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Finance Minister pledges to bring changes where needed On March 2, 2023, to bring attention to social protection issues faced by marginalised groups like people with disabilities, youth recovering from addiction, care-givers, and women, BCMD, in partnership with Phensem, RENEW, and Bhutan Canada Foundation, is organising an awareness campaign called #PeopleCenteredPolicy. …

Almost all the schools in the country are losing experienced teachers. From 1 January to 17 February 2023 around 243 teachers have resigned and 104 teachers have taken Extraordinary Leave (EOL). The highest numbers of teachers leaving are from the schools in Thimphu Thromde, so far. It has been learnt …

The Indian Rupee (INR) has been depreciating against US Dollars (USD) and with Bhutanese Ngultrum (Nu) pegged with INR, the Nu has been depreciating too. 1 USD is equal to Nu. 82.50 currently. This will impact the country’s economy in terms of loan repayment, foreign reserves and inflation.  Bhutanese Ngultrum …

Labour exploitation is quite rampant in Bhutan and most of it is in terms of unpaid work wages. Most labour exploitation happens in the private sector, with employees not being paid on time or not being paid at all for their services. Sangay, who worked at a private company was …

As per the GovTech Agency, the government is closely working with both the Governments of Bangladesh and India to realize the establishment of Third International Internet Gateway. According to the Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering, on Thursday  Lyonchhen met with the Foreign Secretary of India, and he have conveyed …

The Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT) has collected the nationwide biometric of 544,773 individuals as of December end 2022. The department has completed 76.47 percent of the project. Digital wallet testing has been completed within DHI. Biometric Data collection for Thimphu Thromde was officially closed by the end of …

The Bhutan Living Standard Survey and the Poverty Analysis Rate 2022 carried out by National Statistics Bureau (NSB) found that the report also finds that a person in the top 20 percent of the country’s population (37.3 percent) consumes four times as much as someone in the poorest 20 percent …

The country is facing a triple burden with over a fifth of children under five stunted, a high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies reflected in high rates of anemia, and outbreaks of Vitamin B deficiency, and a rapid increase in overweight and obesity cases. According to Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) …

Globally, the world’s biggest economies are already showing signs of recession.According to International Monetary Fund, the global economy’s growth is forecast to slow from 3.2 % in 2022 to 2.7% in 2023. Bhutan’s economy declined due to the pandemic with service sectors especially the tourism sector being highly affected. The …

The villagers in Jurmed and Kengkhar gewogs in Mongar have been facing acute water shortage for many years. There is no steady source of water supply to the gewogs, and so the villagers have to resort to using water pumps to draw in the water, which is not enough for …