Nawadurga Rural Municipality is one of the 7 municipalities in Dadeldhura District of Sudurpashchim Province. As per the 2021 census, the rural municipality has a total population of 18,672, comprising 8,196 males (43.9%) and 10,476 females (56.1%), with a literacy rate of 72.14%. Spanning 141.89 square kilometers, Nawadurga Rural Municipality exhibits the population density of 132 people per square kilometer. Administratively, it is divided into 5 wards.
According to the latest publicly available report of the Center for Education and Human Resource Development (CEHRD), Nawadurga has 33 schools. Of these, 4 are private and 29 are public. The breakdown includes 27 pre-schools, 33 basic schools, and 7 secondary schools. Among the secondary schools, 4 offer +2 programs.
Some of the popular schools within the region include Shree Bir Balbhadra Secondary School Nawadurga 1 Koteli, Gaudeshwar Secondary School Belapur Dadeldhura, Bhuwaneshwari Secondary School Nawadurga 2 Badbasantpur, Nawadurga Secondary School Nawadurga 3, and Manilek Balkalyan Secondary School Nawadurga 2 Dhileli.
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Level | Grade | Number of Schools |
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Pre-school | ECD | 27 |
Basic | Grades 1-8 | 33 |
Secondary | Grades 9-12 | 7 |
+2 | Grades 11-12 | 4 |
Center for Education and Human Resource Development. (2081 BS). IEMIS Report 2081. CEHRD.
Central Bureau of Statistics. (2021). National Population and Housing Census 2021. CBS Nepal.
YIPL, MoFaLD, & OKN. (n.d.). Nepal local level map [Dataset]. GitHub. https://github.com/younginnovations/nepal-locallevel-map