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Creatures of habit: Bringing back the familiar

| Ugyen Wangmo - Thimphu

The said it all but the whole nation is still poring over the primary election

outcome looking for a deeper meaning.

But the political analyst, ex-plains the result putting to rest the ‘why and how’ about the result.

According to the findings of the political analyst, Druk Phunen-sum Tshogpa’s (DPT) success in garnering the highest vote is at-tributed to four possible aspects.

Firstly, it is the track record of DPT for having fulfilled 150 pledges out of 153 promises which was made to the people in 2008.

Secondly, the leadership of DPT was proven and tested. It was found that people gave a lot of at-tention and thought on the need of good leader in a nation. People wanted a leader who can espouse the country’s cause international-ly, and secure the nations security and sovereignty poised as Bhutan is precariously between two gigan-tic neighbors.

According to the analysis, it is no small business to be left in the hands of inexperienced leaders for a tiny country like Bhutan as its sovereign independence will al-ways be its biggest concern.

Most electorate thought about is and felt the country cannot be governed by an unknown quan-tity.

The third reason for DPT’s win was analyzed to be their huge presence in the rural areas, which was a well known and well ac-cepted brand.

As for the fourth reason, DPT had a good team and most im-portantly, their manifesto was far ahead of the others in terms of depth, vision and implementation plan, to name just a few.

Now, coming to the win by

May 31: Voters queued up to bring back the parties they are most familiar with at Changbangdu polling station, Thimphu


BhuTANeSe elecTorATe decided to be the creatures of habit by

pushing the button for the two old parties they are only familiar with, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Yesterday, election commis-sion of Bhutan (ecB) officially declared DPT who received the highest vote of 93,949 followed by PDP with 68,650 as the two winning party who will go into the general round of election.

Sonam Wangchuk, 61 year

old farmer from Pemagatshel said that PDP and DPT are the only two parties that he knows of. even if he had wanted a change in leadership he couldn’t bring himself to vote for the new entrants, because he didn’t know them at all to be able to believe in them.

he said, “Voting for either Nyamrup or chirwang would be like walking off a cliff blind-folded,” so “I chose to remain mired in misery than to head toward an unknown.”

Tandin Wangmo, 42, gov-ernment servant said, “Bhuta-nese people don’t want change

but only want to live on with the same experience that they know very well.”

She pointed out that when Bhutan transitioned from monarchy to democracy, Bhutanese whined over the change.

Now, people have grown very comfortable and used to the former government that they rejected the ‘change’ that might have done them well.

She however would have wanted a new government, but now with the old parties back she will have to accept the de-feat that the “so called change

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DPT SUPPORTERS VOICE : 15 elected DPT members to not assume their role as opposition

CLARIFICATION WANTED : 15 points identified in the executive meeting needs clarification

Druk Phuensum TshogPa (DPT), the new opposition party was importuned by

the supporters to not assume the role of opposition unless the 15 lists of issues were explained.

after a daylong meeting and hearing from the supporters, DPT as the wish of their supporter will not assume the role of opposition unless the 15 points are clarified.

The 15 points of issue which was identified during the two days ex-ecutive meeting held by the party was decided to be submitted to his majesty the king after an emotional discussion between DPT supporters and members.

The party said that PDP has al-ways alleged DPT of being corrupt whereby all of the corruption re-lated cases were supposed to have existed before the DPT government was formed.

It was pointed out that around the election period many unlawful practices and bribery cases of PDP were reported yet no serious action were taken against it, and it is one of the clarifications that DPT will seek.

among the 15 points drawn up, it also included coalition of par-ties, media involvement, involve-ment of ngos, and the politiciza-tion of Local government officials. The party will also bring up the non-participation of the PDP’s khamaed-Lunana candidate in the public debate against which eCB did not take any action though it was the violation of the eCB rule.

namgye Penjore, DPT candidate from Punakha said that the Inter-im government’s role was to ensure free and fair elections however it violated the rule when one of the members Dasho karma ura openly talked on issues in media which was later proven wrong.

The party said that they are con-cerned about the politicization of the army and also about ballot rig-ging. The points also include defa-mation and misuse of apolitical institutions. DPT added that PDP arranged free transportation for voters as well.

one of the party supporters said that it is not about losing or winning but it is about the corrupt practices that had taken form through the process of political campaigning,

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| Usha Drukpa & Karma Dema

nomInaTIon of the prime minister through ballot votes within the winning

party is the first change the nation saw from the newly elected govern-ment, Peoples Democratic Party-the change the nation voted for.

The president of Peoples Demo-

ballot vote of the Prime Minister

The first change:

| Dechen Dolkar, Thimphu

PeoPLe’s DemoCraTIC ParTy (PDP) the newly elected government which

is mandated by the nation for change will take ahead some of their pledges after taking over the government and fulfil it within the first hundred days.

as already promised during the political campaign they will accomplish some of the pledges which are seen to be important and likewise people also expects the “PDP pledges in the first 100 days in office” as spelled out in the manifesto to be accom-plished.

