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The Kathmandu Valley is the most developed and the largest urban agglomeration in Nepal with a population of about 5 million people. [3] The urban agglomeration of Kathmandu Valley includes the cities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Changunarayan, Budhanilkantha, Tarakeshwar, Gokarneshwar, Suryabinayak, Tokha, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi, and ...
Kathmandu District (Nepali: काठमाडौं जिल्ला Listen ⓘ; Nepal Bhasa: ये: जिल्ला) is a district located in Kathmandu Valley, Bagmati Province of Nepal. It is one of the 77 districts of Nepal , covers an area of 413.69 km 2 (159.73 sq mi), and is the most densely populated district of Nepal with ...
Along with other major criteria as mentioned in Local Governance Act 2017 of Nepal, the number of population to be considered as the municipality: the minimum population in mountainous district should be 10,000 while hilly districts, inner terai districts, terai districts, and Kathmandu valley should include forty thousand, fifty thousand, seventy thousand and one hundred thousand respectively.
As defined by Part 17 of the Constitution of Nepal, the municipalities are governed by a Municipal Executive headed by a mayor.The Municipal Executive consists of the deputy mayor, ward chairpersons elected from each ward in the municipality, and five women members elected by the Municipal Assembly among themselves and three members from the Dalit or other minority communities. [3]
The Mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government in Nepal. There are in total 293 mayors in Nepal (6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, and 276 municipalities). [1] [2] Mayors are very powerful in the municipal government. [3] They are the head of the local government of Nepal .
Municipalities of Nepal — City-urban municipalities and Gaunpalika−rural municipalities, the 3rd-level administrative subdivisions for Nepalese local government For more information, see List of cities in Nepal and List of gaupalikas of Nepal .
Along with other major criteria as mentioned in Local Governance Act 2017 of Nepal, the number of population to be considered as the municipality: the minimum population in mounta
A ward (Nepali: वडा) is the smallest unit of local governments in Nepal.The local level body (gaunpalika and municipality) which is divided into 753 units, are further divided into 6,743 wards.