Naraha Rural Municipality

Naraha is a rural municipality in Siraha District in Province No. 2 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 19,369 people living, with 9,303 males and 10,066 females. Ward number 3 had the largest population 4,734, while Ward number 2 had the least population with 4,734.

Naraha Rural Municipality had 3,673 households. Ward number 3 had the most households with 870, while ward number 2 had the fewest households with 437 number of households. The most spoken language in Naraha is Maithili, which is spoken by 16,726 people. The Naraha has people who speak other languages, such as Urdu, Tharu, Uranw/Urau, Nepali, Newar, Tamang, Danuwar, Sunuwar, etc.

The top five castes of people in Naraha Rural Municipality are Yadav (6,584), Musahar (3,196), Muslim (1,909), Koiri/Kushwaha (1,131) and Chamar/Harijan/Ram (1,038) with a total population of 13,858, which forms 71.55 percent out of a population. There were 212 disabled persons in Naraha Rural Municipality with 116 males and 96 females. The physically disabled persons were 54, while mentally disabled people were 25, and the intellectually disabled were 11.

A total of 183 houses were equipped with piped tap water resources, while 3,047 houses were reported as having tubewell water facilities. A total of 5 houses had covered wells, while 339 houses did not have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (51) and river streams (3), which were reported as the household's source of water. Out of 3,673 households, 1,039 houses reported having no facility in their household while 2,568 households reported using at least one facility. Households using at least one facility, such as radio, television, internet, etc. have been illustrated in the table below. Mobile phones were used by the maximum number of households with users of 2,012, while 'bicycle' was the next most used facility with total household users of 1,943.