The Druk Punjab National Bank (PNB) has stopped giving the special education loans for students aspiring to go to Australia. This comes a few weeks after the Tashi Bank had also stopped the same. T-Bank had to stop its education loan after exceeding the RMA rules that forbids any bank …
Read More »No loans for 6 months if you don’t pay loans within 90 days
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) in a recent notification to all Financial Institutions (FI) has laid down strict new guidelines for Non Performing Loans (NPL). An NPL is a loan which has not been paid for 90 days or more. As per the RMA order if anybody enters NPL then …
Read More »New online system to give you a business license within a day and identify those holding it up
Integrated Business Licensing Service system to bring all regulatory bodies, 20 Dzongkhags, 4 Thromdes and agencies into one platform so that business licenses applicants don’t need to run around for clearances For business people, big or small, one of the main headaches is getting a business license and renewing it …
Read More »Govt says 16,000 guests from 2017 to 2019 came without SDF and so SDF now applicable for all official and personal guests
Some Civil Servants and the Private sector worry about its impact on grants, capacity building, business investments, and idea sharing In a three-year time period from 2017 to 2019 various government organizations invited 11,856 people as official guests waving off the need for them to pay the USD 65 SDF. …
Read More »Foreign Minister clarifies he went to Australia to ask for more training and work visas
The Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji was on an official visit to Australia from September 10 to 16. However, soon after the visit there were widespread rumors on social media in Bhutan accusing the Foreign Minister of having asked the Australian government to discourage Bhutanese being given visas. Though there was no proof …
Read More »Druk-PNB offers same education loan as T-Bank and RMA clarifies
Recently, when the Tashi Bank stopped giving its education loans there was a lot of speculation that the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) had stopped the loan to discourage people from going to Australia. However, a RMA official clarified that there was no such order from the RMA to T-Bank. The …
Read More »Leaked Civil Service Reform Bill leads to debates among Civil Servants but RCSC explains how changes are deeper beyond physical restructuring
A leaked copy of the Civil Service Reform Bill 2022 which was widely available on WhatsApp has lead to some discussion among civil servants. The Bill lays out the much anticipated restructuring of the civil service in terms of doing away with the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) …
Read More »Civil Service reorganized into 4 Clusters of Governance, Economy, Social and Security across ministries with a Coordinating Secretary heading each one
One of the major changes coming out of the civil service reforms are the creation of new positions called ‘Clusters’ and ‘Cluster or Coordination Secretaries’ who are proposed to be in charge of the four clusters of Governance, Economy, Social and Security cutting across ministries. The Royal Civil Service Commission …
Read More »Why the SDF of INR 1,200 was imposed on Indian Tourists
The INR 1,200 per day SDF for Indian tourists is aimed at checking mass tourism which was becoming a major issue in Bhutan.Bhutan was being sold as a destination cheaper than most mass tourism sites in India like Goa, Manali, Darjeeling etc. by some Indian tour operators. The result was …
Read More »New NLC rules raises the bar for govt agencies to acquire private land
Also gives more rights to private landowners than before One of the unspoken fears of a private landowner in Bhutan is to have his or her land being acquired by the government for some local or national project. However, the new Land Acquisition and Compensation Rules and Regulations, 2022 (LACRR …
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