Damchoe Dorji, the elected national assembly member from goenkhatoe-Laya Con-stituency, gasa assured that the party will make sure the nation sees all the changes they had promised for in the first hundred days as per their manifesto.

under the PDP government, Bhutanese will firstly benefit from meetings with the prime minister through meet-the-Peo-ple program. It is a program

where the prime minister will not take the weekends off but will dedicate the two weekend days to meeting people and youths.

Besides all other cabinet min-isters will also be available in their office on saturdays where any citizen can walk in to meet the ministers without appoint-ment.

social media Wing platforms like Facebook and Twitter will take form to connect with the government so Bhutanese from all walks of life can raise issues of concern and share ideas.

“With the ever increasing liv-ing expenses, I am only looking forward for the revision of pay and allowance PDP has prom-ised,” said Tashi Dawa, 41 year old civil servant.

he added that he is also eager about the 20 percent housing allowance the civil servants will be entitled for. and he hopes that the revision of tenancy act promised will help curtail the house rents which had been es-calating preposterously over the years, especially in Thimphu.

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The said it all but the whole nation is still poring over the primary election

outcome looking for a deeper meaning.

But the political analyst, ex-plains the result putting to rest the ‘why and how’ about the result.

According to the findings of the political analyst, Druk Phunen-sum Tshogpa’s (DPT) success in garnering the highest vote is at-tributed to four possible aspects.

Firstly, it is the track record of DPT for having fulfilled 150 pledges out of 153 promises which was made to the people in 2008.

Secondly, the leadership of DPT was proven and tested. It was found that people gave a lot of at-tention and thought on the need of good leader in a nation. People wanted a leader who can espouse the country’s cause international-ly, and secure the nations security and sovereignty poised as Bhutan is precariously between two gigan-tic neighbors.

According to the analysis, it is no small business to be left in the hands of inexperienced leaders for a tiny country like Bhutan as its sovereign independence will al-ways be its biggest concern.

Most electorate thought about is and felt the country cannot be governed by an unknown quan-tity.

The third reason for DPT’s win was analyzed to be their huge presence in the rural areas, which was a well known and well ac-cepted brand.

As for the fourth reason, DPT had a good team and most im-portantly, their manifesto was far ahead of the others in terms of depth, vision and implementation plan, to name just a few.

Now, coming to the win by

May 31: Voters queued up to bring back the parties they are most familiar with at Changbangdu polling station, Thimphu


BhuTANeSe elecTorATe decided to be the creatures of habit by

pushing the button for the two old parties they are only familiar with, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Yesterday, election commis-sion of Bhutan (ecB) officially declared DPT who received the highest vote of 93,949 followed by PDP with 68,650 as the two winning party who will go into the general round of election.

Sonam Wangchuk, 61 year

old farmer from Pemagatshel said that PDP and DPT are the only two parties that he knows of. even if he had wanted a change in leadership he couldn’t bring himself to vote for the new entrants, because he didn’t know them at all to be able to believe in them.

he said, “Voting for either Nyamrup or chirwang would be like walking off a cliff blind-folded,” so “I chose to remain mired in misery than to head toward an unknown.”

Tandin Wangmo, 42, gov-ernment servant said, “Bhuta-nese people don’t want change

but only want to live on with the same experience that they know very well.”

She pointed out that when Bhutan transitioned from monarchy to democracy, Bhutanese whined over the change.

Now, people have grown very comfortable and used to the former government that they rejected the ‘change’ that might have done them well.

She however would have wanted a new government, but now with the old parties back she will have to accept the de-feat that the “so called change

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SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013 | 3THE JOURNALIST2 | SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013

NATIONTHE JOURNALIST

‘ElEction 2013’ will go down in the history and always remain to stay as an action packed and controversial affair for all times

to come.all through the year the nation had been consumed

in politics up until now, and even after the formal conclusion of the general election the preoccupation with politics has not dissipated just yet.

allegations and counter allegations, which was the central make-up of the election season still persists to linger on.

People were of believe that the poll day will put an end to the entire election hullabaloo, but the recent developments however indicates otherwise.

gauging the Bhutanese opinion is certainly difficult, and yet there seems to be a significant outrage and dismay at the election outcome, especially for the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa supporters.

With the official announcement of the election result, it is to believe that the nation has voted resoundingly for change but that is not the view DPT supporters agree to go with.

accusation of substantial unlawful practices and electoral impropriety has been pointed out by DPT, which is now the opposition party, during their most recent convention with the party supporters.

similarly, at the meeting the supporters expressed their objection against the recent electoral process and brought to notice the massive frauds which had found its way to mar the significance of a fair and equal election.

