Local time Monday 9:54 PM | Time zone NST (UTC+5:45) Population 19,614 (2011) | |
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Nijgadh (Nepali: निजगढ) is a town and municipality in Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The existing Nijgadh village was merged with the existing Ratnapuri VDC and Bharatganj Singaul VDC in May 2014.
Map of Nijgadh, Nepal
At the time of the 2011 Nepal Census, Nijgadh had a population of 19,617 persons (9,528 male and 10,089 female) living in 3,982 individual households.
The town has been targeted as a site for an international airport that could handle 15 million passengers and even accommodate the super-jumbo Airbus A380 after the first phase of construction. As of April 2011, a feasibility study of the report was completed. The report stated that the airport would cover 3,000 hectares of land: 2,000 hectares for airport and the remaining 1,000 for the airport city.