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2. Information on the Project Area
2.1 Geographical Size of the project Area
Madhyapur Thimi Municipality (MTM) is one of the highest urbanizing towns. It is located
in the district of Bhaktapur in Bagmati Zone, Central Development Region of Nepal.
Madhyapur Thimi got its municipality status only in 1996 (B.S. 2053). Five Village
Development Committees namely Bode, Chapacho, Balkumari, Dibyaswori and Nagadesh
prior to this declaration were amalgamated to form this municipality.
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Municipal boundary
Ward boundary
River system
Ward 2
Ward 3
(Note : Constituent areas of ward no.2,3,4,10,11,12,14,are spaced wide apart)
Manohara River
Hanumante Khola
Manohara River
Ward 17
Ward 16
Ward 15
Ward 4
Ward 5
Ward 6
Ward 4
Ward 8
W 10
Ward 11
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W12
W13
Ward 14
Ward 1
Ward 2
Ward 9
Ward 7
Ward 12
Ward 10
Ward 11
Ward 14
Ward 3
Gakhu Khola
Hanumante Khola
Figure 2: Map of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality
MTM has an altitude of 1,326 meters from sea level and is surrounded by Bhaktapur
Municipality and Duwakot VDC in the east, Kathmandu Metropolitan City in the west,
Mulpani and Gothatar VDCs in the northand Lalitpur and Balkot, Dadhikot VDCs in the
south. It lies between 27 o 40'0" and 27 o 42'0" North latitude, and 81 o 22'30" and 85 o 25'0" East
longitude.
The municipality has a land area of 11.453 sq. km. Primarily, Agriculture area is predominant
consisting of about 78 percent of the land, residential area consist of 12 percent, industrial
area 2 percent, Institutional and water bodies 5 percent and forest area consist of 3 percent.
The maximum and minimum temperature of the municipality lie between 35 o C and 1 o C; and
maximum and minimum rainfall are 409.1 mm and 6.3 mm per year.
Population as per the Census of 2001 was 47,751 (male 24,747 & female 23,004) with
average household size of 5 (household number is 9,551 and population density of 4,298 per
sq. km). The working age population (15-59) is around 65 percent with children (below 15
years of age) 28.5 percent and elderly (60+) 6.5 percent. The projection of population is
62,879 for the year 2008.
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