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Municipal notice making building permission mandatory Limbu, Bina

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This notice from the Bhaktapur Municipality states that receiving their permission is now mandatory for new buildings, and that the building plan must also be displayed at the construction site, on pain of fines and imprisonment. Taken during the 1st phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/.

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