Saturday, June 21, 2025
  • Contact Us
  • About BBS
  • Privacy & Policy
ENG
DZO
BBSCL Logo
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule
Radio Live
No Result
View All Result
BBSCL logo
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule
No Result
View All Result
BBSCL logo
Radio LIVE

Access to Affordable Land and Housing workshop underway

June 3, 2013
in Uncategorized
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
0
SHARES
1
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Access-to-affordable-land-and-houseA three-day regional workshop on Promoting Access to Affordable Land and Housing is underway in the capital. The participants from South Asia, in next two days, will look into policy challenges in the region while trying to address the issue of house and land in the cities. The workshop is organised jointly by the Works and Human Settlement Ministry and the World Bank.

Affordable housing is an issue affecting almost every city dwellers in South Asia. It is estimated that the region, by 2030, will have over 300 million people moving in to cities where land and housing are already getting scarce.

At the regional workshop on promoting access to affordable housing and land in South Asia, Ming Zhang from the World Bank says governments should come up with schemes that would help low income groups’ access affordable housing.Promoting-Access-to-Affordable-Land-and-Housing

“You don’t have a magic solution. Even in advanced economies, middle and low income cannot afford housing. The only way to get out of it is focusing on the supply-which is getting more lands for building houses and targeting low income groups to have some subsidies to be able to have housing said ” Ming Zhang.

In Bhutan, subsidies like low cost housing is slow and the existing ones do not meet the demand of the civil servants. For 2000 units of such housing in the country, there are about 24,000 civil servants.

“We are looking at low cost technology in order to increase the affordability of housing in the country. This will bring down the cost of construction and also we are looking at indigenous materials in our construction, which should discourage importing the materials- a reason why constructing houses is expensive,” said the National Housing Development Corporation Limited’s Managing Director Ugyen Chewang.

The Corporation has already invested about Nu. 250 in Samdrup Jongkhar, Phuentsholing, Gasa and Lhuentse in constructing low cost housing, some of which are expected to complete in next couple of months. There is also a plan to construct 239 units complex in Thimphu.

Previous Post

900 athletes run Annual Coronation Marathon

Next Post

Failure to meet deadline affects DHPC’s staff

Next Post

Failure to meet deadline affects DHPC’s staff

Temporary relief from roadblock in Gasa

BBS's producer wins best documentary award

Please login to join discussion

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Campaign pledges, experience and the ruling party factor attributed for Karma Lhamo’s win

4 years ago
3
Bhutan offers special tourism package to Japan

Bhutan offers special tourism package to Japan

9 years ago
2

Tiger kills a cow at Korphu Gewog in Trongsa

4 years ago
2

Forest Fire in Thimphu

12 years ago
1

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Accidents (14)
  • Agriculture (435)
  • Announcement (178)
  • Audience Survey Report (1)
  • Business (756)
  • Crime/Legal (368)
  • Culture (47)
  • Development (57)
  • Disaster (57)
  • Economy (288)
  • Education (417)
  • Entertainment (15)
  • Environment (65)
  • Feature (65)
  • Featured (6)
  • Festival (79)
  • GMC (14)
  • Headlines (7)
  • Health (627)
  • Legal (53)
  • Literature (9)
  • Livestock (76)
  • Media (26)
  • Other Stories (5,653)
  • Politics (419)
  • RCSC (1)
  • Recent stories (5)
  • Religion (45)
  • Sci/Tech (711)
  • Social (539)
  • Sports (454)
  • Technology (190)
  • Tourism (22)
  • Uncategorized (13,866)
  • Video (141)
  • Video Story (257)
  • Wildlife (42)

BROWSE BY TOPICS

Tender Announcement Vacancy Announcement

POPULAR NEWS

  • BPC’s investigation rules out transformer short circuit as Damchhu forest fire cause

    Viral video of Bhutanese man assaulted by locals and police in Jaigaon sparks safety concerns

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Gelephu Mindfulness City opens recruitment drive for Bhutanese professionals

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Newspaper accuses DPT candidate of political ploy

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • A centenarian’s recipe to longevity

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 40 companies risk closure over failure to submit financial reports

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
BBSCL

Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) is Bhutan’s primary national broadcaster, delivering diverse news and entertainment in multiple languages, fostering cultural understanding and public knowledge.

Follow us on social media:

Recent News

  • Health ministry launches nationwide awareness on lead poisoning
  • GNH Conference wraps up with ideas rooted in community and care
  • Food accounts for 40.5% of household spending in Bhutan
  • Bhutanese in Middle East report normalcy, Embassy in Kuwait assures safety
  • Organic sales outlet opens in Thimphu

News Category

  • Accidents
  • Agriculture
  • Announcement
  • Audience Survey Report
  • Business
  • Crime/Legal
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Disaster
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Feature
  • Featured
  • Festival
  • GMC
  • Headlines
  • Health
  • Legal
  • Literature
  • Livestock
  • Media
  • Other Stories
  • Politics
  • RCSC
  • Recent stories
  • Religion
  • Sci/Tech
  • Social
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Tourism
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Video Story
  • Wildlife
  • Contact Us
  • About BBS
  • Privacy & Policy

© 2024 BBSCL. All rights reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Education
  • More
    • Announcement
    • Audience Survey Report
    • Programme
    • Radio Dzo-Channel Schedule
    • Radio Mix-Channel Schedule

© 2024 BBSCL. All rights reserved.