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26-545: Bandipur is located at 27.56 N, 84.25 E and an elevation of 1030m on a mountain saddle ( Mahabharat range) approximately 700m above the Marsyangdi River Valley, 143 km to the west of Kathmandu and 80 km to the east of Pokhara . Since 1998 it is connected by an 8 km access road from Dumre ( Prithvi Highway ). Until then there was only an unreliable road, in monsoon usually not accessible or only by tractors. The mountain saddle, just 200m long,

52-755: A Catholic missionary organization. It is one of the best schools in Nepal with a track record of 100% First Division pass out in the Higher Secondary Board Examination since its students appeared for Board Examination(SLC). The legacy is till today. Bandipur has only one public graduate college "Bandipur Campus" affiliate to Tribhuvan University and offering Bachelor in Education program. Bandipur has few lower secondary schools beside above mentioned namely Dil Primary School, Ratna Rajya Middle School, Believers Academy. Dil Primary School

78-585: A special effort of theirs. Their involvement in migrant services is evidenced in their hosting at the US-Mexican border a conference for Shalom, an international network for justice, peace, and integrity of creation. In 2017 more than 3,000 School Sisters of Notre Dame were working in thirty-four countries in Europe , North America , Latin America , Asia , Africa and Oceania . Africa has come to produce

104-611: A teaching accreditation and began teaching at a girls school in Regensburg. In 1815 she asked Bishop of Regensburg , Georg Michael Wittmann , for guidance on entering the religious life, although she was unable to pursue this religious calling at that time. However, she continued to teach at the school from 1816 until 1833. The congregation was founded in Bavaria in 1833, during a time of poverty and illiteracy under Bishop Wittmann of Ratisbon and Father Job of Vienna. While retaining

130-469: Is another social organization working in child development and children right sector. Other social organizations to be named are Bhanu School Operation Committee, Bandipur Hospital Development Committee, Raniban Social Committee, Tindhara Development Committee. Bandipur Eco Cultural Tourism Project (BECT-Project) is the project that lift the face of Bandipur as one of the major tourist destinations of Nepal. BECT-Project had assistance of EuropeAid. This project

156-546: Is barely wide enough to accommodate the main street lined by 2 –3 storey buildings on either side. At the backsides of these houses the mountainsides steeply descend and the gardens are only accessible by stairs. Bandipur was established as a funnelling point of trade by Newar traders from Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu valley after it had been conquered in 1768 by Prithvi Narayan Shah . They took advantage of its malaria free location to develop it into an important stop along

182-532: Is the oldest educational institute in Bandipur established in 1976 B.S. (बि.स.१९७६) i.e. 1919 AD. It is situated near by municipality office . Bandipur hosts number of social organizations like social youth forum, public library, child club. Padma library is one of the oldest libraries in Nepal, established in Rana regime itself. Many social organizations have arisen and faded, Tindhara Youth Cultural Group (TYC-Group)

208-408: Is the only active youth club (social youth forum) established in 1998. Initially it was a loose forum and was registered under District Administrative Office in 2003. Founder president of TYC-Group is Mr. Firoz Kumar Shrestha succeeded by Mr. Tara Bhattarai, Mr. Ravi Shrestha, Mr. Suman Sun Shrestha, Mr. Purendra Shrestha and current president is Mr. Rajan Bhattarai. Hoste Haise Child Development Society

234-508: The India - Tibet trade route. With them they brought their cultural heritage and architecture which basically has remained unchanged to this day. Originally a simple Magar village in the early 19th. Century Bandipur developed into prosperous trading centre and a community with town-like features: substantial buildings, with their neoclassical façades and shuttered windows and streets paved with slabs of silverish slate. Bandipur had its heyday in

260-631: The Rana times (1846-1951), when, as a measure of its power and prestige, it was granted special permission to have its own library (still existing). In the 1970s, trading fell into a steep decline with the construction of the Prithvi Highway. For technical reasons it was logically built in the Marsyangdi valley, leaving Bandipur isolated up on the mountain. In addition to that, as a result of its poor accessibility, Bandipur lost importance because

286-774: The Congregation can be found in Rome, Italy. Much of their work has been in schools, but the curriculum vitae of a group of jubilarians in 2014, from a province based in St. Louis, showed a wide variety of assignments: spiritual direction, retreats, adult basic education, RCIA programs, pastoral care among Hispanics , in hospitals, and among the disadvantaged, language interpreting, outreach to native Americans and to migrants (also founding an Immigrant and Refugee Women's Program), and on mission to Honduras , Hungary , Sierra Leone , Ghana , and Japan . Empowering underserved women has been

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312-546: The Prime Minister's Office, Singha Durbar on May 8, 2014, Thursday announced additional 72 municipalities, including previously proposed 37 municipalities in line with the Local Self-governance Act 1999. With this announcement Bandipur has been upgraded as one of the municipalities of Nepal, previously it was proposed municipality. Adjoining Dharampani VDC was merged with Bandipur to upgrade it to

338-599: The United States and into Canada, ultimately forming eight North American Provinces. The original rule of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, approved by Pope Pius IX in 1865, allowed Blessed Theresa and her successors, instead of local bishops, to govern the congregation. The main motherhouse was moved from Neunburg vorm Wald to Munich in 1843 and remained there until the 1950s. Today, the Generalate of

