Gorkhe Village Development Committee Ilam

Gorkhe is a village development committee of Ilam district. It lie about 48 kilometer in the eastern part of Ilam Bazar where 5208 poples in habitate. Gorkhe cover an area of 22.06 square kilometer. The most of lad lie in the Mahabharata range and sub-divided in nine wards. In winter, it has cold and freezing climate in height part and warm in lower part of this village. Both of hindu and bouddhist people are live. Major Rai, limbu, Sherpas, Tamang, Gelbu, Magar, Madwadi, Leptcha community peoples are living. Those peoples depend upon in agriculture as well as business. Large quantities of green vegetable like christophine (squas) potatoes, cucumber, red round chill etc product and ginger, cardamom, broom grass, milk as cash crops. Most of farmer of Gorkhe have cow farming, goat farming for there economic support. Gorkhe bazaar is the important weekly mdarte of this VDC where one a week heald market people sold there products. Most of busnise main come from India to buy green vegetables. 

Shiva Temple, Devthan and Chitre Gomba are the main religious site of Gorkhe Village development Committee where one a year annual faire held according the calendar.
To go Gorkhe VDC, there are two main road which link with district headquarter of Ilam, Ilam to Gorkhe gravel road via Fikkal and Ilam Namsaling Via Nayabazar.