The Department of Roads (DoR) will soon start boundary works for the proposed Education City even while the project is still in its infancy and has not seen any serious interest from developers. Apart from the boundary works, the developer has to bear the costs for technical designing, survey and …
Read More »Plans to commercialize dairy farming still on paper
After the formation of a jersey group in this gewog, villagers were told milk would be collected from houses for sale, creating a good economic opportunity. Sixteen households joined the group and each member has a jersey cow or two. The members were given a loan of Nu 50,000 to …
Read More »Cabbies agree to new RSTA rule despite ‘lucky color’ worries
With the new Road Safety and Transport Authority( RSTA) rule, all taxis in the country will be either red or white with a dash of yellow atop. “When we have so many colors it becomes so colorful and it is difficult a layman to identify a taxi,” said Karma Pemba, …
Read More »In Gasa, community forests mean business
The sum of Nu 21, 240 may not sound big these days. But for the members of Genrab Cithuen Community Forest (CF) in Khame gewog, Gasa dzongkhag, it is a fortune, after they earned the amount from the sale of non-wood forest products, the highest generated from any community forest …
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