Khajura Bajaar

Khajura Bajaar is a municipality in Banke District in the Bheri Zone in mid-western Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing two Village Development Committees i.e. Sitapur and Bageshwori. The town is in Nepalganj-Gulariya highway and one of the fastest developing places in Nepal. A neighboring city Nepalgunj is on east(8 km), and further 6 km is the Indian border. In fact it is a growing city in the western region of Nepal.It is accessible by air (Nepalgunj Airport) and by road (559 km west of Kathmandu).Khajura Bajaar MunicipalityKhajura Bajaar is third municipality in the Banke District, with the first being Nepalgunj and second being Kohalpur. As a municipality, Khajura Bajaar will assume greater local government autonomy and greater financial resources as part of the central governments' effort to promote decentralized power.The municipality status of Kohalpur has been repeatedly stalled due to the failure to ratify the national constitution. A fourth deadline to ratify the constitution was missed on 27 May 2012.Administrative StructureKhajura Bajaar is within the Banke District. The DDC (District Development Committee) of the Banke District was recently assumed by a Local Development Officer appointed by the government. Khajura Bajaar has been declared as a municipality, but this has not been officiated in the absence of a ratified national constitution. Currently, it remains as a Village Development Committee (VDC), with 9 wards, each with a Ward Citizen Forum (WCF) serving as a community-level authority.