Combating Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking SAARC Year 1989

A commemorative postage stamp on the SAARC Year for Combating Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking :

Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 8, 1989

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

Design : The commemorative postage stamp issued to mark the occasion depicts the words “combating drug abuse and drug trafficking” together with the SAARC logo.

Designer : M. N. Rana

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 60 Paisa

Colour : 4 Colours

Size : 26.5 x 40 mm

Format : Vertical

Paper : Special stamp paper

Quantity : 5,000,000 (Five millions)

Sheet : 50

Process : Offset

Printer : Austrian Government Printing Office, Vienna, Austria

About : 

• It is universally accepted drug use tells heavily on the consciousness of human beings affecting their very psyche. Abuse of drugs and their trafficking which is galloping day by day in the contemporary world poses a great challenge to the authorities around the world. This problem has taken on an epidemic form, the SAARC countries too being no exception.
• Happily however the fourth SAARC summit has committed themselves to observe 1989 as SAARC Year for “combating drug abuse and drug trafficking”. Nepal has been organizing through a national level committee various activities and events with a view to making people more aware of the dangers posed by drug abuse in the society.