Damak municipality

Damak is a town and municipality in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It is situated between the Ratua Khola (River) in the east and the Mawa Khola (River) in the west. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 41,321 people living in 7,644 individual households.[1]

Damak was changed to a municipality from a VDC (Village Development Committee) in the year 1982 AD. The Damak municipality consists of 19 wards which also includes the large Himalayan Tea State,( हिमालय गूडरिक )where the Royal Family has also invested. The municipality covers an area of 7,513 hectares and is at an average of 100 meters above the sea level. Lakhanpur in to the east, Urlabari, Rajghat and Madhumalla in the west and Chulachuli Ilam and Kohabara vdc in the north and the south, respectively.
According to the census of 2001, Damak had 7,178 households containing about 35,000 people. The total area is 7,513 hectares out of which 1406.7 hectares is covered by residential area whereas 5,586.30 hectares is used for agriculture. The market area consists of 400.00 hectares, 215 hectares as forest plant area and 265.00 hectares is used in other purposes. In 056/057 there was 1 Health post, 1 Hospital (AMDA) and 1 Nursing Home (Life Line) which contains 50 beds in total. The Population Growth Rate is 5.14 per annum as per 2047/48 census. As per 056/057 census, there were about 88 industries, 1011 shops, 244 hotels and 9 financial institutions. Black topped road were 29 km, graveled roads were 150 km and earthen road were 500 km. In addition to it, the drainage runs 3.5 km through the main highway. There are 512 street lights and 1,114 telephone lines to public.Three bhutanse refugee camp(beldangi 1, 2, and 3) was also settled in damak in 1992.

Damak has three film halls,Pathibhara picture hall situated in ward no 10,Damak chitramandir situated in ward no 11, & Nilkantha chitra mandir situated in ward no 12, pathibhara & nilkantha most of the time shows nepali movies, & Damak chitra mandir most of the time new Hindi movies, damak is very good market for nepali film industries.

It is one of the important trade center in eastern part of Nepal. There are many international organizations such as IOM,UNHCR, OX-FARM, LWF, NRCS, AMDA,CARITAS NEPAL etc who are working for the refugees here in Damak.


Post Office - 1
Number of Drinking Water Taps
private - 1402
Public - 4

Educational Institutions (Including Private) (057/058)
Primary - 38
Lower Secondary - 7
Secondary - 9
Technical School Under CTEVT - 1
Higher Secondary - 15
Campus - 1
University - 0

Source : wiki