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Monday, April 19, 2010



Siddhipur(thasi) is a village development committee in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of centre Nepal.
Siddhipur Village is about six kilometers far from Mangal Bazaar, Patan. It is one of the old settlements of Newars.

At the time of the 1991 Napal census it had a population of 5322 living in 980 individual households but now it almost more than 18000 living in 1400 individaul hoseholds.

It is typically a newar community where most of the people are newars and the main language spoken is also newari.

The main occupation of the people of this village is agriculture.Most of the people are fully depends upon agriculture field.

The per capita income of this village per person is too low.

Due to the lack of occupation in the own country Nepal, Most of the young generation people are forced to go aboard mainly in the golf countries like Qatar, Dubai etc.It is believe that at least one person from each house has been gone to the aboard country due to the lack of occupation in our own country Nepal.

Now a days,most of the young people or students are planning to go in the euro-pain countries for their further studies and most of the people are going too.

The main product of this village as an export products is 'sukul' which is simply a met made from hands .

There are different national and international projects concerning for the development of village are on the constructing phase and some at finishing phase.

One of the mutual project building 'shanti pokhari' was sucessfuly done with the help of the countries donation as well the community people contribution and help.

Siddhipur Peace Pond is located in ward no. 1 of the Siddhipur V. D. C. Previously the pond was called Phongaa Pukhu. It was a used as a dumping site with foul water. Later with the new concept of developing it, its name was changed into Siddhipur Shanti Pokhari with statue of 8 feet tall Siddhartha Buddha to be installed at the centre of the pond. The pond covers about 2000 sq. ft.. The spot is a junction of eight roads from eight different directions. It stands as a central junction which acts as a traffic island. The pond will serve as a junction of physical, social and cultural values of the locals at the same time.

Physically- it remain as a traffic belt and environmental improving tool; socially- it will be a place for gathering and interaction as there is a communal taps and water reservoir to serve the locals during morning and evening; culturally – the locals will pay daily virtue to worship the 8 feet tall Siddhartha Buddha. Therefore the pond will act as a center of peace and enhances mutual interaction among the locals. The pond is a result of combined consent and mutual interaction of the local CBO Siddhipur Peace and Development Center, Engineers Without Borders Nepal, Architect Sans Frontiers Nepal and other dedicated Social Workers. Each local villager contributed to the construction either by donating money or the labour as per their capacity and economic conditions.