A commemorative postage stamp on the “Back to the Villages” campaign :

Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 16, 1967

Issued by : His Majesty’s Government, Postal Services Department, Nepal Philatelic Bureau, Kathmandu

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colour : Multicolour

Size : 40 mm x 30 mm

Quantity : 500,000

Sheet : 50 Stamps

Process : Delacryl

Printer : Thomas De La Rue and Co. Ltd.

The Main Basis of the Programme : 

1. To strengthen and extend the spirit of Nationality and National Unity.
2. To inform the necessity of the partyless Panchayat Democracy and to develop and strengthen the partyless characters of the system.
3. To behave in line with the non–aligned foreign policy.
4. To launch a campaign for eradicating corruption, injustice, tyranny and unnecessary delay.
5. To bring about awakening and initiative in the rural society.
6. To give vent to the successful implementation of the current Land Reform Programme, the Mulki Ain (Law of Realm), Social reform, and nation-wide development works.
7. To publicise and spread the spirit and working of the co-operatives.
8. To inform the significance of afforestation, forests and the preservation of wild-life in the life of the people.
9. To lay emphasis on increasing agricultural products.
10. To spread in a nation-wide scale the spirit of encouraging and extending cottage industries suitable to given places.

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