10 Kilometers Earthen Road: 31 Kilometers Number of Street Lights: 112 Number of Telephone Line: 600 Number of Post Office: 1 Number of Public Toilet: 1 Number of Public Drinking Water Tap: 1225 Number of Private Drinking Water Tap: 75 Number of Municipality Employee: 49 Waling Municipality at a Glance (Year 2021/2022) Own Source Revenue: NRP 42,338,000 Total Income: NPR 510,783,000 Number of Financial Institutions: 103 Number of Industry:62 Number of Hotel/Restaurant: 107 It is the local business center for the region with a number of food, construction materials, apparel and pharmaceutical retail and wholesale businesses. It elects its own chapter in the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the promotion of business and industry in the area. It receives a considerable amount of remittance sent by youths working mainly in India, Gulf countries and Malaysia. There is also a large number Indian and British army veterans living in the area whose remittance in the form of pensions and benefits has been a vital part of the economy since decades. Waling has a number of lodges and restaurants. Financial institutions Siddhartha Bank Limited Nepal Bank Limited Garima Bikas Bank Limited Muktinath Bikas Bank Limited Laxmi Bank Nepal Investment Bank Ltd.(NIBL) Machhapuchchhre Bank NIC Asia Bank Prabhu Bank Nepal SBI Bank Mega Bank NMB Bank Agriculture Development Bank Gandaki Development Bank, Bhumre Kailash Bikash Bank Kamana Sewa Bikas Bank Ltd. Gandaki Development Bank, Waling NCC Bank Ltd. Janata Bank Ltd. Kumari Bank Ltd. Nabil Bank Limited Agriculture Agriculture continues to have a dominant share in the local economy. Most of the farmers have been sustenance farmers but lately many are also engaged in producing cash-crops which is sold in the nearby larger cities, mainly Pokhara and Butwal. Paddy, wheat, maize, millet and legumes are the principal crops of the region. The production of rice and wheat crops in the same year is the predominant cropping pattern in the area. Weeds are a major problem in both crops grown under this system. A survey study during 1998/1999 wheat season identified major crop weeds in Waling, in decreasing dominant ratio, to be Soliva anthemifolia , Vicia sativa (local name: Kutil kosa/ akara), Chenopodium album (local name: Narabethe/Bethe sag), Stellaria media, Cynodon dactylon, Polypogom fugax, Melilotus parviflora, Lactuca sp., Alopecurus sp, Phalaris minor, Polygonum hydropiper, Polygonum sp, Oxalis corniculata, Mazus sp., Gnaphalium sp., Lathyrus aphaca, Equisetum sp., Fumaria parviflora. The more