Bhimad :My Birth Place

Friday, 3 July 2009

Bhimad VDC is in Tanahun district. It is also a typical old market village of tanahun district. It is situated at the river terrace of Seti river on the southern part of the district. It has a total area of 8575 hectors. The altitude ranges from 800m to 1050 meter above from the sea level. This village is 7 km. far from Prithivi highway. It consist both the low land area as well as high land areas. Accordding the journel published by the bhimad VDC in 2058 BS, the total population of Bhimad VDC is 6990(3551 male and 3439 female). The number of households are 1159. In this VDC more than 47% people are inhabited in ward number one only because of various facilities. This VDC consists of various ethnic groups but the dominating groups are Bhramans. Magar and Newars.

Agriculture represents the main source of income of Bhimad VDC. The average farm size is small and highly fragmented. More than 70% of the farm households own less than one hector of land. The agricultural production consists of food grains such as wheat, maize, paddy as cash crops; livestock consists of cow, buffalo, goat and sheep.

Politacally highly effected this village have also played determinate role in district politics because most of the district political leaders are reside in this village but after the evolution of Maoist conflict some of them are replaced from there.If we take in account this village among other villages of the district ,this is also taken as highly developed one.Some extremist politican made the situation of bhimad so worse in the past but these days it seems little bit calm.

Of the total population 6990, more than 71% people are literate and 29% are illiterate. Thus the overall literacy rate is significantly higher than the national literacy rate which is 53.7%(CBS 2002 : 4). Male literacy rate is higher than female, which indicates that there is a gender disparity in education sector. Educational status of this VDC is given below:

In this VDC, one higher secondary school, 6 secondary schools, 6 lower secondary schools are 7 primary schools. The number of students in 2058, was 1428 at primary level, 631 at lower secondary level and 257 at secondary level of the total students, 1215 are male and 1103 are female. Female students represented about 47258 percent of the total students.The main occupation of this VDC is agriculture but some people are also engaged in various activities.

Above data shows that highest percentage of people are students which covers 31%. Then agriculture represents 27% but lower percentage of people 1.4 and 2.45 are engaged in non government and government services respectively. As a market center 8.5% people are engaged in business sector and 7.12% are engaged in aboard service i.e Indian and British army as well as labour in others countries.

Although this VDC have higher level of literacy than others but people are not able to come up and think about the social harmony.Peoples are divided into different fraction according to their political affiliation even in the social work.There is only one social organization named SAMAJIK SAROKAR SAMAJ which is really formed on the base of social need. The founder chairman of this organization is Mr Dadhi Raj Subedi ,which is also the central committee member of National Human Right Allience Nepal ,which works for the right of people.One time people used to fill the complain in this organization instead of going to police station and VDC because this organization has already gained peoples trust .Besides these it also tried to launch some literacy programme for the orphan child but due to the lack of sufficient fund that was not continued latter.However it is working for the society and it always raise its voice for the shake of society .As this VDC have alots of unregistered land plots which is still capturing by so called social worker as well self announced leader of the society but this institution always stands in the protection of public property.Most of the members of this socety are affiliate to the different political ideologies but nobody have seen such any political baisness from this institution.As bhimand have no sufficient good communication means like phone and mobiles network there were only 7 lines in bhimad distributed on the name of political parties name and for some business house but these days Nepal Telecommunication distribued hundreds of line in bhimad based on wireless CDMA technology .Besides these there is also one mobil tower so one can use their mobil easily which makes bhimad as the part of global village.