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A heated debate was expected on Thursday over the Local Government pay hike, but instead the real action took place with the preceding discussion on the Finance Committee’s report on Fiscal Incentives. There was uproar in the National Assembly (NA) when in response to a question from the Bumdeling-Jamkhar MP …

The rumors had been flying thick and fast in the last few months, but it got finally confirmed on Friday when Dasho Neten Zangmo, the former Chairperson of the Anti Corruption Commission, joined the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) on Friday. The ceremony occurred below a mango tree planted by the …

The government has decided to come up with a ‘Commission’ to deal with the growing problem of drying water sources and shortages in the country. “The government has spent a lot of resources on drinking and irrigation water but because of climate change and definitely due to development of infrastructure …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay, around three weeks ago, wrote to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) to revisit and look at some grievances put forward to him in a petition by some members of the Supervisory and Support (S&S) civil servants. These S&S civil servants are unhappy with some civil service …

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 …