Peoples Democratic Party on one hand already has enough on their table to prepare themselves to take over as the new government and make sure that they deliver the promises the nation had voted for.

on the other hand, the people have had enough of politics and want to forget all about it and dearly want to get back on with their normal life.

and on the positive side, some people are of view that DPT has not lost altogether but is rather a hope to ensure that democracy is strongly consolidated. It was also pointed out that it is not a landslide loss, 15 experienced members for opposition will but only do good for the country.

But still nation continues to suffer from the post election trouble. It is time for the people to realise that the election is over and despite ones passionate beliefs, the country is still functioning. There will be another election for the people to make the choice count. so it’s time for the people to bring back the atmosphere which the nation seems to have forgotten momentarily, with the coming of election.

The mood where people meet, laugh and talk about anything but politics, for politics will see no end.

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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Phuentsholing Thromde(PT) has finished and scheduled the final Public Consultations of the Draft Plotting Plan for the various locations under the Dhamdara LAP and the Kabraytar LAP as specified below:-

(A) Kabraytar LAP on 25th July, 2013 during Office Working Hours.

(i). Lower Terrace and Lt. Dasho Rimpoche Residence area;

(ii). AWP MD’s Residence area;

(iii).Kabraytar Core area;

(iv). Middle Terrace area;

(v). Upper Terrace and

(vi) Bogateybari area.

The plotting include revisions of the previously discussed areas like S1. No. i,ii, iv, vi etc.

(B) Dhamdara 1, LAP on 26th July, 2013 during Office Working Hours.

(i). Dhamdara Swimming Pool area,

(ii). Dhamdara Talman Chhetri area,

(iii). Pipaldhara area and

(iv). Rakhaldhara area.

The discussions of the plotting of the immediate areas behind/above Ashi Savitri Dorji’s Residence and the slopes of Lower Dhamdara above the Amo Chhu Bank are presently left out due to some disputes and the on-going surveying of the P/ling-Samtse Highway respectively.

Therefore, all the concerned Plot Owners, who hasn’t yet participated in the meetings held so far or didn’t sign the agreement/acceptance of the new plotting of the plots within the above specified locations are requested to attend the Conference Hall of the Main Office of PT, Pelkhil Lam on the above specified days. If any further clarifications or information is required, please contact the Principal Urban Planner, Urban Planning Division, PT or refer the PT website @ www.pcc.bt.

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which they said has made them distressful, sad and concerned. They shared that whoever comes to power they are the people of Bhutan and it would not be of any problem but the things really needs to be sorted if it is the case of corruption in the best in-terest of the future of the country.

one of the supporters from Paro expressed, “I fail to understand as to whom DPT was contest-ing the election against, with king, with India or with PDP?”

similarly a party sup-porter from Trashigang said that, PDP candidate norbu Wangchuk from kanglung-samkhar-ud-zorong constituency had told that DCT, DnT and PDP are one and the same party whereby he ex-pressed that it is the viola-tion of rules of the eCB. he implied that against it no action had been taken.

according to another supporter, during the po-litical campaign one of the PDP candidates from Trongsa had said to the people that “his majesty has full support for PDP” and this according to him is an indication that PDP have misused the name of king to influence people for vote.

similarly another DPT supporter said that in monger there was seven bribery cases pertaining to PDP but only three cases had been verified by the eCB while the other four cases was left out.

he also added that people received calls from anonymous numbers in-forming them that the call is being made from

the gyalpoi Zimpon’s of-fice and were given in-structions to vote for PDP.

a concerned supporter said that the future of the country’s democracy will be in danger if the incidence of bribery is not taken seriously and will risk handing over the de-mocracy in the hands of powerful individuals.

most supporters gath-ered stated that unless the 15 points are clari-fied by the eCB and until the comments from his majesty the king is heard they will not allow DPT to function as the opposition adding that many allega-tions has been made by PDP to their party.

The DPT president after the election on his way to Thimphu from Pamagat-shel met many people who were disheartened but all he could offer was just to console them.

according to the party president, the people were not saddened because DPT lost but they were upset because general election didn’t go smoothly, how-ever all the people that he met with still believed in the result.

The party president also said that during the DPT government they strengthened the Indo-Bhutan relationship how-ever during the election campaigning the foreign relation was brought into politics undermining the very unique relationship that existed between Bhu-tan and India from the past.

he also shared his con-cern as to whether the re-lationship is going to re-main the same as before. all in all he mentioned

that Bhutan is a small country and it is very im-portant to keep relation with foreign countries.

