Lachhi: A family’s efforts to promote the ancient town of Khokana into a modern tourism hub

After the massive earthquake of 2015, the ancient town of Khokana in the southern part of the Kathmandu valley was devastated. So was Hari Nath Dangol’s family there. Like many physical structures in Khokana, Dangol’s ancestral house got destroyed in the earthquake.

“We could not rebuild our house on the land where our house was due to some issues with the land ownership certificate,” he shares. In the meantime, Dangol realised many of the families in the area shared his plight, fearing the wait of reconstruction would drag the entire settlement backwards economically.