Rautahat District


Rautahat District, a part of Province No. 2, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district headquarter is Gaur, including municipalities like Garuda, Chandrapur, Paroha, covers an area of 1,126 km² and had a population of 545,132 in 2001 and 686,722 in 2011. This district has a total of 2 VDCs and 16 municipalities. Among other districts, Rautahat has the largest percent of Muslims in Nepal, about 19.465%.The most muslim densely Village Bairiya is an example for secularism in Nepal.Sri Ram Sugar Mill is the only sugar mill located in Garuda municipality.The well known shiva temple located in Shivnagar, which run by giri family.The historical temple of Goddess Durga is in Matsarri.Late Shri Gulab Narayan Jha, the first person to represent madhesis in politics, was permanent resident of this Village.
Nunthar is a famous place for picnic and there is a temple of lord shiva which is located in pauria Bagmati, Rautahat.

Geography and Climate

The Manusmara River flows through the district, and feeds a canal for irrigating 3200 hectares of land.

Hotels

1.Hotel Siya Palace
2.Rainbow Hotel
3.Simon Hotel
4.Royal Indu Hotel
5. Hotel Alpine
6. Aarohi Hotel
7. Hotel Aman
8. R.R. Guest House
9. Hotel Mangalam
10. Hotel A.N. Plaza

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Rautahat District had a population of 686,722. Of these, 60.3% spoke Bajjika, 19.3% Urdu, 6.1% Nepali, 4.3% Bhojpuri, 3.3% Tharu, 3.0% Maithili and 1.7% Tamang as their first language.
30.4% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 16.8% Nepali, 10.8% Bhojpuri and 3.6% Bajjika as their second language.

Administration

The district consists of eighteen municipalities, out of which sixteen are urban municipalities and two are rural municipalities. These are as follows:

Shree Juddha Campus

The origin of this campus goes back to its former "Shree Juddha Higher Secondary School" and further "Shree Juddha Secondary School", the third-oldest school in Nepal inaugurated by Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana during Rana dynasty. The school got its name from his name. The institution has about 1500 students.
Shree Juddha Campus offers bachelor courses like Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, etc. while its former entities "Shree Juddha Higher Secondary School" offers 10+2 courses of National Examinations Board and "Shree Juddha Secondary School" offers up to 10th class of School Leaving Certificate.
It runs a separate school for blind students.

Gauri Shankar Yadav Campus

It offers bachelor courses like B.Ed. and 10+2 courses of National Examinations Board.

Madrasa Mus-ab bin Umair Bairiya

It offers courses like and primary education for both boys and girls.
Location: Bairiya vdc