Chandannath

Chandannath is a municipality in Jumla District in the Karnali Province of Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Mahat Gaun, Talium, Kartik Swami (Jumla), and Chandannath village development committees (VDCs).^[3][4] At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 5,842 persons living in 1,000 individual households.^[5]

Chandannath चन्दननाथ नगरपालिका
Municipality
Photo of Chandannath Municipality taken from a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
Chandannath Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 29.17°N 82.12°E / 29.17; 82.12
Country	Nepal
Province	Karnali[1]
District	Jumla
Government
• Mayor	Kantika Sejuwal
• Deputy Chief	Apsara Devi Neupane
Population  (1991)
• Total	5,842
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (NST)
Postal code	21200 [2]
Website	chandannathmun.gov.np

Politics and leadership

Kantika Sejuwal of the Nepali Congress is the first elected mayor of Chandannath; she is also the only female elected mayor in the municipality.^[6]