Plastic waste will be given a major transformation through a creative craft program that will turn waste into useful items such as mats and baskets. Clean Bhutan Organization (CBO) initiated the program in collaboration with the Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative (SJI) to approach plastic waste management through a creative slant and …

The National Statistical Bureau of Bhutan will be conducting Bhutan Living standard Survey (BLSS) from 1st of March to the 31st of April this year. The last BLSS was carried out in 2012. BLSS is carried out with the intended purpose of gathering information in respect to health, employment, housing, …

Officials of the National Statistics Bureau (NSB), the government’s statistical agency, are not saying anything on why the Population and Housing Census of Bhutan (PHCB), supposed to be carried out in May 2015, has been further delayed. PHCB includes collection of data on the number of people living in the …

The Mineral Development Policy (MDP), which was proposed almost eight years ago, might finally be approved this year. The MDP will integrate the overall strategy for development and sustainable growth of the mineral based industry by efficient regulation and management and also restrict over exploitation of the natural resources. The …

Clean Bhutan Organization has started surveying the state of waste management in the capital to check awareness on zero waste policy, advocate behavioral change on sustainable consumption of goods and in finding the root causes of waste problems. Eight interns are doing the survey in areas plagued with waste management …

Forty-one monks of the Chokyi Gyatso Buddhist Institute in Dewathang, Samdrupjongkhar, are taking part in organic gardening classes that aspires to teach sustainable nurturing of soil through practical activities. The Organic Gardening class is part of Lhomon Education’s curriculum to provide opportunity to learn the basics of livelihood and give …

Targets ‘at risk’ of not being achieved were the focus of discussions during the mid year review of the annual performance agreements (APA) for 2016-17 signed between the 10 government ministries and seven autonomous agencies and the prime minister. While targets on the ‘Achieved and On track’ checklist were acknowledged …

Questions have surfaced on the legality of the Bhutan Children’s Parliament, which recently held its second session in Thimphu. National Council Member from Trongsa, Tharchen, has pointed out that BCP constitution should get legalization through the parliament to have legal authority to take out resolutions, demand responses and fix accountability …

Initially Karsang Dorji’s mushroom fruiting logs were rejected by the National Mushroom Centre (NMC), where he invested around Nu.130,000. Instead of loosing spirit and giving up, he studied the reason for rejection and came up with his own technique to grow mushrooms year round instead of the two season cultivation …

All major potholes in Thimphu city’s road network should be repaired starting next month according to Thimphu Thromde officials. The work is expected to start from February under an Asian Development Bank (ADB) contract package. “We are waiting for approval from ADB which is expected to happen some time in …