Barju Rural Municipality

Barju (बर्जु गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality (gaunpalika) out of six rural municipality located in Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. There are a total of 12 municipalities in Sunsari in which 6 are urban and 6 are rural.

According to Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Barju has an area of 69.43 km2 and the total population of the municipality is 36,533 as of Census of Nepal 2021.

Ramganj Belgachhiya, Amaduwa, Amahibelaha and Chimdi which previously were all separate Village development committee merged to form this new local level body. Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality).

The rural municipality is divided into total 6 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in Amahibelaha.