Reclaiming an urbane identity

There is a confusion over building a distinctive identity for Janakpur.

Janakpur hasn’t yet been able to resolve its identity crisis. It doesn’t seem to be able to decide whether it wants to remain a site of pilgrimage , emerge as a tourist spot, develop as a regional service centre with educational and health facilities or just be content with its newest identity of being the capital of Madhesh Pradesh . The contradiction between the desire to remain a holy town for Vaishnavs and the dream of becoming a secularist capital of a province is most perplexing.