Gitanagar

Village development committee in Bagmati Province, Nepal

Gitanagar गीतानगर Geetanagar
Village development committee
27°37′N 84°24′E / 27.61°N 84.40°E / 27.61; 84.40
Country	Nepal
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Chitwan District
Population (2011)
• Total	13,929
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Gitanagar was a former village development committee in Chitwan District in Narayani zone of Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,929 people (6,553 male; 7,376 female) living in 3,375 individual households.^[1]

The town was named after "Geeta Rani" during the Rapti Land Distribution Project which occurred in the early 1950s. Gitanagar was divided into nine wards. Wards in Gitanagar include Uzzolnagar,Prithibinagar,Champanagar, Devnagar, Amarbasti, Kesharbhag, Geetangar, Parasnagar, and Indrapuri. Currently Gitanagar lies inside Bharatpur Metropolitan city ward number 6.

References

^ Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal (2012). "National Population and Housing Census 2011 (Village Development Committee/Municipality)" (PDF). p. 55. Retrieved 16 July 2020.