Monthly Archives: December, 0

Farmers in the country have been affected by the lack of proper storage and access to markets. Reports of their hard work rotting in the fields will often dominate social media and mainstream media. But this will no longer be the case for farmers in Tsirang. The district administration opened a sales outlet and cold storage facility in Damphu town last month. The facility is outsourced to a youth group in the district.

The tour operators in the country have mixed feelings about the new tourism policy. While they all agree that the policy will benefit the country in the long run, they fear the price they pay will equally be high. In the new tourism policy with an increased Sustainable Development Fee of 200 USD per person, tourists will no longer have to necessarily route through tour operators.

Local Government members of Nubi Gewog in Trongsa are unhappy about not getting their daily subsistence and travel allowances or the TA/DA while making official trips to the district headquarters.

Punakha has been seeing an increasing number of domestic violence cases over the years. And apart from the horrifying experience, domestic violence survivors in...

The Haa Dzongkhag Tshogdu (DT) rejected the proposal of making a uniform wage for daily labour, and religious services in the district. It was proposed by Bji Gewog in the recent DT. However, Bji Gewog will implement the proposal in the gewog for now and if it is successful, the gewog plans to bring up the proposal in the next DT.

The rising cost of construction materials is taking a toll on the construction sector in the country. This has come when the sector is trying to recover from the impact of the COVID pandemic. The sector came to a standstill when the country imposed lockdowns to fight the spread of the pandemic in the last two years.

The Nubri Capital case is now in the Supreme Court. The Office of the Attorney General and the Anti-Corruption Commission appealed to the apex court yesterday. The High Court earlier acquitted the former Executive Director and two General Managers of the RICBL accused of irrational investment in Nubri Capital, a fund management company which the OAG said was a failure to declare a conflict of interest, abuse of function, and forgery. 

The people of Chhoekhor_Tang questioned the Prime Minister and Chhoekhor_Tang’s Member of Parliament (MP) Dawa regarding the unfulfilled pledges made during the Chhoekhor_Tang bye-election in 2020. People are especially keen on the pledges concerning the construction of a motorable bridge towards Thowadrak and a mobile network tower for highlanders in Chhoekhor Toed.

Damphu town’s parking system was a topic of discussion yet again at the recent Dzongkhag Tshogdu in Tsirang. The DT endorsed the “30-minute parking system” for the town last year, allowing people to park their cars for a maximum of only 30 minutes. This time, the members deliberated on doing away with it and introducing a parking fee collection system instead.

The residents of Yuwakha in Barp Gewog in Punakha are tired of travelling on the road riddled with potholes every day. They want the farm road between the Punakha highway and Chhimi Lhakhang to be blacktopped.