{"id":430413,"date":"2026-05-26T19:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=430413"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:54:07","slug":"limbu-language-enforced-as-official-working-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/430413.html","title":{"rendered":"Limbu language enforced as official working language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fikkal (Ilam): <\/strong>Mangsebung Rural Municipality<strong> <\/strong>in Ilam has enforced the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as an official working language from Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 66th municipal executive meeting held on 24 April 2026 enforced the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as the official working language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangsebung has implemented the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as an official working language, utilising the rights granted at the local level as per Schedule 8 of the Constitution and Section 11 (f) (1) of the Local Government Operation Act, 2074 BS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the presence of Province Chief Parshuram Khapung, also the chief guest of the programme, Mangsebung Chairperson Hemant Rai formally declared &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as the official language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairperson Rai stated that Mangsebung rural municipality having majority of &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; (written in Kirat Sirijanga script) speaking people, has been declared to have Limbu as the language for official works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the National Census 2021 data, Mangsebung, with a population of 16,810, has 42.83 percent Limbu and 33.6 percent Rai ethnic groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on ethnic and linguistic majorities, Mangsebung has declared and enforced &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as a working language at Ward No. 5 office since 29 November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fikkal (Ilam): Mangsebung Rural Municipality in Ilam has enforced the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as an official working language from Tuesday. The 66th municipal executive meeting held on 24 April 2026 enforced the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as the official working language. Mangsebung has implemented the &#8216;Limbu language&#8217; as an official working language, utilising the rights granted at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-430413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430414,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430413\/revisions\/430414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430413"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=430413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}