Youth Unemployment is a seemingly contradictory scenario although statistics boast a significant reduction of 7.3% from the prevalent 9.3%. The labor ministry’s recent decision to come-up with an exclusive ‘Career and Employment Guidebook’ is therefore a supplementary move to address this issue. Labor Minister Dorji Wangdi said majority of jobseekers …

The Labor and Employment Act 2007 still remains a paper-tiger although 18 regulations are in place and regular inspections have been conducted. Even after many rounds of awareness programs to sensitize stakeholders, employers and employees are still not adequately aware of the most important provisions in the Act. Recently, labor …

The Prime Minister and the agriculture minister justified the institution of the much contested ‘Pedestrian Day’ during the monthly Meet the Press session. Lyonpo (Dr.) Pema Gyamtsho said government is aware that all sections of the Bhutanese society are inconvenienced. He said all this is of a short-term nature but …

In what has been a common occurrence, after nearly every recruitment process there are rumors and allegations about pre-selected candidates, unfair selection process or employers being biased. To prevent the above and also create a uniform and fair recruitment process the Ministry of Labor and Human Resources (MoLHR) yesterday launched …

The Rural Education Foundation (REF) is a public benefit organization which helps the less-privileged children avail the free education facilities provided by Government while it also provides basic necessities of life to brighten their every day. The REF puts this aspect forward as their outstanding feature which also sets them …

The Rickety Debsi Bridge in Chang gewog in Thimphu is finally under renovation, and this time round funded from the gewog Budget. The budget allotted for the renewal of the bridge is above Nu 0.2mn. However, people have not forgotten the sour odyssey with the previous budget that was collected …

Bhutan is known for its mega hydro projects that involve billions of dollars and years of construction. However, Karsang Dorji an Executive Engineer for Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) has come up with two simple but effective inventions to generate green electricity using a few spare parts. Both inventions are …

What fuel is to fire, vital-statistics are-to development plans! And hence demographic and socio-economic data have acquired priority-status for Bhutan, especially since the 11th Five Year Plan is in the process to be refined and better monitor of performance of development indicators is high on agenda. On this note, a …

More Bhutanese will operate heavy machinery by 2013 after the labor ministry’s establishment of Samthang Technical Training Institute (STTI), which will train heavy machine operators. A second successful batch of 20 machine operators was trained to operate heavy machines by the ministry in collaboration with the Construction Development Corporation Limited …

Youth unemployment rate has declined from 9.3% to 7.3% this year according to the Labor Force Survey Report of 2012. The PM in his state-of-the-nation report credited it to good policies, good governance and sustained growth. It was found that jobseekers aspire d to take up white collar jobs and …