Chandrapur Municipality

Chandra Shamsher

This town was named under the late Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher, who used to come for hunting purpose. People started to live here after the naming of this place.

In remembrance of Girija Prasad Koirala. The head of Rautahat Branch's G.P Koirala Study Centre Raj Kishor Gupta does the construction of Dabari where Tourism Area has begun. Cha.pur Hospital, Janata samudayik Hospital, Chandranigahapur Hospital, Road Development, etc. have also commenced. Banks in Chandrapur include Siddhartha Bank Limited,[3] Nepal SBI, Nepal Bank, NCC Bank, Everest Bank, Jyoti bikash Bank, Laxmi Development Bank, Prabhu Bank, Machhapuchhre Bank. There is also a picnic spot as well tourist place called "sahid smiriti park" near the bank of Chandi River. At the centre of the park is a list of names of people in stone script, who contributed their life during the 10 years of revolution (51/52-62/63). It is the major picnic spot for the locals.

In this town many sports like volleyball, football and cricket is played. Rautahat Women Football team is the best women team over Nepal. Late Sher Bahadur Thapa Magar of Chandranigahapur should be credited for women soccer accomplishment in Rautahat. His dedication and effort in the field of soccer is unmatched by anyone in Nepal. Besides this martial arts like karate, wrestling taekwondo etc. is practiced.

Chandrapur has two FM radio stations.

• Radio Nunthar F.M. - 102.6 MHz which is a community radio Station.
• Gunjan fm -105.3 MHz is another FM station in Chandranigahpur.

Many of the places are considered to be developed in local context; whereas, some are considered to be ongoing developing places. Some of them are Judibela, Basantapur, Santapur, Nayabasti, Dumariya, Balchanpur, Banbahuary, etc.