Chandrapur Municipality

Chandrapur Municipality (other names Chandranigahapur, locally known as Chapur) is a Municipality in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone in Madhesh Province of southern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging Chandranigahapur, Judibela, Paurai, Santpur Matioun, and Dumariya Matioun VDCs.

At the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 72,085 people living in 13,445 individual households.

History
The town was named after the late Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher, who used to come here for hunting. People started to live here after the naming of this place.

Development activities
In remembrance of Girija Prasad Koirala. The head of Rautahat Branch's G.P Koirala Study Centre shailendra prasad Gupta does the construction of Dabari where Tourism Area has begun. Cha.pur Hospital, Janata samudayik Hospital, Chandranigahapur Hospital, Road Development, etc. have also commenced.

Banks in Chandrapur include Siddhartha Bank Limited, Nepal SBI, Nepal Bank, NCC Bank, Everest Bank, Jyoti bikash Bank, Laxmi Development Bank, Prabhu Bank, Machhapuchhre Bank.

There is also a picnic spot as well tourist place called "sahid smiriti park" near the bank of Chandi River. At the centre of the park is a list of names of people in stone script, who contributed their life during the 10 years of revolution (1951/52-1962/63). It is the major picnic spot for the locals.

Demographics
Chandrapur municipality had a population of 72,085, 50.2% female and 49.8% male.

Languages
At the time of the 2011 Census of Nepal, 36.3% of the population spoke Nepali, 15.9% Bajjika, 12.6% Tamang, 11.7% Tharu, 9.6% Bhojpuri, 3.9% Maithili, 2.3% Magar, 2% Majhi, 1.4% Urdu and 4.3% other smaller languages as their first language.

Caste and ethnic groups
The largest ethnicity in Chandrapur is Tharu, who make 15.1% of the population followed by Hill Brahmin with 13.2%, Tamang 13.1%, Chhetri 9.4%, Magar 5%, Danuwar 3.1%, Chamar 3%, Teli 3%, Majhi 2.8% and various other ethnicities and caste make up around 32.5% of the total population.

Religion
At the time of the census 81% followed Hinduism, 13.3% Buddhism 2.7% Islam, 1.5% Prakriti, 1% Christianity and 0.5% other religions.

Literacy
According to the 2011 census 60% of the population could read and write whereas 3% of the population could read only. Meanwhile 37.4% could neither read nor write.

Sports
In this town many sports like volleyball, football and cricket is played. Rautahat Women Football team is the best women team over Nepal and also known for the power house of women football in Nepal. Late Sher Bahadur Darlami Magar and Nepal Karki of Chandranigahapur should be credited for women soccer accomplishment in Rautahat. Nepal Karki the present president of province 2 football association shall be credited for the Nepal's first women's football academy in Chandranigahapur. Their (late Sher Bahadur Darlami and Nepal karki) dedication and effort in the field of Football is unmatched by anyone in Nepal. Nepal's first women's football academy is there in present Chandrapur.Besides this martial arts like karate, wrestling taekwondo etc. is practiced.

Media
Chandrapur has two FM radio stations.
 * Radio Nunthar F.M. - 102.6 MHz which is a community radio Station.
 * Gunjan fm -105.3 MHz is another FM station in Chandranigahpur.

Developing places
Chandaranighapur also Chandrapur itself is a developing town. Many of the places are considered to be developed in local context; whereas, some are considered to be ongoing developing places. Some of them are Judibela, Basantapur, Santapur, Nayabasti, Dumariya, Balchanpur, Banbahuary, etc.