However, issues from the past still remain unresolved   This week, the cabinet approved the Ministry of Finance’s plan to set up a State Owned Enterprise (SOE) for the purpose of starting the Lottery Business. As a start the SOE will set up a paper lottery business like the Bhutan …

Bhutan is heading for some major changes at the top levels of the government on the account of many senior officials finishing their official terms. The post of the RMA Governor is already vacant since the first week of August 2015, four Ambassadors will soon be back by September and …

This paper has found that the overwhelming amount of the Nu 6.603 bn in fiscal incentives which started from 2010 till 2014 benefitted mainly big manufacturing industries located in Pasakha and other areas. Also of the remaining amount many of the incentives also went back into the government coffers with …

PM says govt could consider asking for India to increase quota The government may be trying to promote more electric cars but its LPG consumer card policy has instead lead to increased sales and use of electrical appliances for cooking. The people are doing so out of sheer desperation when …

The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) will take a decision this month on the reassignment of the former Ministry of Economic Affairs Secretary Dasho Sonam Tshering and the former Foreign Secretary Yeshey Dorji. According to a reliable source the RCSC will not be reassigning the two secretaries to the post …

In the backdrop of growing concerns over delays, cost escalations and other issues, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has written to the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) to do a joint Performance Audit on, “Implementation of Hydropower Power Project by the Punatsangchu Hydroelectric Project Authority (PHPA-I).’ Performance Audits …

The Office of the Attorney (OAG) on Monday will be filing its appeal to the High Court against the Haa Dzongkhag court verdict against the former Foreign Minister and now Member of Parliament (MP) Rinzin Dorji. However, the OAG will only be appealing the DCM misuse aspect of the verdict …

In what is one of the biggest scams involving the highest number of government officials, the ACC investigated and found around 84 people being involved in a huge immigration scam. Of the 84 caught 30 are Immigration officials from Phuntsholing, four are police chuma, five are taxi drivers and the …

Dzongda’s wife facilitated by Dzongda bought land from private landowners at government rates under guise of government land acquisition After around two years of investigation the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) recently forwarded a land scam case against the former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji and his wife Karma Tshetim Dolma to …

His Majesty the King granted Dhar to appoint heads and Commissioners of the Anti Corruption Commission, Election Commission of Bhutan and the Royal Audit Authority yesterday. The new ACC Chairperson is the former RCSC Commissioner Kinley Yangzom. She served as a RCSC commissioner from 2009 to 2014. She joined the …