Ishwarpur

Ishwarpur, also spelled Ishworpur, is a municipality in Sarlahi District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the former village development committees of Bela, Bhaktipur, Gaurishankar and Ishwarpur and raising the combined area to municipality status. The article records that at the 1991 census the Ishwarpur committee had 14,014 people living in 249 households, a figure from before the merger. Local literacy has been rising with the help of awareness programmes run by non-governmental organisations, the government, media and residents. The town has a community radio station, Samudayik Radio Ekata, broadcasting on 92.4 MHz.