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Layaps complain environment survey delaying road

The practise of hoarding in Laya is expected to end as a road till Trongshu drak, a three-hour walk from the gewog, is expected to be completed soon. But Gup Kinley Dorji over the phone from Laya said that  an  environmental survey of the road was delaying its completion. Although …

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Crematorium at altitude of 4,096 m needs water

Soe, one of the remotest communities under Thimphu dzongkhag, has water facility till its doorsteps but the crematorium in their locality lacks that facility. Though money was allotted for the project under the 10th Plan, people here, mostly yak headers, are worried that harsh weather, inaccessibility, and thick snow would …

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