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The Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) in a second press release this week (a copy of which was not sent to this paper) again alleged that the government was not managing debt well and that the current government’s trends in debt management will make it unsustainable. DNT quoting the IMF report …

Four government-owned corporations have voluntarily agreed to extend paid maternity leave to six months from the mandatory two months according to labour minister Ngeema Sangay Tshempo. The four entities are the National Housing Development Corporation Limited, the Rural Enterprise Development Corporation Limited, the Bhutan Agro Industries and the Construction Development …

In what is aimed at being a revolutionary move towards better accountability from the bureaucracy, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) will be coming up with individual scores for 24,104 civil servants from the S 5 level and upwards till P 2 level by June end this year. The ranking …

The cabinet around a month ago decided that Bhutan will not join the World Trade Organization (WTO) for now. This is after a joint committee of officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), set up around two years ago to study the matter …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay around two weeks ago wrote to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) to revisit and look into the grievances of the Supervisory and Support (S&S) category of civil servants. “These S&S civil servants would know what is good for them,” said the PM. The main complaint of …

The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay has written to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) asking them to refrain from criticizing the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), and to not challenge the ACC in the court of law on the Trongsa land case. The OAG after reviewing the Trongsa Land …

A Civil service hike would only be considered once hydro revenue starts flowing in The government on 22nd February, 2017 announced the formation of the third Pay Commission to look into the pay, allowances and benefits of the local government (LG). The commission was formed based on the recommendations of …

In a sign that the Parliament is still trying to resolve the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal Motor vehicles agreement (BBIN) quandary the 4th May Joint Sitting for BBIN was postponed to 15th June. According to a Member of Parliament (MP) this postponement was decided on after a meeting between …

The Parliament’s ‘National Committee on Parliamentary Entitlements’ comprising of members from the ruling party, opposition party and National Council recently met to discuss and propose two entitlement issues that came before it. The first was on exemption of sales tax and customs duty or vehicle quota  for both the outgoing …

The Thimphu Thromde has relaxed the tracksuit rule by a day and decided to allow students in the capital to wear tracksuits on Fridays and Saturdays, but not on other days. According to earlier directives students were allowed to wear tracksuits only on Saturday during their health and physical education …