Tilottama

Tilottama is a municipality in Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in western Nepal. It is one of the three cities of the fast growing Butwal, Tilottama and Bhairahawa urban agglomeration on the Siddhartha Highway, whose combined population is given as 421,018. The municipality was formed on 8 May 2014 and first included six village development committees: Shankarnagar, Aanandaban, Karahiya, Makrahar, Tikuligadh and Madhabaliya, with Gangoliya merged in on 17 September 2015. The 2021 census of Nepal counted 149,657 people. It is named after the local Tilottama river, which in turn takes its name from an apsara of Hindu mythology. Tilottama Campus, founded in 1996, was the first private college in Rupandehi.