Godak Village Development Committee Ilam

Godak is a village development committee of Ilam district, located in the eastern region of Nepal. It is situated between 26°50 to 26°01 north latitude and 87°05 east longitudes. Geographically it extends with the elevation ranging from 467 to 1500m above sea level in the Mahabharata range. The Godak Village Development committee cover 23.05 square kilometer of lands of Ilam district where Panchakanya in the east, Mai river in west, Jogmai in North, Laximpur VDC in south. The climate of this Village development committee is few cold and dry in winter and hot and rain in summer. A wide range of ethnics groups inhabitant. Those included Leptcha (tribes entered as native inhabitant of Ilam), Magars, Tamang, LImbu, Bramhan, Chhetri, Kami Damai and so on. They seak there native language and celebrates Hindu as well as Buddhist festival according to their religions. They follower of several religious including Hindu, Buddhist, Kirat etc. Most of people of this village are farmer. Tea, cardamom, potatoes, ginger, broom grass, milk are the major cash crops of those peoples. Godak Village Development Committee is further divided into nine wards numbers to develop this VDC. This vdc links with Ilam Bazar by Mechi Highway.