364-836: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 256426370 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:06:06 GMT School Sisters of Notre Dame School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide religious institute of Roman Catholic sisters founded in Bavaria in 1833 and devoted to primary , secondary , and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry. They serve as teachers, lawyers, accountants, nurses, administrators, therapists, social workers, pastoral ministers, social justice advocates and more. The School Sisters of Notre Dame are known by

390-628: The abbreviation "SSND" and are not to be confused with another teaching order, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeN), which was founded in France. The School Sisters of Notre Dame developed from the Canonesses Regular of St. Augustine of the Congregation of Our Lady, founded by Peter Fourier and Alix Le Clerc in the Duchy of Lorraine in 1597 for the free education of poor girls. In

416-524: The city limits. In 1847, Blessed Theresa and five companion sisters traveled to the United States to aid German immigrants, especially girls and women. That year the sisters staffed schools in three German parishes in Baltimore, Maryland: St. James, St. Michael, and St. Alphonsus, as well as opened the Institute of Notre Dame , a private school for German girls. Eventually, the congregation spread across

442-456: The district headquarters of Tanahun were moved to Damauli . The tradesmen of Bandipur were forced to move down to Dumre and many even left for the Terai ; Bandipur turned a semi-ghost town. The population declined considerably. On two occasions Bandipur has witnessed some turmoil. The people were not easily and readily sidestepped by the construction of the road and fought for a different route in

468-545: The essential features of the rule and constitutions given by Peter Fourier, they widened the scope of the Sisters' educational work. Its founder Karolina Gerhardinger, known by the religious name of Mary Theresa of Jesus, formed a community with two other women in Neunburg vorm Wald to teach the poor. In 1839 they removed to a suburb of Munich, and in 1843, into a former Poor Clare convent, built in 1284 and situated within

494-524: The largest number of vocations. Since 1986, 678 members of the congregation in the United States have been participating in Nun Study of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease , a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease . Convent archives have been made available to investigators as a resource on the history of participants. The sisters participated in yearly intellectual and physical tests, including memory tests, basic living assessments (putting on

520-1169: The length of tourists stay in Bandipur. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census , Bandipur Rural Municipality had a population of 20,077. Of these, 56.9% spoke Nepali , 25.0% Gurung , 10.6% Magar , 4.3% Newar , 0.8% Bhujel , 0.5% Hindi , 0.4% Bhojpuri , 0.4% Tamang , 0.2% Urdu , 0.1% Bengali , 0.1% Maithili , 0.1% Rai , 0.1% Sign language , 0.1% Tharu and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 28.0% were Gurung , 18.6% Magar , 10.5% Chhetri , 9.6% Hill Brahmin , 9.4% Newar , 6.5% Kami , 5.6% Sarki , 3.9% Gharti/ Bhujel , 1.7% Damai /Dholi, 1.3% other Dalit , 1.2% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.7% Tamang , 0.6% Musalman , 0.6% Thakuri , 0.3% Kumal , 0.2% Rai , 0.2% Tharu , 0.1% Badi , 0.1% Bengali , 0.1% Chepang /Praja, 0.1% Gaine , 0.1% Ghale , 0.1% Teli , 0.1% Thakali , 0.1% Yadav and 0.4% others. In terms of religion, 83.5% were Hindu , 12.7% Buddhist , 2.7% Christian , 0.6% Muslim and 0.4% others. In terms of literacy, 71.8% could read and write, 2.3% could only read and 25.8% could neither read nor write. Mahabharat Too Many Requests If you report this error to

546-538: The main street have been destroyed by heavy vehicles, for which they were not made, but they can still be made out along the edges and in the smaller alleys. The library still exists and was carefully renovated in 2000. Another relic is a soccer-field-sized Tundikhel to the northeast of Bandipur and the villages importance as centre for schools for the surrounding villages. There are 6 wards in Bandipur Rural Municipality. A cabinet meeting held at

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572-434: The municipality. From June 2, 2014, Monday onward with the inauguration program Bandipur village committee, formally started functioning as Bandipur Municipality. There are nine secondary schools in Bandipur . Bhanu Secondary School established in the 1950s, only institution offering higher education till the 1980s and Notre Dame Higher Secondary School which was established in 1985, by the " School Sisters of Notre Dame "

598-406: The planning process. In the 1970s, when the first demonstrations for democracy took place in Nepal, the people of Bandipur stormed the little garrison. Several people were killed and the soldiers fled. Again, when the district headquarters were to be moved, the people demonstrated and occupied the administration. The civil servants fled during the night. Even the king was flown in by helicopter to calm

624-606: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, several convents of the congregation were established in Germany. Karolina Gerhardinger commenced her training as a lay teacher at the local monastery of the Canonesses Regular of Notre Dame in Ratisbon . She developed her skills as a teacher at the monastery until it—like all monastic communities—was closed in 1809 after the Napoleonic army had occupied Bavaria. By 1812 she had secured

650-411: The situation. However, the decline of the little town could not be reversed. Some relics of its wealthy past remain. Although many houses are in bad condition, the typical Newari architecture is preserved. A distinctive aspect of Bandipur's main street is a covered veranda extending along almost the entire length on the northern side. Most of the buildings still have little shops in them. The slate slabs in

676-453: Was a part of a European Commission/Asia Urbs-funded partnership project with the two European partner cities: Municipality of Hydra, Greece Hydra (island) and Commune d Riomaggiore, Italy Riomaggiore . Its objectives were to develop and promote Bandipur as a unique tourist destination: enhance, upgrade and conserve the built and natural environment of Bandipur; and support local enterprises to revitalize economic activities, ultimately extending

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