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The 16th National Film Awards has come in for high controversy with a film director Karma Lhatrul Rinpoche, filing a complaint of corruption and collusion against the Bhutan Film Association (BFA) with the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). The controversy centers on the selection of the best films category, whose top …

The government’s Economic Development Policy (EDP) 2017 says selective services in the health sector will be opened to private practices with the government regulating quality of health services and human resources. However, the health ministry says it cannot allow private practices unhesitatingly because they need to look at financial incentives …

Licensing for mobile service providers and Internet Service providers will be liberalized according to the recently launched Economic Development Policy (EDP) of 2017. However, while lip service has been paid to Telecom liberalization in EDP, there is no word yet on allowing a third operator. The government in 2016 said …

In a development that would cause the government to revise revenue estimates and recalculate its expenditure for the next five years, both the 1,200 MW Punatsangchu I (P I) and 1,020 MW Punatsangchu II (P II) projects are expected to undergo huge additional delays. A government official, on the condition …

If all went to plan on the hydropower front, Bhutan would have come closer to becoming a self sufficient economy during the course of the 12th five year plan (FYP) period. But this has all gone ‘topsy turvy’ after the government received a recent report in February 2017 where of …

A big change in the 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) is the fact that the preliminary capital expenditure to the local government has been doubled from Nu 25 bn in the 11th FYP to Nu 50 bn in the 12th FYP. Of the Nu 300 bn 12th FYP the capital …

Dr Shacha Wangmo and her mother Tandin Bidha will be losing nine of their apartments in their building on March 30th 2017. This is because the building is jointly owned by Tandin Bidha’s other daughter Sonam Wangmo who Ap SP alleged took money from him and won a case in …

The 2010 Economic Development Policy (EDP) had a lot of grand aims but except for a few areas it failed to achieve most of its targets. The 2017 EDP document learning from the failures of the 2010 EDP has come up with a number of game changing and bold reforms …

And in the Education sector too One of the big reforms of the Economic Development Policy 2017 is allowing private investment in the Health sector. The EDP says that selective services in the health sector will  be opened to private investment and practices and the government will regulate the quality …

The Economic Development Policy (EDP) of the government says that the Tourism Council of Bhutan will draw up a strategy for tariff rationalization by 2017. The EDP says the government shall create conditions to allow more competition and greater choices for visitors which is also code for changing the current …