Balankha

Balankha (Nepali: बालंखा) (sometimes misspelled as "Walangkha") is the headquarters of the newly formed Aamchok rural municipality in Bhojpur District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Balankha was a separate Village development committee before 2017. It became part of Aamchock rural municipality fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015. Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality).

Balankha VDC has now shrunk to one of the Ward (No.4) of Aamchok RM. According to Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Balankha has an area of 12.69 square kilometres (4.90 sq mi) and the total population of the village/town is 1696 as of Census of Nepal 2011.

It is one of the growing towns in the southwestern part of the Bhojpur district. It is about 16 miles southwest of the district headquarters, Bhojpur Bazaar, and takes about a day and half of hiking to get to Balankha bazaar.
Since the establishment of local High School in 2039 B.S, Balankha has been a Center point of this region for political and educational activities for a long time. However growth did not happen as expected due to the long political instability and desertion of local youths to cities and foreign lands for better opportunities. Now connected with road network coupled with political stability and other local development activities, the potential growth of this town is higher. The recent change of local body and election conducted in August 2017, is expected to boost the development effort to new level.