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To be afflicted by a lifelong disease is curse enough, but due to a malfunction in a check-up machine, the life of one HIV positive patient has been a living hell. What is more is he says he is not the only one suffering and is speaking for many other …
Read More »Flawed Cabinet decision on dam relocation helps push Punatsangchu I cost to a record Nu 94 bn
Concerns now abound on loan repayment in what has become Bhutan’s most expensive hydro project The Bhutanese has found that a cabinet decision made on the basis of inaccurate technical information in 2008 played a major role in the ballooning of the Punatsangchu 1 (P 1) project cost to Nu …
Read More »NA to dissolve by the end of this week
The cabinet members however will await the Druk Gyalpo’s Kasho and until an interim government is formed The National Assembly (NA) of the nation’s first democratically elected parliament will be dissolved on Sunday, 20 April upon completion of its five year term. On the last day, members of the NA …
Read More »Government sits for a year on reform measures to deal with the Rupee crisis
The Bhutanese has found that the cabinet has not implemented most reform measures that were proposed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) to the cabinet about a year ago on May 4th 2012, to deal with the rupee crisis. The report was titled ‘Report on Enhancing Productive Capacity to …
Read More »BCCI says rupee crisis to get worse in coming years
Hydropower construction will be a major factor Though the government has said that the rupee situation would improve in the near future especially with the commissioning of the mega hydro projects in 2017-2018, the Bhutan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) does not agree. In fact the BCCI has said …
Read More »30 civil servants resign to contest the 2013 elections
Twenty-five civil servants from eight ministries, National Assembly and His Majesty’s Secretariat till date have been officially separated by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) from their respective agencies to contest the upcoming elections. Five resignations have been rejected by the commission. There hasn’t been anyone resigning as yet from …
Read More »ACC says no ‘policy corruption’ in Trowa but points out scathing administrative and procedural lapses
The Anti Corruption Commission in its review of the Trowa Theater case has said that the commission did not find it appropriate to investigate it as a corruption case as corrupt intention cannot be established. The ACC has, however, pointed out a litany of administrative and procedural lapses and weaknesses …
Read More »Five civil servants unable to cross the training hurdle to join three political parties
Five civil servants who are all looked at as potentially strong candidates for the three political parties of Bhutan KuenNgyam Party, Druk Nyamprup Tshogpa and Peoples Democratic Party have to either pay up hefty training bond fees or not resign at all. The civil servants who have been told this …
Read More »MoEA proposes export of raw minerals to boost rupee earnings
In what some are calling a flip flop by the government the Ministry of Economic Affairs has proposed to the cabinet yesterday that mines be allowed to export raw minerals for the next two years to earn rupee. The cabinet decision on this is still awaited but sources say that …
Read More »Growing inflation pushes down value of Nu 100 in 2008 to Nu 75 in 2012
In 2012 54.25 percent of inflation was caused by domestic factors and only 45.58 was imported inflation. High Inflation also means high poverty rate and lower growth according to Economists. Rapidly increasing inflation rate since 2008 till 2012 will negate high economic growth rates and also negatively impact the poverty …
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