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Hetauda (Nepali: हेटौडा, pronounced [heˈʈʌu̯ɽa]) is a sub-metropolitan city in Makwanpur district of Bagmati Province in central Nepal. It is the administrative headquarters of the Makwanpur district and the capital of Bagmati Province as declared by a majority (105 out of 110) of the Provincial Assembly Members on 12 January ...
[1] It was the country's first highway tunnel. Constructed in 1917 to reduce the travel time between the Indian border and Bhimphedi it has since fallen into disrepair. [2] The entrance lies at the premises of the Churia (Churiya) Temple off Mahendra Highway in the outskirts of Hetauda, and efforts are ongoing to conserve the remaining ...
John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian who held to a firm Calvinistic soteriology. Born in Kettering , Northamptonshire , he attended Kettering Grammar School where he mastered the Latin classics and learned Greek by age 11.
The city of Hetauda serves as the district headquarters and also as the provincial headquarters. The district covers an area of 2,426 km 2 (937 sq mi) and had a population of 392,604 in 2001 and 420,477 in 2011. [2] The latest census of 2021 recorded the population of Makwanpur as 466,073. [3]
Bhutandevi Mandir (Nepali: भूटनदेवी मन्दिर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Bhutandevi , located in Hetauda city of Bagmati Province, Nepal. Hidimba is one of the wives of Bhima (one of the Pandavas ) and the mother of Ghatotkacha , a hero of Kurukshetra War . [ 1 ]
Hetauda was first established as a municipality in 1969. The sub-metropolitan was created in 2014 by incorporating neighboring village development committees into Hetauda municipality. [ 6 ] Electors in each ward elect a ward chair and four ward members, out of which two must be female and one of the two must belong to the Dalit community.
Kushmanda Sarowar is the holy pond dedicated to Mother Kushmanda. The river banks provide one of the major ritual Hindu cremation sites in Hetauda. It sees major influx of pilgrims during the festivals of Kushmanda Nawami, Makar Sankranti [3] and Teej. It is believed that she and other gods come to bathe in the holy waters of this site.
Padam Pokhari (Nepali: पदमपोखरी) was a village development committee but now it is a part of Hetauda Submetropolitan City of Makwanpur District in the Bagmati Province of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census , it had a population of 11,838 people living in 2073 individual households. [ 1 ]