Gamhariya, Nepal

Gamhariya
गम्हरिया
Gamhariya
Gamhariya is located in Nepal
Gamhariya
Gamhariya
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 26°56′N 85°23′E / 26.93°N 85.38°E / 26.93; 85.38
Country   Nepal
ZoneNarayani Zone
DistrictRautahat District
Government
 • ChairmanPhool Babu
Population
 (1991)
 • Total
3,851
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)
Postal code
44513
Area code055

Gamhariya was a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.

Just before 2017 Nepalese local elections, it was merged with other 5 Village development committees samanpur, Sangrampur, Bahuwa Madanpur, Dharampur and Bariyarpur to form Gadhimai Municipality.[1]

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3851 people living in 729 individual households.[2]

After Panchayat Kaal, the official name of this village development committee became "Gamhariya" but still not amended in some statistics data and refers it as Gamhariya Parsa.

The village development committee has 9 wards. Half of Ward 1 comprises in Parsa village, rest of ward 1 and wards 2,3,4 and 5 in Gamhariya village and remaining wards 6,7,8 and 9 in Laxmipur village as sub locality.

In 2012, the estimated population of this VDC is around 5000.

  1. ^ Gadhimai Municipality, "Merging of VDCs", 2017
  2. ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008.