The Bhutanese Leading the way.
After a visit to Soe, Naro and Lingshi, Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley met with the Ambassador of USA to India Ms. Nancy Powell at the Gyalyong Tshokhang yesterday. The US Ambassador arrived in the Country on 21 October on a six day official visit. Ms. Nancy Powell was accompanied …
Read More »Enterprising Transporters sell materials in Black
People in the construction sector currently face a new nuisance added to the already prevalent critical INR crisis. Procured materials from manufacturing sectors get lost on the way and the ordered amounts of materials hardly reach the site. Just like materials procured for hydropower project construction were secretly taken from …
Read More »Training Providers Geared for Employability of TVET Graduates
To provide conventional supply and demand-driven Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVET), trainers from the public and private sectors and Training Professional support Division (TPSD) attended a workshop to design and develop the training courses. The training program will develop and design knowledge and skill courses that will help employability …
Read More »Lack of cooperation stands in safety’s way
Despite regular trainings and awareness programs by the labor ministry (MoLHR) to the construction sectors and related agencies, much required Occupational, Health and Safety (OHS) measures could not be applied effectively. A labor official said that there is a need for proper mechanism to institute and implement the rules and …
Read More »Jobs go missing in Pvt Sector as financial crunch continues
While there has been no official study on the impact of the financial crisis on employment in the private sector, anecdotal evidences indicate that Bhutan’s second largest employment sector after agriculture is in trouble. Many private businesses that are dependent on government expenditure, loans or are involved in the housing …
Read More »TTI Principals lay the grounds for a skilled workforce
As a follow-up to the resolution of the 4th Technical Vocational Education Conference (TVET), incorporation of Quality Management System (QMS) in all the Technical Training Institutes (TTI) was made mandatory. To this end, Principals from all the TTIs gathered in Chumey Technical Training Institute to prepare the manual for QMS …
Read More »Business sector’s lack of awareness and public ignorance challenges BSB’s calibration efforts for weights and measures
As was the case for retrofitting building structures, the Bhutan Standard Bureau (BSB) yet again experienced a cold response from Business sectors. Unawareness of consumers and ignorance of the sellers are the repeat culprits in the way of the implementation process. Although the deadline for verification of the measurement was …
Read More »The first TVET Graduates convocation
In a first ever of its type for Technical Vocation and Education Graduates (TVET), more than 1300 graduates from six Technical Training Institute (TTI) and two Institute of Zorig chusums (IZC) will gather for their convocation. The convocation will be held similar to University graduates’ convocations. The three day event …
Read More »Sherubtse reduces Combination Courses for Effective Management System
By next academic year 2013 Sherubtse College would reduce the double degree courses and start with single subject courses. The decision comes to light after consideration of job market factors as well as the constraints faced by the college. “In order to ensure in depth coverage of the subject and …
Read More »Kanglung residents put former Gup under the accountability scanner
Kanglung gewog residents have alleged that their former Gup misappropriated plans for the feeder road supposed to benefit more than one community whereby the feeder road now benefits only a minority. The Kanglung residents who countered the process of government’s approval of the plan and decisions taken at gewog level …
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