The Department of Air Transport (DAT) in consultation with its ministry will declare parking zone three, below the airport cafeteria till the BCAA office, as a free parking area from 1st April. Currently the parking charges for zone three is Nu.20 for thirty minutes or less. “After implementing the parking …

A committee comprising representatives from government, private and corporate sectors, formed earlier this year, will review the maternity and paternity leave for all corporate and private organizations. The second committee meeting, coordinated by labour ministry, was held on Wednesday, where the members explored the matter and presented recommendations received from …

The recently launched Economic Development Policy (EDP) 2017, states that major public procurement works shall have a minimum defect liability period of three years and an inbuilt system of repair and maintenance thereafter, to ensure quality and sustainability of public infrastructure. But officials from Ministry of Work and Human Settlement …

The two existing telcos, Bhutan Telecom and Tashi InfoComm, maintain that the Bhutanese market is too small to sustain a third operator and that they are faced with numerous challenges in providing efficient and customer satisfactory services at the moment. According to Tashi InfoComm one major impediment is getting loans …

Close to 500 pensioners have registered for the Lotedh (Semso) Scheme, which was launched on July 1, 2015 as a tribute to His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo by the national provident and pension fund Five members have passed away since then and benefits were paid from the Nu 800,000 …

A number of city buses parked for almost two months near Lungtenzampa School has resumed plying the Thimphu city routes with the schools reopening last week for the 2017 academic year and construction work once again picking up pace. According to the director of Thimphu City Bus Service, Sonam Dendup, …

The recently implemented parking fee collection system at the Paro airport has sparked much debate regarding the charges levied on the drivers. Many took to social media to outpour their grievances and disagreement of such charges with many terming the existing rates as ridiculous, open daylight robbery and a very …

The ministry of agriculture will be import five metric tonnes (MT) of rice seeds from Bangladesh to promote double cropping of paddy and reduce import of the staple diet. “The seeds will be used to cultivate spring rice from February to June in the mid and low altitude areas between …

Negligence, besides extreme weather and rugged terrain, slowed construction of the farm road to Raminang village in Lunana gewog, Gasa, from Goen Tsephu in Punakha according to an internal audit report. In the past year and a half only three kms of the farm road was built. Work began in …

Licensing for mobile service providers and Internet Service providers will be liberalized according to the recently launched Economic Development Policy (EDP) of 2017. However, while lip service has been paid to Telecom liberalization in EDP, there is no word yet on allowing a third operator. The government in 2016 said …