Some Civil Servants and the Private sector worry about its impact on grants, capacity building, business investments, and idea sharing In a three-year time period from 2017 to 2019 various government organizations invited 11,856 people as official guests waving off the need for them to pay the USD 65 SDF. …
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In a timespan of just one week, the Thimphu City Police Station registered 10 cases of online scams in the name of Bitcoin on Telegram and KBC on WhatsApp. Many Bhutanese have fallen victim to the online scams. In the process, they have lost a total amount of around Nu …
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Clarifying on the education loan being stopped by Tashi Bank, the Prime Minister (Dr) Lotay Tshering said that the government has no direct authority over banks. The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has the authority to provide a loan and interest rate in accordance with the RMA act. “If you study …
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The Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji was on an official visit to Australia from September 10 to 16. However, soon after the visit there were widespread rumors on social media in Bhutan accusing the Foreign Minister of having asked the Australian government to discourage Bhutanese being given visas. Though there was no proof …
Read More »Recently, when the Tashi Bank stopped giving its education loans there was a lot of speculation that the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) had stopped the loan to discourage people from going to Australia. However, a RMA official clarified that there was no such order from the RMA to T-Bank. The …
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A leaked copy of the Civil Service Reform Bill 2022 which was widely available on WhatsApp has lead to some discussion among civil servants. The Bill lays out the much anticipated restructuring of the civil service in terms of doing away with the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) …
Read More »One of the major changes coming out of the civil service reforms are the creation of new positions called ‘Clusters’ and ‘Cluster or Coordination Secretaries’ who are proposed to be in charge of the four clusters of Governance, Economy, Social and Security cutting across ministries. The Royal Civil Service Commission …
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Also gives more rights to private landowners than before One of the unspoken fears of a private landowner in Bhutan is to have his or her land being acquired by the government for some local or national project. However, the new Land Acquisition and Compensation Rules and Regulations, 2022 (LACRR …
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Encroaching on government land is almost a national past time in Bhutan with around 7,000 such known cases of clear encroachment prior to 2019. Private fences or boundaries seem to mysteriously move on their own into government areas, and after a few years the encroacher will be found proclaiming how …
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According to the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB), flights from Kathmandu, Delhi, Bangkok, and Calcutta, brought in a total of 120 foreigners at Paro International Airport yesterday but not all were tourists. There were 89 tourists among them with the other 30 coming via Phuentsholing meaning 119 tourists in total. …
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