The president also pointed that it is the na-ture of the democracy that one will win and one to lose and above all it is not that only one party should win instead the losing party should sup-port the winning party to run the government well and he will support the functioning of the gov-ernment as a opposition leader.

he also added that most of the people are corrupted so can’t trust them adding that if peo-ple need trust one should not involve in corruption.

however considering the voice of the people he said “It’s indeed in your hands to decide whether we assume the role of the opposition or not,” party president Jigme y Thinley said to the supporters and members.

and finally after the one day long meeting and hearing from the support-ers the DPT’s President Jigme y Thinley said to the supporter that as the wish of their supporter they will not assume the role of opposition unless the 15 points are clari-fied.

Thus the DrukPhuen-sumTshogpa and the sup-porters unanimously de-cided to submit a petition letter with their 15 points to his majesty the king.

The party along with 20 people comprising of party candidates, elderly people, women and youth will approach his majesty for the appeal.

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next month,” said Tsher-ing Wangmo, which ac-cording to her was rather controversial and inconve-nient. But now, to do away with the Pedestrian Day rule is one of the priority pledges she is expectant that things will get back to normal.

Few other changes that are to be seen shortly are the annual grant of ngul-trum two million for every gewog centres. The gewog centres will have full dis-cretion to use the grant for developmental proj-ects or any other related expenses. This grant will go a long way in meet-ing urgent local needs. It can also be used as relief in times of disasters. The grant will also give finan-cial flexibility to gewogs which will go a long way in helping them function independently.

The PDP, in its manifes-to states, “We will extend maternity leave for new mothers”. In addition to the existing leave of three months, they will intro-duce an additional nine months of flexi time for mothers where the work load for them would be halved. This will ensure that the child gets good care for at least a year af-ter birth.

most exciting, for the university graduates is that PDP will do away with preliminary exams (Pe) before the Civil ser-vice Board exams for entry to the civil service.

“after the election re-sults were announced I had stopped preparing for my Pe but later learnt that I will still have to go through with it,” said Dechen Wangmo, a grad-uate from India. But she is happy that at least her sister who is due to gradu-ate the following year will not have to go through with it.

What’s more is that she is not worried about her employment since PDP government has guaran-teed full employment for youths, she said. PDP will initiate a youth employ-ment policy to ensure that all young people in the country get a job if they choose to have one.

“I was due to go for my masters this fall but couldn’t go since I was told by the Banks that there is

no education loan ser-vice,” said Pema Tenzin, a private employee. he said that he was disappointed since education loan was what he had relied upon for advancing his educa-tion.

But learning about sub-sidized loan schemes for students to pursue higher studies and the promise to offer student discounts for public transport including air travel has made him hopeful that he might be able to realise his dream.

another positive change to be expected is the dis-continuation of taxes for small and rural busi-nesses. The new govern-ment will start the ground work to build homes for the elderly, near monas-teries around the country and give an allowance for senior citizens above 70 years of age.

They will also establish three endowment funds, art and culture endow-ment, education endow-ment and research en-dowment.

national Film Policy will also be drafted besides initiating rural posting al-lowance for civil servants, particularly teachers, post-ed in rural areas.

The coming in of new government will be a boon to the senior citizens, not only will they enjoy safe shelter they will also be privileged for designat-ed seats in public trans-port besides the pregnant women, mothers with tod-dlers and people with spe-cial needs.

The poor will not be left behind anymore since the new government has promised to initiate a na-tionwide poverty census to identify the poor people living under the poverty line in the country. They will then initiate a special poverty alleviation pro-gram to help all the iden-tified poor in the country.

In addition the nutrition level of food given to stu-dents in boarding schools will also be reviewed and appropriately improved to meet the required nutri-tion levels.

The recent increase in electricity tariff will be hard on people especially during winter times, so the PDP’s promise to review the present proposal to in-crease electricity tariff in the country is what most people are looking forward

for, said sonam Choden, a private employee. and what’s more is that they will ensure that the tariff is not increased and try to give free electricity to rural households.

The country has seen increasing number of tax-is in the recent years not to mention the government servants offering the taxi service at discounted rate and affecting the business. But it will now be a prob-lem of past as PDP studies

the possibilities of intro-ducing a cap on taxi num-bers in the country.

They will introduce business licenses to run taxi services in the coun-try which will be made a prerequisite to get into the business.

not to forget, PDP in its ‘within 100 days pledge’ states, “we will lift the ve-hicle import ban for rural businesses and farmers to let them buy utility vehi-cles to facilitate rural de-

velopment”. and also start negotiating with the rele-vant state governments of India to restart the Bhutan lottery business as an im-mediate plan to address the rupee issue.

PDP has promised to offer the change the na-tion had desired for. now having mandated PDP the change, the nation look ahead to to see it and re-alize it.

another notable change Bhutan will see within the 100 days under PDP gov-ernment is the revision the national minimum Wage rate and revised pension package for the armed forces and make it equal to that of civil servants.

In addition the much debated the right to In-formation (rTI) Bill will be tabled thereby making the government more ac-countable and transpar-ent.

