984 in 2011.
It is the second largest VDC of Okhaldhunga, and is located at the border of Ramechhap District.
Ramechhap District, a part of Province No. 3, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, known as Kirat Ramechhap, with Manthali as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,546 km² and has a population (2011) of 202,646 and a density of 137.4 per km2.
The village is home to Pokali waterfall (130 metres (430ft) in height), and nine wards with a different culture in every ward.
In Pokali a school was established at 2002Bs by Ambika PD Ghimire: the school's name is Shree Leti Ma.vi.(ma.vi.being the Nepali abbreviation for secondary school) Leti Pokali.
A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools can provide both lower secondary education and upper secondary education, but these can also be provided in separate schools, as in the American middle and high school system.
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