Vijaya Nagar

This article is about a village in Mangalpur VDC in Chitwan, Nepal. For other uses, see Vijaynagar.

Vijaya Nagar विजयनगर
Village
Country	Nepal
Zone	Narayani Zone
District	Chitwan District
Time zone	Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)

Vijaya Nagar is a small village in Chitwan district of Nepal. It is the ward number 8 of the Mangalpur VDC. It's close to Narayani river and lies about ten kilometers west from the city of Narayangarh and about 3 kilometers away from Rampur.

History

Before the 1950s, the place was a part of a huge and dense jungle known as Charkoshe-Jhaadi teeming with all kinds of wild animals and plants including Royal Bengal Tigers, one-horned rhinoceroses, pythons, bears, antelopes, and so on, with not a single human being daring to settle in there. Men coming down from the high mountain regions like Lamjung, Tanahun/Tanhun, Gorkha etc., started clearing jungles to make space for a new place to live in and to make land for the essential agriculture.

Today, it is one of the rapidly growing point of the whole Mangalpur VDC area. It has got a secondary school - Shree Durga Madhyamic Vidyalaya or Shree Durga Secondary Highschool, one English medium primary school, a diary factory, a popular co-operative organisation of the local farmers and business men, one youth-club for social work and services and so on.

Demographics

This village is a place where one can see a mixture of people from different cultures, ethnicities and origins. There are Rais, Magars, Gurungs, Tamangs, Newars and Tharus with their own mother tongues in addition to the people of different castes whose mother tongue is the proper Nepali language.