“I am happy there will be ‘no’ pedestrian day

Within 100 daysChanges in Bhutan under PDP Government:

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Voters braves the bad weather| Pema Denkar -May 31, Phuentsholing

Downpours and exceedingly sloppy and

muddy ground didn’t stop hundred of senior citizens to come out in force to vote.

The weather was defi-nitely harsh for those who had to walk, but there was a sea of smiles for having braved the bad weather.

Sheltered under the umbrella which couldn’t keep the hard rain out, drenched Asma, a 73 year old from Gumaungni village under Phuentsholing Dungkhag had walked almost three hours to reach her polling sta-tion at Ahley gewog center.

Wet and cold, she waited in queue for

her turn to vote for the party of her choice.

“I am determined to vote, don’t care about getting wet because to vote is a very important affair in my life,” she said.

She told The Journalist that she had walked all the way with the opti-mism that her effort will be counted in choosing for the right party.

“I have been walking since my childhood till now,” she said, adding that she now hopes that the new government would bring in some development to her vil-lage and also solve her woes of having to walk for her entire life.

But sadly, “my hus-band could not come to vote because he is sick and could not walk.” She said.

According to her there

is no school and road connectivity in her vil-lage. Students have to walk for five hours every day from home to the nearest school at Ahley.

likewise, 70 year old Saverti who had come to vote at Toribari poll-ing station walked back home with satisfied smile after casting her vote.

She said that she have casted her vote to the party of her choice and is hopeful that the party serves the country well.

“I am old but still I voted thinking that I can play a part in giv-ing my grandchildren a country with good leader,” she said.

Besides it is her civic duty as a citizen to take an active role.

While, hundreds of voters walked the Pasakha-Phuentsholing highway bracing the

heavy rainfall with positive spirits which remained throughout, there were few who wished for some trans-portation arrangements.

Budi Maya, 82-year-old is one of them, who got a lift from one of the voters to reach her reg-istered polling station. From Malbasi village in Pasakha, she is the only member from her family who had come to vote for the election.

“I am happy and satisfied that I made it because I care about the future of Bhutan and know that my vote will count,” she said.

Most of the voters in Phuentsholing the Journalist talked to, had considered the primary round of election as an important occasion which could not be ig-nored for an unimport-

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), according to the analysis, they won be-cause of their Brand.

Besides they were also successful in gathering support from the armed forces.

In addition they were able to gain support from cab drivers with their promise to stop the civil servants from operating taxis.

And PDP was also suc-cessful in bringing the youths on board with them because their mani-festo addressed the con-cerns and issues of youth. For example, they will initiate unemployment allowance.

And finally, PDP had the best candidates repre-senting the constituencies from the south.

The analysis released also explained why Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa( DNT) and Druk chirwang Tshogpa (DcT) lost the battle.

It was found that DNT lost mainly because the Bhutanese society is just not ready to ac-cept a woman leader. Besides, the brand was new, known fairly well in the urban areas but not much in the rural areas.

In addition, DNT didn’t have clear cut plan as to how to take the country forward but only harped about “peoples’ govern-ment”, it said.

In the case of DcT, the loss was expected said the analysis. DcT did not exist as a party, it was driven by one person and all they did was try and sell that one person throughout the country.

And also it was youth driven, another reason for its defeat.

“People are not averse to change; they looked for a better alternative and there not any-be it interms of people or ideas,” said the political analyst.


is nowhere in sight and is unlikely for the next five years.”

Sonam choden, 29 year old corporate em-ployee said that change in leader will bring in new rules and ideas. And it will in turn demand ex-tra work and energy so as to be able to get adapted with the change.

“Subsequently it is always easier to say no to a possible new leader and stick with what one is already familiar with and avoid the trouble,” she said.

But it is not to say that she is happy with the for-mer government. There are numerous complaints against their perfor-mance and it will always haunt her. But she will push it back in her mind and learn to live with it

just so that she doesn’t have to go through the ordeal of being surprised by the conduct of a new leader.

Ngawang Dorji, 37 year old private em-ployee strongly rejects change in leadership since, “change will only interfere with the proper functioning of what has already been put in place,” he said.

According to him it is better to keep the Devil one knows than the god one is not familiar with.

change in leadership means changing the country and surprising the people with new sys-tems and experience.

Bhutanese people have become automatic to the current systems and situations, and are just not ready to be jolted by


ant reason such as ‘bad weather’.

Among the senior citizens were also the youths who didn’t mind the rain to feel the expe-rience of being counted and heard.

Anjusubba, a 19 year old who casted her first ballot said, “I feel im-portant and proud,” and was glad that she was of age to be a part of such an important decision.

likewise, other youths, The Journalist talked to said that they were happy and eager to take part in choosing the right party for the benefit of the country and the people.

