Caption: Date: 1966 Location: Dhankuta Description: Two Panchayat Development Program staff members on a village field trip in Dhankuta District. The Project Engineer (left) and Village Training Assistant (right). The Panchayat Development Program ('Panchayat Bikas') was a national program promoting local development projects through government grants matched by locally contributed labor. The Program operated from the early 1960s until 1990, when Nepal's Panchayat political system was disbanded. Keywords: Brian Cooke, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, named person
