DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Heavier than normal monsoon rains over Bhutan and especially southern Bhutan wrecked havoc  in the last two weeks with mega landslides  cutting off the Phuentsholing-Thimphu highway and nearly all major highways and smaller roads across Bhutan. Meanwhile rivers and streams in southern Bhutan over flooded its banks destroying Sarpang town, …

At a press conference on Friday evening, the Prime Minister called for the nation to keep calm and work together with the government through the heavy monsoon that has damaged public infrastructure and temporarily blocked roads into some parts of the country. “We need to work as a team and …

By the end of this year, a crop insurance scheme is to be implemented in the agriculture sector in Bhutan. It will provide a hitherto absent safety net to the policy subscribers, among 70 percent of the country’s population, that are dependent on agriculture. Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) …

Lyonchhen interacted with the people who have difficulties finding accommodation in Phuentsholing. Speaking to over 1000 people residing in the border town of Jaigaon , Lyonchhen informed them that the government will soon start building 72 buildings with 500 units in Phuentsholing. The ground breaking ceremony was held earlier in …

Villages in rural parts of Bhutan are facing a serious shortage of manpower to carry out community projects. Also, voter participation is declining in the villages as more people migrate from rural to urban areas each year. This has the people in the gewogs worried as the second Local Government …

With the recent case on two Bhutanese being robbed during daytime by Indian nationals across the border, RBP is warning every Bhutanese to be alert and to refrain from talking to strangers. The victims were robbed of a total of Nu 460,000, important documents, ATM cards and CID card. Both …

A performance audit report on Disaster Management from 2010-2015 has found several issues like the lack of coordination among agencies,  absence of Dzongkhag Disaster Management Committees, inadequate fire safety measures in Dzongs, lack of central data base on disaster management etc. The Bhutanese in the monthly meet the press asked …

While the government has come up with central schools to improve the quality of education, however, in the interim period since many of the physical infrastructures of the schools are yet to be built, some challenges are faced such as overcrowding, outbreak of diseases and generally poor facilities in existing …

A policeman investigating the Changangkha stabbing case is in critical condition after he was hit by a blunt object from the back by a drunken man on June 27th at around 10 pm. He was on pursuit to arrest a suspect who had stabbed a 16-year-old boy to death in …

Although the Bhutan Building Rules 2002 (BBR 2002) clearly states for infrastructure to be built in a disabled-friendly way, however, the rule has been ignored by both private and government builders. A proposal called “Making Bhutan Accessible” with the objective to build accessible infrastructure for people with disabilities has been …