Ahley polling station saw a very good voter turnout but the polling station at Toribari how-ever saw fewer voters, comparatively.

May 31: 82-year-old Budi maya who braved the heavy downpour to cast her ballot

the effect of change, be it good or bad.

Besides whom better to entrust the country with, than the leaders who al-ready has experience and knows what to make of the country.

Similary, Tashi Zang-mo, a student said that a change in leadership will bring upon the country laws and systems which are unfamiliar. And that she said will distract the people and be confusing in many uncomfortable ways.

So in that regard she is happy that the former two parties are back in the picture.

“I am now waiting on who will be the ruling government to see if Bhu-tanese people really are the creatures of habit,” she says.

With deepest respect, the management of

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join all the citizens in wishingYour Majesty

a very wonderful Birthday.Our prayers for

Your Majesty’s good health, long life and happiness.

Ugyen Phendeyling Resort & Meditation CenterSatsham Chorten, Paro, Bhutan

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“This is what the people are saying about the primary election result”

Any party that can give me 5 acres of govern-ment land & transfer it to my name ASAP gets my vote, so my first option is DPT, but if other party give me good offer” I am ready to listen.

I wanted at least one new political party to win but it is the same old two political parties again. If people of Bhutan do not give oppor-tunity for new political parties to govern our country it would be a dynasty for the old same political party.

It will be all same as before unless they bring new changes and development in the coun-try. They give full support only to the civil servants despite them having the privileges of allowance and other remuneration. But we, private employee are ignored and left behind. I want the government who can support the private employee.

I don’t find any other party more capable then DPT and the people have chosen the right party.

I was expecting PDP to lead the election but however I am happy with the result.”“Although away from home, I keep myself up-dated with everything happening in my coun-try through social media and other sources. And I was eagerly waiting for the result to be updated on the social media.

I am very happy to know that DPT won the primary election. And for me both the leading parties are very good.

I am happy that the former party won the vote. I will feel secure only if the country is ruled by an experienced party. The former government have left unachieved work so they need to come back to continue with what they have started.

Sad! A new government should have come in. Bhutanese people don’t trust female leader going by the Nc result and primary result. If DNT had a prominent figure or a male leader then they might have had a chance. There are chances that even in the next election the two old parties will still win.The saddest part is despite the civil servants supporting for DNT they still voted for DPT in the end according to the postal ballot. Bhuta-nese don’t want change they want to stick to their old thing that they are used to.

I was sure that PDP and DPT will be leading the election.I watch television every time and I found the two leading parties more capable then the other two.” While her 69-year-old husband interrupts the conversation and said, “I was expecting Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa to be one of the leading parties.”Then the two goes on debating over the result both trying to convince each other over their view.

I was pretty sure that the DPT will be leading the election from the start. I don’t mean the other parties are not worth but DPT and PDP are much better.

I am really overwhelmed with the result and satisfied indeed. The result is because of the people who have voted and the people have decided for the right party. even though there had been two new political parties not one of them could make it to the general round of election. It will discourage the new parties from coming up in the future.

Deki Dema, 25, private employee, radhi-sakten constituency

chuki 29, South-Thimphu constituency

Buddha Gurung, 33, Tourist Guide, Gelephu Khamad constituency

Tshering lhamo, corporate employee in Phuentsholing, chhoeKhor-

TANG constituency.

Phuba Dorji, a Bhutanese citizen working in united States from

KABISA-TAloG constituency.

Tsheringmo, lhuentse

Yonten Phuntsho, 30, Fresh Graduate, Pemagatshel Khar Yurong constituency

Tashi Wangmo, civil Servant, Thimphu.

Aum Wangmo, 65-year-old resident of Phuentsholing.

Tashi lhamo, lAMGoNG-WANGchANG constituency in Paro

Phurba Tenzin 24, corporate employee, wamrong constitiuency

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Voters braves the bad weather| Pema Denkar -May 31, Phuentsholing

Downpours and exceedingly sloppy and

muddy ground didn’t stop hundred of senior citizens to come out in force to vote.

The weather was defi-nitely harsh for those who had to walk, but there was a sea of smiles for having braved the bad weather.

Sheltered under the umbrella which couldn’t keep the hard rain out, drenched Asma, a 73 year old from Gumaungni village under Phuentsholing Dungkhag had walked almost three hours to reach her polling sta-tion at Ahley gewog center.

Wet and cold, she waited in queue for

her turn to vote for the party of her choice.

“I am determined to vote, don’t care about getting wet because to vote is a very important affair in my life,” she said.

She told The Journalist that she had walked all the way with the opti-mism that her effort will be counted in choosing for the right party.

“I have been walking since my childhood till now,” she said, adding that she now hopes that the new government would bring in some development to her vil-lage and also solve her woes of having to walk for her entire life.

