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Education minister says final decision from BCSEA coming in next one or two days Though no minister in the monthly, meet the press, said it explicitly yesterday, there was a clear preference from the cabinet and the PM to give the students their original English II marks and then …
Read More »On B.Ed issue PM says govt colleges will not equate to govt jobs
Taking a clear position on the issue of RCSC issuing a limited number of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) jobs, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that the assumption that every B.Ed graduate student would automatically get a government job is wrong to begin with. There were 182 vacancies for …
Read More »Govt says Budget Committee should not lead to big changes
One of the big surprises of the winter session of Parliament was an amendment in the National Assembly Bill that requires the National Assembly to form a ‘Budget Committee’ of MPs who would study the Budget Bill in detail and provide their feedback before it can be passed. This was …
Read More »Govt ready to submit its evidence to RCSC on three secretaries issue
The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that as requested by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) the government had prepared its evidences and was ready to drop then at RCSC. The PM also expressed appreciation to the RCSC for accepting to keep the secretaries until the investigation on the …
Read More »Reducing govt ad expenditure and more priority to state media may result in Bhutan with no private media: DoIM report
The report also proposes some new solutions which are finding traction with the private media The private newspapers have been voicing out on the business downturn due to the reduced government advertisement revenue and the priority given to the state media over the last few years. But nothing was …
Read More »A Lolay recitation before His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen to mark Nyilo
A group of children from schools in Thimphu recited lolay to mark Nyilo yesterday (Winter Solistice in the lunar calendar) before His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen at the Lingkana Palace. Nyilo (marking the return of longer days according to the lunar calendar) is traditionally observed as …
Read More »RCSC puts 3 secretaries on approved absence and asks govt to submit evidences
After days of suspense the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) on Monday announced that, for the moment, it cannot accept the surrender of the Cabinet Secretary, Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of Ministry of Economic Affairs. It has, in short, advised the cabinet to pursue the …
Read More »Violence in Assam’s Bodo regions affects Bhutan
Bhutan’s neighbor Assam, or at least its Bodo dominated areas consisting of four districts including adjoining areas are up in flames after 81 people got killed in violence initiated by militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S) of the I.K Songbijit faction on 23rd December 2014. Of the …
Read More »Land Kidu of 123,071 acres granted to 102,336 beneficiaries so far
His Majesty The King granted land kidu to 9,758 beneficiaries from 11 gewogs in Samdrup Jongkhar. The beneficiaries received a total of 15,328.28 acres of land as Kidu, as well as excess cost exemption and refund. With Samdrup Jongkhar, land kidu to resolve accumulated land issues across the country has …
Read More »Cabinet Secretary admitted to not informing Cabinet on CoS issue
Meanwhile a letter and CoS minutes throw more light on the issue A senior Cabinet Secretariat official told The Bhutanese, on the condition of anonymity, that the Cabinet Secretary Dasho Penden Wangchuk in a 9th December 2014 cabinet meeting had admitted to not informing the PM and the Cabinet on …
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