LETTER

Congratulation PDP for your successful pay hike! Imposing higher taxes on the common people and hiking your salary. It’s very funny and sad to notice in the Nation Assembly that even those MPs who never stood and spoke a single word till date were also standing and supporting their pay …

The increase in pay is financed from the increasing taxes every citizens pay to government and the royalties collected by government from the resources which belong to the common citizens. Tax payers willingly pay the taxes knowing that those who receive salaries and parks will acknowledge it and provide better …

This is an alarming trend in a young Democracy or should we call it a Demo-crazy, I always welcomed a transparent Democracy which gives power to the people, instead it looks like someone forgot to change the clause on responsibilities of a Secretary, when Bhutan embraced Democracy. We understand that, …

Dear Sir, Bhutanese citizens staying in Jaigaon have been facing many well documented problems all stemming from the fact that they cannot get adequate housing in Phuentsholing due to the non-availability of apartments and also the high rents. While the people here were hoping that as the demand was so …

Good decision from the cabinet. What i heard was that the project was a threat against national security by selling it to foreigners. Dawa So much for the Education City Act & all the hullabaloo! Alternative: revert back to REC’s model of Education City – with social interest, not commercial …

RTI will automatically generate information, which in turn, will be transformed into knowledge that is useful to the people and the country to create a knowledge society. A knowledge based society is the only secured source of security and sovereignty for Bhutan in this present knowledge-century. This knowledge, developed due …

Policy makers in the government, representatives in the parliament and religious handlers are imposing bans, restrictions and nonsense rules and regulations not based on scientific logic, or for that matter on common sense on people. People pay taxes to pay their salaries and in return expect them to create an …

Good. This government is bring changes according to the ground realities. It should be there till individual level. Sangay Letho This system is nothing new and it is already being prac¬ticed in every government office and organization. Dawa Who is going to verify if progress and outputs shown by the …

At the present economic situation it is indeed wrong to increase the pay and allowances for civil servants and local government leaders. For many years I have been working in the accounts section with lots of strains and I have come to know that human desires can never fulfilled. Though …

Some villages have been electrified recently and they deserve subsidy on electricity and at the same time it would have a far reaching impact in safeguarding our pristine environment.Those industrialists who have been enjoying electricity subsidy should now be prepared to pay normal tariff and such subsidy should be extended …