Basbiti

Basbiti
बसबिती
Village development committee
Basbiti

Location in Nepal

Coordinates: 26°35′N 86°45′E / 26.59°N 86.75°ECoordinates: 26°35′N 86°45′E / 26.59°N 86.75°E
Country    Nepal
Zone Sagarmatha Zone
District Saptari District
Population (1991)
 • Total 2,910
Time zone Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)

Basbiti is a village development committee in Saptari District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,910 people living in 539 individual households.[1]The village is located 5 km south of Rupani and 5  km north from Rajbiraj (the headquarters of Saptari district). Rupani and Rajbiraj are connected by the road RamLaxam marg and the village is situated east to the road. The people of this village are either from Hindu (the castes like Kayastha, Yadav, Sharma, Mandal, Brahman, Bhagat, Chaudhary, Teli) or from Muslim society. It has only one secondary school and a madarsha (a school in which children are educated in Urdu and about Islam). One industrial state is also located at this vdc named as Gajendra Narayan Singh industrial state (named after the late person and founder member of Nepal Sadbhawana party) which was built with the joint co-operation of Nepal government and India government. The literacy percent of this village is low but day by day the literacy percent is increasing. The life style of this village is simple. The main business of the people is farming and working at golf country. People from the Hindu community celebrate feasts like Dashain, Tihar, Krishanasthami, Chhath, and people from the Muslim society celebrate feasts like Ramjan And Bakrid.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2008.
  2. ↑ mohan karna as a local people