DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Thromde to form a separate team for potholes The four-lane road project spanning from the road near the Bhutan Telecom Limited head office till Jungshina Bridge was to be completed by the end of May 2021 as per Thromde plans. However, the project could not be completed on the expected time. …

After winning the bye-election held in the Mongar and Nganglam constituencies, the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) candidates expressed their gratitude and also their commitment to completing the pledges in the remaining years of the government’s tenure. Karma Dorji, Nganglam constituency, said he will immediately meet with the government to discuss …

The Local Area Plan (LAP) for Kabisa under Thimphu, which was started in the middle of 2017, is likely to resume soon. Though all the public consultations were done by 2018, they could not progress with the work due to issues raised on the conversion of wetland to dry land …

Member of Parliament of Nanong Shumar Lungten Namgyal requested the government to share the plans and measures to solve the problems faced by the Class XII students who qualified for higher studies due to the limited number of intake for students in the colleges. Wamrong MP Karma Thinley asked whether the …

Meanwhile, both the houses adopted the Lhengye Zhungtshog Bill of Bhutan, 2020 During the Joint Sitting of the Parliament, the house deliberated on the 7 disputed clauses of the Lhengye Zhungtshog Bill of Bhutan 2020. The Vice-Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Lhengye Zhungtshog Bill of Bhutan 2020, Ugyen …

The two candidates from the Mongar constituency faced each other and discussed their pledges on a LIVE TV public discussion last Monday. The candidate from Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, Karma Lhamo, pledged to build a mother and child hospital, and pave roads. She also pledged to blacktop Kilikhar to Labtsa farm …

The Chairperson of the Good Governance Committee Sangay Dorji presented the review report of the farm road issues at National Council on Friday and said that giving due consideration to the importance of farm roads, in the 12th Five Year Plan, the Royal Government has allocated Nu. 1,050 million (1.5 …

It has emerged that when Penjore was detained or arrested on 6th of May by the Royal Bhutan Police, it was done without an arrest warrant at the time. Section 165 of the Civil and Criminal Procedure Code of Bhutan (CCPC) lays out 14 conditions for arrest without warrant like …

During the deliberation on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Amendment Bill of Bhutan 2021 on 10 June, the Chairperson of the Good Governance Committee (GGC) of the National Council (NC), Sangay Dorji, said although the principle and rationale of the GST Bill of Bhutan 2021 is to mend the …

In a turnaround the two Party Presidents of DNT and DPT informed the ECB on 2nd June that they will now not be going for campaigning for the bye-elections in Nanglam and Mongar given the COVID-19 situation. In an earlier meeting with the ECB, the DNT had said that their …