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Eastern Development Region

Purwānchal Bikās Kshetra
Eastern Development Region Purwānchal Bikās Kshetra
Former region
	Location of EDR
Country	Nepal
Established	1972
Disestablished	2015
Founded by	King Mahendra
Headquarters	Dhankuta, Kosi Zone
Largest city	Biratnagar
Zones	List Mechi Zone; Kosi Zone; Sagarmatha Zone; (Now parts of Province No. 1 and Province No. 2);
Government
• Type	Regional Administration
• Body	Eastern Development Regional Administration
Area
• Total	28,456 km2 (10,987 sq mi)
Highest elevation	8,848 m (29,029 ft)
Lowest elevation	59 m (194 ft)
Population (2011 Census)
• Total	5,811,555
	pop. note
Demonym	Purbeli
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (NPT)
Official language	Nepali

The Eastern Development Region (Nepali: पुर्वाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र, Purwānchal Bikās Kshetra) was one of Nepal's five development regions. It is also known as Kirata region.^[1] It was located at the eastern end of the country with its headquarters at Dhankuta. The town of Dhankuta was the headquarter of the Eastern Region, as well as the headquarter of the Dhankuta District.^[2]^[3]

History

On April 13, 1961 Mahendra, the king of Nepal, divided the existing 35 districts into 75 districts and grouped them into 14 administrative zones.

In 1972, the King of Nepal grouped 14 zones into total 4 development regions, thus Eastern Development Region came into existence.^[4]

On 20 September 2015, Eastern Development Region including all other development regions of Nepal were abolished, when the new Constitution of Nepal-2015 was proclaimed. The total area of the region was 28,456 km².

Administrative divisions

The region administratively was divided into 3 zones and 16 districts. Each zone contained 4 or more districts. Districts were divided into municipalities and village development committees.

Zones

The Eastern Development Region was split into 3 zones:

Districts

The region was made up of the 16 districts. Mechi Zone contained 4 districts whereas 2 other zones Kosi Zone and Sagarmatha Zone contained 6-6 districts.

Eastern Development Region
Mechi Zone	Kosi Zone	Sagarmatha Zone
Panchthar District Taplejung District Ilam District Jhapa District	Bhojpur District Morang District Sankhuwasabha District Dhankuta District Sunsari District Terhathum District	Solukhumbu District Khotang District Okhaldhunga District Udayapur District Siraha District Saptari District

Municipalities

Before 2014, the total number of municipalities in Nepal was 58, of which 14 municipalities were located in Eastern Development Region.^[5]

#	Municipality	District	Zones
1	Illam	Ilam	Mechi Zone
2	Bhadrapur	Jhapa District	Mechi Zone
3	Damak	Jhapa District	Mechi Zone
4	Mechinagar	Jhapa District	Mechi Zone
5	Biratnagar (metro)	Morang District	Kosi Zone
6	Dharan	Sunsari District	Kosi Zone
7	Dhankuta	Dhankuta District	Kosi Zone
8	Inaruwa	Sunsari District	Kosi Zone
9	Itahari	Sunsari District	Kosi Zone
10	Khandbari	Sankhuwasabha District	Kosi Zone
11	Rajbiraj	Saptari District	Sagarmatha Zone
12	Lahan	Siraha District	Sagarmatha Zone
13	Siraha	Siraha District	Sagarmatha Zone
14	Triyuga	Udayapur District	Sagarmatha Zone
15	Bhojpur	Bhojour District	Koshi Zone

VDCs

VDCs or Village development committees were local level body ruling in rural (village) area. There were thousands of VDCs in Nepal.

List of VDCs (zonewise)

Mechi Zone

References

^ P.2,3 Gorkhaland Movement: A Study in Ethnic Separatism By Amiya K. Samanta APH Publishing, 2000 Darjeeling
^ "Eastern Development Region". myholidaynepal.com. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
^ "1. Eastern Development Region". khullakitab.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
^ "2.3 Spatial Distribution of Population" (PDF). cbs.gov.np. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
^ "Municipalities and VDCs". www.geocities.ws/. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's village development committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2008.