Garpan is a former Village Development Committee of Surkhet district in the mid-west, named by the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh among its Chhantyal areas — far from the Myagdi–Baglung heartland. In the 2017 reorganisation it was absorbed into Birendranagar Municipality, the Karnali provincial capital, where it now forms ward 16.
Trace-back
The Sangh’s roster names Garpan as a Chhantyal locality, the presence here likely the result of westward migration. Independent sources confirm the settlement; how and when Chhantyal families settled here is not separately recorded.
At the time of the 1991 census
The Garpan VDC recorded 1,953 people in 354 households — a figure for the whole VDC, not the Chhantyal families alone.
What people do
As across these hills, families live by farming and income from work abroad.
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Sources
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