The Bhutan Chamber for Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has come up with a comprehensive plan that aims to enhance private sector growth and competitiveness and in doing so strengthen the country’s economy. The plan titled ‘Private Sector Development The Way Forward,” charts out various areas that the government can focus …

Responding to allegations that the prosecution of Chang Ugyen was a case of political vendetta, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said it was not the case. The OAG in a statement said that due legal process and procedure was followed in the case. The office clarified that the …

The country’s Central Bank, the Royal Monetary Authority, tasked with minding the health and transparency of the financial sector has not been good at monitoring its own finances and functions according to a Royal Audit Authority (RAA) report. The RAA report which covers a period from 1st July 2008 to …

The Anti Corruption Commi s s ion (ACC) forwarded the Lhakhang Karpo case to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) for prosecution on, 17th September, Thursday. Both ACC and the OAG were tight lipped about the case and despite several attempts they declined to share a copy of the …

In what is turning out to be a tale of two ministries having different interpretations of tender rules, the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS) has ignored a letter from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) urging it to follow tender rules in awarding a bid for a multi-million road …

In response to a question at the monthly ‘Meet the Press,’ the Home Minister, Lyonpo Damcho Dorji said that his ministry is working on some safety guidelines and rules for archery ranges. The Prime Minister, Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that while archery was a national sport and in the ‘DNA’ …

The government’s East Development Initiative (EDI) which aims to bring about economic development in the six eastern Dzongkhags of Lhuentse, Mongar, Trashigang, Trashiyangtse, Pemagatshel and Samdrup Jongkhar will also be relying on bringing Tourists to the East in much larger numbers. To do this, the report says that the Department …

The Eastern Development Initiative (EDI) identified and prioritized Kanglung, Nganglam and Gyalpoizhing as the regional growth centers based on multi-criteria analysis which include poverty rate, rural-urban migration, land, spatial location, water, existing strategic infrastructure, economic base and potential for growth, environment, social impacts and impact on agriculture land. The EDI …

A common and often repeated narrative in the national discourse is on the relative backwardness of Bhutan’s Eastern region compared to other regions of the country. The government, in an ambitious effort, has come up with and given in principal approval to a 30 page plan called ‘East Development Initiative’ …

There is more to the recent and heated Dzongkhag Tshogdu (DT) meeting in Trashiyangtse, in which local government leaders expressed apprehensions against the Kholongchu project hiring outsiders instead of the locals who would be affected by the project. The DT has raised objections saying that they heard that a labor …