Melung Rural Municipality

Melung is a Rural municipality located within the Dolakha District of the Bagmati Province of Nepal. The municipality spans 86.54 km2 of area, with a total population of 20,210 according to a 2011 Nepal census.

On March 10, 2017, the Government of Nepal restructured the local level bodies into 753 new local level structures. The previous Pawati, Ghang Sukathokar, Bhedapu, Dandakharka, and Melung VDCs were merged to form Melung Rural Municipality. Melung is divided into 7 wards, with Bhedapu declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.

Demographics
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Melung Rural Municipality had a population of 20,287. Of these, 78.7% spoke Nepali, 18.8% Tamang, 1.1% Thangmi, 0.8% Magar, 0.3% Newar and 0.2% other languages as their first language.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 42.9% were Chhetri, 19.0% Tamang, 8.7% Newar, 7.8% Hill Brahmin, 5.3% Magar, 5.0% Kami, 2.5% Sarki, 2.4% Damai/Dholi, 2.3% Gharti/Bhujel, 2.0% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 1.5% Thami and 0.4% others.

In terms of religion, 73.7% were Hindu, 23.6% Buddhist, 1.5% Prakriti, 0.8% Christian and 0.3% others.

In terms of literacy, 59.8% could read and write, 4.9% could only read and 35.3% could neither read nor write.

Melung VDC
Melung (the previous VDC) is now a part of Melung Rural Municipality. It was a separate village development committee (VDC) from 1990 to 2017. Melung village had more than 6 km2 of area and population according to 2011 had 3,566 with 836 individual households. This whole village is now a ward (ward no. 7) of Melung RM. Some area from Melung VDC were carved out and merged with Dandakharka to form ward no. 6 of Melung RM.

Ward division
Melung RM is divided into 7 wards as below: