Don’t count your chickens
The Bhutanese government expects steady double-digit growth for the next three years—the period the Thinley government will remain in power. The annual budget presented at parliament last week has projected growth based on expanding construction such as hydropower projects. The projection has not taken into consideration the negative impact...
Zabto Lemi
Even after constitutionally guaranteeing that a person gets paid for his work, metal or physical. However, the government attitude has changed little over several decades. The traditional system of citizens contributing free labour for nation’s development, zabto lemi and gongda woola, is in place. It was there. It is...
Happiness Vs salary
The Bhutanese government says, primary objective for it to meet is making citizens happy but individually, all members in the Bhutanese family yarn for money, to which they see strings of happiness. Since a few years, GHN has overshadowed the debates of GDP at least in this tiny kingdom...
Bhutanese king born in Nepal
On Friday, April 30, 2010, two dailies in Kathmandu — Kathmandu Post and Nagarik – leaked out some secrets that I had never known. I think, majority of the Bhutanese population was unaware of this important fact. In end 70s and early 80s, Bhutan had good relationship with Nepal...
Two years on the hot seat
The Bhutanese government, properly called the first elected government of the kingdom, has completed its second year on the hot seat, without any significant progress at hand to boast for. The biggest achievement for it will be this month end when it holds the SAARC summit for the first...
200,000 jobs on cards
The new DPT government, celebrating its super majority in the government and the first elected establishment, even after two years in helm, continues to fool the national populace with assumptive projections. The latest of the fooling tool is that the country will create additional 200,000 jobs. The high hopes...