Kalika

Kalika is a municipality in Chitwan District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal, in what is now Bagmati Province. It was established in 2015 by merging the former village development committees of Jutpani, Padampur, Shaktikhor and Siddhi. The 2011 census counted 44,898 residents, of whom about 60 percent spoke Nepali as their first language, with large Chepang, Tharu and Tamang communities; the later 2078 census reports 52,164 people in 12,258 households. About 70 percent were Hindu and 18 percent Buddhist. Its attractions include the Kalika Temple at Jutpani, Siraichuli, Shaktikhor waterfall and Upperdang Gadi, and Kalika Hospital serves the municipality.