| | International The Telegraph - Weekly (Nepal) |
 | | Gasa district represents a microcosm of the changes taking place across the nation.: Even in far flung Lunana block, a 10-day walk over 5,200 meter passes, ordinary Bhutanese are determining both the content and direction of the national development agenda. |
| | One reasons people in Gasa and elsewhere didn’t talk to their officials in the past was that, up until recently, district governors were perceived as almost medieval lords, whose word was law and who could not be questioned. |
| | Throughout, Chencho Tshering and the people of Gasa are hoping for a road to be built in their district during the current five-year development plan so that delivering development activities gets easier. |
| www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishweekly/telegraph/2003/dec/dec24/international.htm (1398 words) |