But sadly, “my hus-band could not come to vote because he is sick and could not walk.” She said.

According to her there

is no school and road connectivity in her vil-lage. Students have to walk for five hours every day from home to the nearest school at Ahley.

likewise, 70 year old Saverti who had come to vote at Toribari poll-ing station walked back home with satisfied smile after casting her vote.

She said that she have casted her vote to the party of her choice and is hopeful that the party serves the country well.

“I am old but still I voted thinking that I can play a part in giv-ing my grandchildren a country with good leader,” she said.

Besides it is her civic duty as a citizen to take an active role.

While, hundreds of voters walked the Pasakha-Phuentsholing highway bracing the

heavy rainfall with positive spirits which remained throughout, there were few who wished for some trans-portation arrangements.

Budi Maya, 82-year-old is one of them, who got a lift from one of the voters to reach her reg-istered polling station. From Malbasi village in Pasakha, she is the only member from her family who had come to vote for the election.

“I am happy and satisfied that I made it because I care about the future of Bhutan and know that my vote will count,” she said.

Most of the voters in Phuentsholing the Journalist talked to, had considered the primary round of election as an important occasion which could not be ig-nored for an unimport-

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), according to the analysis, they won be-cause of their Brand.

Besides they were also successful in gathering support from the armed forces.

In addition they were able to gain support from cab drivers with their promise to stop the civil servants from operating taxis.

And PDP was also suc-cessful in bringing the youths on board with them because their mani-festo addressed the con-cerns and issues of youth. For example, they will initiate unemployment allowance.

And finally, PDP had the best candidates repre-senting the constituencies from the south.

The analysis released also explained why Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa( DNT) and Druk chirwang Tshogpa (DcT) lost the battle.

It was found that DNT lost mainly because the Bhutanese society is just not ready to ac-cept a woman leader. Besides, the brand was new, known fairly well in the urban areas but not much in the rural areas.

In addition, DNT didn’t have clear cut plan as to how to take the country forward but only harped about “peoples’ govern-ment”, it said.

In the case of DcT, the loss was expected said the analysis. DcT did not exist as a party, it was driven by one person and all they did was try and sell that one person throughout the country.

And also it was youth driven, another reason for its defeat.

“People are not averse to change; they looked for a better alternative and there not any-be it interms of people or ideas,” said the political analyst.


is nowhere in sight and is unlikely for the next five years.”

Sonam choden, 29 year old corporate em-ployee said that change in leader will bring in new rules and ideas. And it will in turn demand ex-tra work and energy so as to be able to get adapted with the change.

“Subsequently it is always easier to say no to a possible new leader and stick with what one is already familiar with and avoid the trouble,” she said.

But it is not to say that she is happy with the for-mer government. There are numerous complaints against their perfor-mance and it will always haunt her. But she will push it back in her mind and learn to live with it

just so that she doesn’t have to go through the ordeal of being surprised by the conduct of a new leader.

Ngawang Dorji, 37 year old private em-ployee strongly rejects change in leadership since, “change will only interfere with the proper functioning of what has already been put in place,” he said.

According to him it is better to keep the Devil one knows than the god one is not familiar with.

change in leadership means changing the country and surprising the people with new sys-tems and experience.

Bhutanese people have become automatic to the current systems and situations, and are just not ready to be jolted by


ant reason such as ‘bad weather’.

Among the senior citizens were also the youths who didn’t mind the rain to feel the expe-rience of being counted and heard.

Anjusubba, a 19 year old who casted her first ballot said, “I feel im-portant and proud,” and was glad that she was of age to be a part of such an important decision.

likewise, other youths, The Journalist talked to said that they were happy and eager to take part in choosing the right party for the benefit of the country and the people.

Ahley polling station saw a very good voter turnout but the polling station at Toribari how-ever saw fewer voters, comparatively.

May 31: 82-year-old Budi maya who braved the heavy downpour to cast her ballot

the effect of change, be it good or bad.

Besides whom better to entrust the country with, than the leaders who al-ready has experience and knows what to make of the country.

Similary, Tashi Zang-mo, a student said that a change in leadership will bring upon the country laws and systems which are unfamiliar. And that she said will distract the people and be confusing in many uncomfortable ways.

So in that regard she is happy that the former two parties are back in the picture.

“I am now waiting on who will be the ruling government to see if Bhu-tanese people really are the creatures of habit,” she says.

With deepest respect, the management of

Ugyen Phendeyling Resort & Meditation Center

join all the citizens in wishingYour Majesty

a very wonderful Birthday.Our prayers for

Your Majesty’s good health, long life and happiness.

Ugyen Phendeyling Resort & Meditation CenterSatsham Chorten, Paro, Bhutan

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| Jigme Thugten, Thimphu:

tabab Community school in Taba is the first kind of itself

in the country, where the toilets are to be seen right inside the building and the only community school with all the modern ame-nities.

