Hardauna is a village in the sub-metropolitan municipality of Maharajganj[1] in the Kapilvastu District of the Lumbini Province.[2] The village is in a terai region in southern Nepal.[3] It is on the Banganga, a river which arises on the southern slopes of the Sivalik Hills and flows across the Terai, reaching into Uttar Pradesh state in India.[4][5]

Hardauna
हर्दौना
Village
Map
Nepal🇳🇵   Nepal
ZoneLumbini Zone
DistrictKapilvastu District
Government
 • TypeLocal Government
 • ChairpersonShailendra Kumar Chaudhary[citation needed]
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
4,841
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)
Area code40655

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census Hardauna had a population of 3,393 people living in 576 individual households.[6] In 2011, the census of the village counted a total population of 4,841 individuals (2,324 female and 2,517 male), residing in 676 separate household.[7]

Formerly, Hardauna was a village development committee (VDC), which were local-level administrative units. In 2017, the government of Nepal restructured local government in line with the new 2015 constitution and VDCs were discontinued.[8]

History

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  1. ^ Government of Nepal. "स्थानीय तहको वेवसाईटको विवरण" [Detail map of local level GIS]. sthaniya.gov.np (in Nepali). Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  2. ^ Udhyami, Bikas. "New local level map of Nepal". nepalindata.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  3. ^ Guneratne, Arjun (2018). Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 54–61. ISBN 9780801439124.
  4. ^ National Planning Commission; Central Bureau of Statistics. "Major Rivers" (in Nepali). Government of Nepal. Hydrology Network of Nepal
  5. ^ Dhungel, Dwarika Nath; Pun, Santa Bahadur; Adhikari, Basistha Raj (2009). "Inundation at the Southern Border". In Dhungel, Dwarika Nath; Pun, Santa Bahadur (eds.). The Nepal–India Water Relationship: Challenges. Springer. pp. 269–293. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8403-4_10. ISBN 978-1-4020-8403-4.
  6. ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  7. ^ Central Bureau of Statistics; National Planning Commission (November 2012). "National Population and Housing Census 2011". Census Nepal 2011. Kathmandu, Nepal: (censusnepal.cbs.gov.np) Government of Nepal. p. 79. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  8. ^ "New local level structure comes into effect from today". www.thehimalayantimes.com. The Himalayan Times. 10 March 2017.

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