Baranja, Nepal

Village development committee in Dhaulagiri Zone, Nepal

Baranja, Nepal बरन्जा
Village development committee
28°21′N 83°28′E / 28.35°N 83.46°E / 28.35; 83.46
Country	Nepal
Zone	Dhaulagiri Zone
District	Myagdi District
Population (1991)
• Total	4,576
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Baranja is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4576 people living in 891 individual households.^[1]

Baranja VDC in Myagdi district was declared the first fully literate area in the district in December 2015.^[2] The announcement was made as 95.2 percent of VDC's population can now read and write. Officials announced that all children had access to school in the VDC.

Resource person at the District Education Office Krishna Lal Sapkota said a total of 3,738 people between the ages of 15 and 60 years in the VDC are literate.

References

^ "Nepal Census 2001", Nepal's Village Development Committees, Digital Himalaya, archived from the original on October 12, 2008, retrieved 15 November 2009.
^ "Baranja fully literate", The Himalayan Times, retrieved 21 December 2015.