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After Lyonchhen, the OL visits Laya Opposition Leader (OL) Tshering Tobgay visited Laya as a chief guest to celebrate the Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck’s birthday. Along with him, Gasa MP Dasho Damcho Dorji and Lam Netens from Gasa and Dagana also visited the gewog. Along with birthday celebrations OL …

Enhancing the enrolment and quality education The dzongkhag Administration in Gasa with Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Ministry of Education (MoE) completed a meet to discuss proposal for enhancing the enrolment and quality of education in Lunana Community Primary School (CPS). The enrolment and quality of education is reported to …

 Dzongkhag Tshogdu begins A two-day Dzongkhag Tshogdu started on 8 October in Monggar dzongkhag. Of the many important discussions on agenda one in particular during the session was about the importance of the Local government leaders in all 205 gewogs and their benefits. During the session, local government official raised …

Survey free of disputes but harvest looks to be delayed A land survey is currently underway for the 331 households in the gewog and till date there have been no disputes between land owners. Gewog Gup Kinzang Jurmey said till now the cadastral survey didn’t face much issue over land …

Insurance officials orientates Guma community Yesterday the Guma community gathered in the gewog office for an orientation on new rural insurance schemes. One of the Royal Insurance Corporation Limited (RICBL) officials said earlier the rural scheme had only two housing insurance policies. However with the coming of New Year the …

Just one last scheme for Karma With the completion of three schemes, Karmaling is left with one last scheme to supply water to the gewog. Gup Gyan Bdr. Subba said that the limited budget was the main reason for the shortcomings. However the construction of rural water Supply scheme is …

Gewog speeds up works, govt. steps in for farm road Gozhi gewog has sped up works to complete their development activities before the deadline of 31 December. Gup Prem Kumar Dahal said the work will definitely start by this month and end as soon as possible since the 2013 elections …

  A second session of Moenlam Chenmo in Samtse Dzongkhag More than 4000 people gathered in samtse gewog to attend Moenlam Chenmo, which started on 22 October. The gewog’s Gup Wangchuk Lepcha said the annual ceremony is conducted by the Je Khenpo Trulku Jigme Choedra. The ritual will continue for …

Minor cyclone hits gewog A minor cyclone hit the gewog and uprooted the roofs of four houses and destroyed their staple food maize. The cyclone hit Chhimoong on 29 September Gup Sonam Tshewang said that there were nobody was injured but houses have been destroyed. “We have informed the Dzongkhag …

Remote village gets its farm road Batsha village under Karna gewog finally get their farm road this year. Earlier the local people in Batsha had to walk for more than eight hours which is needless to say a big cause for inconveniences. The budget allocated for the construction of the …