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Date: 1966 Location: Gitanagar, Chitwan Description: Gurung farming family in Gitanagar. After the suppression of malaria in Chitwan and other parts of the Terai in the 1950s, and the introduction of a land reform program by His Majesty’s Government to make additional land available for cultivation there, many farming families moved down from the hills to start farms there.