 However data derived more recently for marriage and education details has suggested in 2001 the population had grown to over 5000.On July 27, 2002, the Kathmandu Post reported that the summer monsoon's flooding had caused over 900 families in the Lumbini Zone, including people from Kumarwarti had been displaced from their homes.In November, it was reported that Maoist cadres had attacked the Kumarwarti VDC and robbed local farmers' of their rice.