United Nations Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement

A United Nations Regional Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement opened in New Delhi on 21 January and ended on 17 February 1954. In conjunction with the Seminar, the Indian Government organized an International Exhibition on Low-cost Housing, one of the major features of which was a ""model village"", properly planned for community life, in which none of the houses cost more than 5,000 rupees - the equivalent of a little more than 1,000 dollars. Included in the ""village"" was a replica of the hut in which Gandhi lived and worked.
H.E. Mr.Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India as he visited the ""model village"", with U.N. technical assistance expert, Miss Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, who directed the Seminar.