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Eighth Plan opens new chapter for people of Dagana

Mar 14, 1998 13 mins read

FOR THE people of Dagana, the -Eighth Plan is more than big budgets, building new townships, opening of new schools and health services and improving roads, it is an opportunity, for them to implement developmental activities more effectively than in the Seventh Plan which was seriously affected by the ngolop problem in their dzongkhag.

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