Kharmee Khotang

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Kharmi is a town and Village Development Committee (VDC) in Khotang District in the Sagarmatha Zone of eastern Nepal.

Kharmi is located at two hours walk from Diktel, headquarter of Khotang District. Surrounded by Baspani, Diktel, Patheka, Jalpa, Nerpa and Baksila. This village streches from Tapkhola at the bottom to Rupakot at the top. Tapkhola is the main river dividing the Kharmi from Baksila and Baspani and is popular in fishing in the region.

Due to the topographical variation, the temperature varies widely in Kharmi from snowfall in winter at Rupakot to the temperate weather near the Tapkhola region at all seasons.

Many primary and pre-secondary schools are located at various wards and one secondary school - Kalika Secondary perched at the center of the village to meet the need of the education. A road network already reached to Kharmi. Most of the wards have electricity access from Tapkhola Hydro-electric project operated in community based scheme. A health post with a health assistant in the village serves the primary health care to the people.

Wireless communication network such as cdma and cell-phone(Ncell, Namaste, Sky Phone) are available throughout the wards. Two or three houses share the running water for drinking and washing purpose.

The natural resources of Kharmi is water and forest. A number of streams run within the village that are helping to generate power from the micro-hydro for the public, and to irrigate the crops. Beside this, enormous biomass resource provide feeding to the animal and energy demand in the house for example cooking and heating. In addition, agricultural yield compares to other village and now the cash-crop such as Alainchi, Chiraito and turmeric powder are main economic sources of the people. In this way, the large chunk of economy is driven by the agricultural yield and few is supported by the people who serve in the foreign country.

The population consists of mainly Rai, Tamang, Newar and Chhetri. A good cultural and religious harmony can be seen among the people from various ethnicity. The main festival observed in Kharmi is Sakela, a major festival of Kirant Rai. People from other villages also come to celebrate the festival.

Basically Kirant Rai worship and believe in nature and so is a form - Sakela.