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mills, industries, communication facilities as well as 5000 population was declared as
urban area. In fact, urbanization is the total process of establishment, development and
extension of urban areas.

Classification of Urban Areas

Urban areas include towns, metropolitan cities, sub-metropolitan cities, municipalities,
etc. Local Autonomous Governance act 2055 B.S. has defined urban areas and given
certain criteria and infrastructures to be fulfilled by them. It has classified the urban areas
into following types:
a. Municipality b. Sub-Metropolitan City c. Metropolitan City

a. Municipality
Following criteria should be fulfilled for being municipality:
There should be 20000 population in terai and
10000 population in mountain and hilly region.
Minimum of Rs. 50 lakhs annual income in
terai and Rs. 5 lakh in mountain and
hilly region.

There must be facilities of electricity, roads,
communication, drinking water and other
sectors. Fig: 13

b. Sub-Metropolitan City
There should be at least 1 lakh population.
Annual income should be Rs. 10 crore and
more.
There should be management of electricity,
roads with footpath, drinking water, health,
education, etc.
There should be infrastructure for national
and international playgrounds, public parks, Fig: 14
assembly halls and other urban facilities.

c. Metropolitan City
There should be at least 3 lakhs population.

Annual income must be 40 crore and more.
There should be high management of
electricity, special health facility, drinking
water, main and branch roads with footpaths,
etc. Fig: 15
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