EDITORIAL

Climate Change is here

For many years now, Bhutanese have been noting the drying water sources impacting both agriculture and drinking water in both rural and urban areas across Bhutan. This is a clear and visible impact of climate change as a heating planet and erratic rain and snowfall means traditional water sources can …

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Bullying

When it comes to education in Bhutan the discussion these days centers around teacher shortage, Dzongkha, board results, STEM subjects, Humanities, exams etc. In all of the above, important matters like student welfare, mental health, a safe school space and well-being of students is ignored or not given priority. While …

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Vehicle breakdowns

Ever since the issue of large numbers of Euro 6 diesel vehicles breaking down have come to the fore, the reaction of the responsible officials has been a mix of defensiveness and denial. The common refrain has been that no written official complaint has been filed on the vehicles or …

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Meetings

Whenever a service provider or official is not in office, the most probable reason will be a meeting. If a study is done on the use of time by public officials, the major chunk of time will be consumed by meetings. Meetings, when really required, are important to get more …

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Media Red Tape

Bureaucracy is the practice of taking a bunch of well-meaning people and tying them up in so much red tape, rules and process that they are unable to function, and at the end even the simplest tasks takes enormous process, time and effort. Bureaucracy and the accompanying red tape does …

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Misplaced Compassion

The Bhutanese took an Editorial decision to publish the picture of the murder accused in the heinous Pamtsho case and this has generated some debate. There are two main arguments against publishing the image in the debate. The first is ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ and secondly the ‘emotional harm or …

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An existential threat

The Prime Minister in his state of the nation address has outlined the largescale migration of the last few years as the biggest challenge to Bhutan’s economy and an existential threat. The PM is correct as documented in this paper’s detailed coverage of the mass migration to Australia over the …

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NA asserts itself

The National Assembly (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2024 is a major move by the National Assembly to strengthen itself even against the executive that comes from it. An interesting feature is its effort to outline who will be given the chance to speak based on the push of the button …

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Education Consultancies

Bhutanese citizens should be free to move to safe countries across the world for studies or work, and this is what is being followed with no restrictions of any kind by the government. We have seen the migration of thousands of Bhutanese in the last two years facilitated by Education …

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The most important five years

The next five years will go down as the most important and consequential in modern Bhutanese history. This is because Bhutan will make several important moves in several major fields that will determine the future of this country and its people for a long time to come. The 13th plan …

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