One of the pledges of PDP is to ‘Initiate reduction of telecom charges, such as data charges to 50 percent of the current rate or equivalent to the rates in India.’ The GovTech Agency is working on this pledge of the government, to reduce data charges, and while there are …
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Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graced the opening of the Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference, a globally significant summit co-organised by the Royal Government of Bhutan and the Tiger Conservation Coalition, at Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro on 22nd April. In the Inaugural Address, Her Majesty, under whose patronage the …
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Government Secretaries until recently have had a fixed tenure of five years after which they retire, provided they don’t retire earlier due to the retirement age. However, a closer look at the Bhutan Civil Service Rules (BCSR) 2023 released in December 2023 by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) shows …
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Recently the Bangladesh Embassy issued a press release on the visit of the Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen. Buried in the press release was an important line which said that the Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh raised the issue of Sustainable Development Fees (SDF) for tourists and requested to reduce …
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In the latest move to tighten rules around students visas the Australian Government announced more changes to the Temporary Graduate visa programs or 485 visa which will take effect from 1st July 2024. The first big change is that from 1st July onwards students graduating from vocational, diploma, bachelors, masters …
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The enrollment numbers in pre-primary education (PP) and tertiary education is on a downward trend. Earlier, since the revision of the official enrollment age for PP in 2020, which lowered the age limit to 5 years and above, there has been a notable increase in enrollment. However, the Annual Education …
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Chamgang Jail was meant to house around 400 to 500 prisoners in five blocks, but today it has around 700 plus prisoners and over half of them at around 370 are in due to drug cases. The Bhutanese talked to three such prisoners to gain an understanding of what led …
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Stringent monitoring to ensure payback of loans For some time now there has been a lot of speculation on what the Nu 15 billion (bn) Economic Stimulus Program will be used for. The only thing known was that it would be used to stimulate the economy. The Prime Minister Dasho …
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Decision on Saturday expected to come within next two weeks In the first week of March 2024 there was a lot of controversy as it was revealed that a Committee set up to study the Saturday off pledge had recommended not to give Saturday off. The government at the time …
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For a while now teachers have not been happy with the bell curve resulting from the assessment or moderation of the Individual Work Plan (IWP) whereby a few have to be placed in the Partly Meeting Expectations (PME) category. Teachers felt particularly aggrieved with the PME in the bell curve …
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