Beni, Myagdi

Beni is a municipality and the district headquarter of Myagdi District in Gandaki Province, Nepal. Municipality was announced by merging the then Ratnechaur, Jyamrukot, Arthunge, Pulachaur, Singa village development committees since 18 May 2014.^[1]

Beni is located at the confluence of the Kali Gandaki River and Myagdi River at an altitude of 899 meters. Being the northernmost of the Tri-cities area of Nepal, it is located 12 km to the north of Zonal headquarters Baglung. It is mainly divided into two parts by the Kali Gandaki River. The Western Part lies in Myagdi District and the main offices lie there. The other part lies in Parbat District and is relatively small.

As per the Census 2021, Beni Municipality has a population of 32,697. Of these, 95.9% speak Nepali, 1.06% Nepalbhasha (Newari), 0.7% Magar Dhut, 0.4% Bhojpuri, 0.4% Gurung, 0.4% Chhantyal, 0.3% Hindi, 0.2% Magar kham, 0.1% Maithili out of major ten mother tongues.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 30% Chhetri, 22% Magar, 12.2% Hill Brahmin, 8.8% Pariyar, 7.9% Bishwokarma, 7.3% Mijar, 3.4% Newar, 2.2% Thakuri, 1.9% Chhantyal, 0.9% Gurung out of major ten caste/ethnic groups.

In terms of religion, 93.9% were Hindu, 3% Buddhist, 0.5% Muslim,0.9% Christian, 1.02% Prakriti, and 0.6% others.^[2]

Overall literacy rate is 83.2% where literacy rate of male is 91.1% and female is 76.4%.

Beni meaning the place where two rivers meet was the winter headquarters of Parvat Rajya. It was on the Tibet-Nepal trading route before the invasion of Parvat Rajya.^[3]

Beni municipality has many private, community as well as government schools. Some of them are as follows.

• Beni Community Higher Secondary School
• West point Higher Secondary School
• Beni Boarding Secondary School
• Prakash Higher Secondary School, Beni
• Little Garden Academy
• Shree Ramchandra Secondary School
• Mount Everest Secondary School
• Shree Galeshwor Higher Secondary School
• Dhawalagiri Secondary High School
• Shree Arjun Secondary School
• Bhanu Higher Secondary School
• Shree Paulastya Higher Secondary School
• Lokdeep Secondary Boarding School
• Rastriya Secondary School
• Shree Jayanti Secondary School
• Shree Musung Dhole Aadarbhut School
• Deep Shikha Higher Secondary School
• Jamunakharka Higher Secondary School
• Galeshwor Adarsha Secondary Boarding School

Although Beni is small it is really beautiful. Some of the popular tourist destinations are:

• Kaligandaki Rafting
• Galeshwor Temple
• Lovely Hill
• Myagdi River Rafting
• Gateway of Mustang
• Beldhunga
• Todke View Point
• Singa Tatopani

• Beni in 2025
• Upstream of Galeshwor temple
• Lord Vishnu in Galeshwor temple

• 2004 Beni attack

• UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District
• Municipalities in Nepal: their Websites, Official Facebook Page & ICT