| English | Dzongkha | Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
In what is a piece of good news for public servants and government budgetary agencies, the Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) and Travel Allowance (TA) for the in-country travel and training will be normalized from January. It is in accordance with the Pay Revision Act, 2019.
For the people of Wangdue Phodrang, it is the peak season for their annual ritual and sporting activities. However, with closed doors, a silent atmosphere, no crowd, and long away from preparations, villages are dead silent. Most events have been either postponed or suspended amid the pandemic.
Completing a weeklong home-quarantine, Lhuentse Dzongkhag COVID-19 Taskforce sent home 55 people who were in the district before the lockdown.
Patients with chronic medical conditions and requiring medicine refill will be able to do so by dropping their prescription at a designated shop in one’s respective zone.
Taking into account the mental trauma the coronavirus could pose, the Education Ministry is closely monitoring the students who tested positive. As per the ministry’s Sherig Counseling Services, all of them are doing fine, as of now.
In four days of the mass screening in Thimphu, the Royal Centre for Disease Control (RCDC) collected close to 9,000 samples. The centre has tested around 80 per cent of the samples so far.
Following the requirement of the COVID-19 negative result for outbound travellers, the health ministry established a testing station for the residents of Thimphu at the Changlimithang parking space, yesterday. It operates from 9 to 10:30 AM.
Lack of access to basic amenities such as roads, electricity, and safe drinking water among others used to be daily hardships for the people of Langdhorbi village under Bardo Gewog in Zhemgang, some two years ago. But today, the village which had the highest poverty incidence is no longer the same.
Mandarin exporters and farmers alike in Nganglam of Pema Gatshel were apprehensive of the business when the government announced the second nationwide lockdown. But with relevant agencies up-to their best to keep the business running, they are all smiles.
About one and a half truckloads of ground apples are getting ready for harvest under Goenshari Gewog in Punakha. However, with markets closed amidst the pandemic, Othbar Mountain Horticulture Project, which initiated the commercial production, is worried.