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After the idea came under a lot of flak the PM says it will not happen if the civil servants don’t want it On 15th February, the Prime Minister in a press conference announced that the government had asked the 4th Pay Commission to come up with a performance based …

One narrative of the now infamous ‘learn and earn program’ in Japan was that it was only a small group of students making noise and that the rest were doing just fine. This line was even pushed by the government and the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources, among others. …

Other methods are through tax grants, innovative financing, soft loans and FDI The Nu 310 bn 12th plan has an official shortfall or fiscal deficit of Nu 29 bn. However, given that most of DNT’s main pledges are not in the plan this fiscal deficit is expected to go up …

The DNT’s biggest and main pledge from its long list of pledges is to build a super specialty hospital that can take care of referral patients. The Bhutanese has learnt that the government is in discussions with the Government of India (GoI) seeking up to Nu 10 bn in funding …

In another finding this week, the parents’ representatives found that having Japanese language fluency was enough to get a working visa. “It was not necessary for the students to attend the language school or pass the N2 or N3 Japanese language proficiency test exam,” said the parents committee lawyer Ngawang …

The two-member parents’ committee investigating the Japan program, which arrived in Japan on 22nd February, have so far met with around 254 Bhutanese students and come up with various findings. One main finding according to the committee is that the employment agency SND, which is BEO’s partner agency in Japan, …

The ministry forwarded the case to RCSC only after a second letter from ACC insisting that it do so The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) is looking into recommendations by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on taking administrative action against the Director General of the Department of Employment and Human …

During the National Tourism Conference, various stakeholders of the tourism sector like Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO), Hotel  and Restaurant Association of Bhutan (HRAB), Guide Association of Bhutan (GAB), Civil Society of Bhutan (CSO) and Non Government Organizations (NGO) submitted to the Tourism Council of Bhutan that lack of …

DHI and private companies tussle over mine ownership and strategic minerals worth billions Bill likely to come up in the summer session and if not then by the winter session this year The mining industry has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the last one decade. A …

One major source of worry for Bhutan’s high value and low impact tourism has been the huge explosion in the numbers of regional tourists coming to Bhutan and its related side effects. However, the figures from the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) shows that in 2018 there was only a …