Population 5,897 (2001) Area code 066 | Elevation 760 m Postal code 33600 Province Province No. 4 | |
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Lovely bhotewodar nirav shrestha
Bhotewodar is one of the main cities of Lamjung District. It is identified as the gateway of East Lamjung. It lies in the Gandaki zone, Nepal.It was named as Bhotewodar
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because there was a cave (odhar) in this place where Bhotais used to take shelter during the winter time and used to sell their goods.
So,it was named as Bhotewodar later. It has three government schools and three private boarding schools. Bhakti Namuna Higher Secondary
School was established in 2024 B.S. Students can get education up to diploma level herein. It has got all kind of facilities like
electricity, transportation, communication, health and so on. Bhakti namuna is the first and only one school of lamjung district where student get reach to +2 science. The climate is very fine to settle. It lies near the Marsyangdi river. It
has Middle Marsyangdi Hydropower House. Newars are the first inhabitants of this place. Later on people from gurung community,
Brahmin community chhetri community also have settled here.
At the time of the 2001 Nepal census it had a population of 5897.One campus namely Bhakti adarsha campus is located here,which offer higher education (BBS,BED).