What is "chaumala"

Chaumala is a village development committee in Kailali District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal, near the town of Dhangadhi. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 10942 living in 1647 individual households.Chaumala is exactly located 32 km. east from the primary city and municipality of Kailali district, Dhangadhi and almost 60 km. west from another municipality, Tikapur. It lies across the Mahendra Highway, the only highway of Nepal. It has two small markets, one across the highway itself and other beyond the river.

The village has almost all sort of basic facilities, i.e. education, health, transportation, communication and electricity. There are 9 villages within this VDC; Rajipur, Chaumala, Udashi, Jhil, Mangalpur, Khurkhuriya, Maghi, Banbehada and Kuchaini respectively. It is special because there are inhabitants of almost all the 75 districts of Nepal.