Pandav Gufa Rural Municipality


JAGNNATH is the newly formed rural municipality in Bajura District in the Sudurpashchim Pradesh of Nepal. It was formed in March 2017, when Government of Nepal decided to restrict all old administrative structure and announced 744 local level units in line with the Constitution of Nepal 2015. Jagnnath the name of this rural municipality is derived after the name of cave locally refereed as jagnnath which is also located in this region.

History

It is formed by merging previous VDCs named Gotri, and ward no 1 to 8 of Jagannath.
Jagnnath Rural Municipality has an area of and the population of this municipality is 9,432. It is the third smallest rural municipality in terms of population and area. It is divided into 6 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed municipality is situated at Jaganatha.