Reasons to Divide Nepal into Development Regions, Zones and Districts

Here we have presented some reasons to divide Nepal into Development Regions, Zones and Districts. In Nepal, Districts were called “Bish” in Baidik era, but in Lichhabi era, districts are known as ‘Bisay’. Nepal is divided into 39 districts in the year. There were 4 development regions in the year 2029 B.S.

Nepal is divided into 14 zones and 75 districts, grouped into 5 development regions. Each district is headed by a fixed chief district officer responsible for maintaining law and order and coordinating the work of field agencies of the various government ministries.

For administrative purpose Nepal is divided into fourteen zones and 75 districts. Please see map-Ill in this respect. The districts and zones have been regrouped into five development regions to promote development. In previous system, each district was further divided into several small units called village or town ‘Panchayat’. Now Village Panchayat is called Village Development Committee and Town Panchayat is called Municipality. In 2014, there were 4015 Village Development Committees and 130 municipalities. Each district is headed by a Chief District Officer (CDO), a government official. He is mainly responsible to maintain law and order in his district and also to co-ordinate the works of field departments of various ministries. Similarly, in each of the 75 districts of the country, an officer desig¬nated as Local Development Officer (LDO) is posted by the Ministry of Local Development to help, supervise and co-ordinate the develop¬ment plans and projects of the Village Development Committees and Municipalities.

For the smooth and effective running of administration
For executing the democratic principle of “decentralization of power”
For bringing out balanced and proportionate development in all parts of the country
For the harmonious or parallel development of the country
For the elimination of the regional disparity
To carry out development works more rapidly at local level
To make grand local participation in the development works
To provide and create job employment opportunity for local people
To decrease in rate of migration or Discouragement of migration for equal
For the proper and. sustainable utilization of the locally available means and resources
To foster the democratic principle of decentralization
To bring out harmonious development of the country and its people
To develop the feeling of national unity and sense of owners among the people in different parts of the country.
Development cab be carryout out in local level
Mobilization of human power at the local development
For ensuring proportionate representation of all groups of people in the national policy and government
For increasing people’s active participation for sustainable development
Each region consisting of people from more or less the same economic, social and cultural background. i.e. Sherpa, Tamang and Tibet origin people in the north: Chhetry, Brahman, Gurung, Rai, Limbu, etc in the middle and Tharu, Rajbanshi, Satar, Dhimar, Yadav, Kushwaha, Mushar, Chamar etc. in the south.