Narayan

Narayan is a municipality in Dailekh District of Karnali Province in Nepal, with its headquarters at Dailekh Bazar. It was established on 26 March 1997 by merging the village development committees of Narayan, Belaspur, Saraswati, Triveni and Basantamala, and on 10 March 2017, when Nepal restructured its local government into new units, Bhawani, Bindhyabasini and Kharigaira were added to it. The municipality now covers 110.63 square kilometres and is divided into 11 wards. The 2011 census of Nepal counted about 27,000 residents, of whom 96.3 percent spoke Nepali as their first language, 97.7 percent were Hindu and 71.1 percent could read and write. Chhetri people were the largest group by caste and ethnicity.