With the government publishing the report on local level restructuring in Nepal Gazette on Friday, the country’s village development committees and municipalities have been replaced by 744 local units. Now onwards, there exist four metropolises, 13 sub-metropolises, 246 municipal councils, 481 village councils and 6,680 wards across the country in place of 3,157 VDCs and 217 municipalities that came into existence after the reinstatement of democracy in 1990. The government in March last year had formed the Local Level Restructuring Commission (LLRC) to determine the number and boundaries of local units in the new federal set-up. The LLRC on January 6 had submitted its report to the government, recommending 719 local units. \