Itahari

Itahari इटहरी is a town that is located at the main transportation junction of eastern Nepal. It is the center of the west-east Mahendra highway and south-north Koshi Highway and thus is a town of emerging importance in western Nepal near the city of Dharan. Soon this town will grow enough to reach the borders of Dharan. The vision of the city is Clean,Green and Commercial City. The streets are like a boulevard. The city became municipality in 2053 BS. The city has enourmous potential to become a business hub of Nepal because it lies in the middle of big cities. All the nearest suburbs resident depends upon itahari's business market. New bus park which has been built recently boast its outstanding service and reliability. It is one of the biggest bus park in eastern Nepal connecting passengers all over the country. Itahari municipality has nine wards which is very uncommon for municipility in Nepal. The municipality office is in the eastern line in birendra chowk. The building is two tier with resplendent lake beside it. The lake is called mechi kali pokhari(lake). In the middle of the lake there is a shish mahal(Glass House in english) which was inaugarated by CPN-UML president Madhav Kumar Nepal. At the embankment there are wodden statues which reflects the artistic nature of Itahari resident. At the back of the lake there is a big yellow building which was built with the help of german government.

The city is fairly big and its area is 8,733.01 hectares According to fiscal year 2056/57 the projected population of the city was 33,874. Now the city has grown rapidly with projected poulation more than 100,000. The are lots of supermarkets that boost its business. The first department store in eastern Nepal was opened in itahari that had commodities of more than 50,000 products. It is near Birendra Chowk, on the North side of Itahari main chowk( Birendra chowk).

Itahari is a paradise in Eastern Nepal. It is facilitiated with all kinds of infrastructures and also supposed to be one of the most develop town of Nepal. Municipality office is situated in the center of heaven. Streets are wide and surrounded with beautiful well managed ashoka trees and flowers.Itahari municipality is one of the threemunicipalities of Sunsari district. It is situated in the Tarai region of Eastern part of Nepal. The main rivers are Sunsari, Tengra and Budhi. Besides that there are also few man-made and natural wetlands. Itahari is very near from the mixed type of jungle popularly known as ‘Charkoshe Jhadi’ on the north, which provides ideal shelter for the birds. This is the reason why many local migratory birds as well as other birds are found to come very commonly from the jungle.