The school is located at the outskirts of Thimphu city, in Taba enrolling 260 students under the super-vision of 12 faculty mem-bers and offers classes from preprimary (PP) till sixth standard.

It started functioning as a community school start-ing this year although it should have started last year.

although, the word Ta-bab has very long his-tory to be shared but in short the localities say that “many moons ago, the of-ficials returning back from Punakha had descended from riding horses after reaching the destination’’.

hence, Tabab meaning ‘descend from the horses’ is the name for the school in order to get deeper into the meaning of the place and essence to retain such indispensable Bhutanese culture and ginormous his-torical symbols by at least naming the school ‘Tabab’ to live on with the signifi-cances of the community.

The school has a indus-trial strength three storied L- shaped integrated struc-ture designed by the school planning and Building Division under the minis-try of education with the assistance from the gov-ernment of India.

The schools in Bhutan don’t have the toilet facili-ties within the building nor do the community schools have the affluence of mod-ern amenities. But Tabab

thE clock towEr square located be-low the norzin Lam,

Thimphu and right above the national football sta-dium in the heart of the capital city has a typical Bhutanese architectural outlook with a rich Bhu-tanese carvings, painting and hand crafted dragon in golden painting on all four directions symboliz-ing the country as an in-dependent kingdom but today it seems like reck-less and egomaniacs have got a complete authority over the area.

The epoch that we live in now is ‘The epoch of Crime and social Distor-tion’ where the problem related with the youth has reached its peak defy-ing the canons framed by the government. The hid-den abracadabra working behind the area is that today no one is willing to speak to the media about the area and seems like the people from the area who can speak a lot on the topic have decided to take the facts to the grave.

Leaving back Thimphu city in hustle and bustle, most of the people from all walks of life come to the area to kickback in the area itself or at the restaurants in its vicinity and few of them who of-

| Jigme Thugten, Thimphu:

school is a first of its kind where the toilets are to bee seen right inside the building with the wealth of modern amenities.

The school has an area of two acres with a mini- football field, basketball court and a spacious park-ing lot plus an enough space for the students to play around.

To top it all off the school is peacefully located amongst the beautiful blue pine, serene atmosphere, flanked by the clear stream

silently flowing through thus creating a perfect am-bience for leaning.

sonam Jamtsho, the principle said that the number of student enroll-ment doesn’t seem like a problem and are expecting the number to increase in the coming few years.

The advantage that re-ally makes them happy is that they do not have to worry about the most com-mon problem rest of the schools have to deal with, such as substance abuse and codes of conduct. he explained that all the chil-dren are young and inno-cent.

But they however have the demanding need to construct an annex to put up a multipurpose hall, so that the parents of young students and other older students will have a con-venient space for their meals especially during bad weather conditions, he

said.according to him the

school should have start-ed functioning last year but the construction de-lay and other minor set-backs had distanced the commencement.

now with the school in effect, it has helped the localites as they no more need to make the school run as opposed to earlier when those young chil-dren had to go to schools far away from home Taba.

and moreover, Dech-encholing middle school

which had been afflicted with excess of student is now relieved after a total number of 110 students were transferred to the cur-rent site.

now both the schools have been imparting the quality education because of having a lesser number of students inside the class-room.

“I am a mother of two children studying here and I feel tremendously com-fortable as I do not need to fear about my children reaching back home safely after the school. The most helpful change that I have noticed is that, earlier I failed to make the padkos ready for my children. now, with the establishment of this school all these prob-lems are a thing of past and the school being at stone’s throw away has re-ally subsided our worries,” said kunzang, a mother.

But the only fear that remains popular among the students, teachers and the parents alike is that they feel the small children might get bitten by both the pie dogs as well as the stray dogs lingering around the road. To this end the school administration had worked with the local municipality and at this time by and by the dog populations linger-ing around have reduced by an inch.

Today, Tabab govern-ment school has not only helped the students and the mothers but also helped the shopkeepers in the locality.

Both the students and the parents are enthusi-astically taking care of the school and most sig-nificantly trying to derive from it the best of what the government has showered upon them.

ten go to the area has a lot more to share.

’’I am not trying to im-pose a restriction or con-demning the youth but there are 101 ways to be well mannered and most of the youth today fail to mind their P’s and Q’s in the public gathering. They do not care to romance in front of others and I am still puzzled on how the government is not being able to catch the smokers red handed at the spot. and today the chief con-cern that every family has is on how to protect their girl members from the public as they have become a fashion victim and all the victims are to be seen over there at the clock tower square’’ said, Tashi, a civil servant.

Today, if we view the clock tower square in a real figure all that meets our eye is a young Bhuta-nese youth, having styled themselves on western looks who somewhat take after swaggers and most common is hooligans and woeful graffiti which dominates the area.

The tower has been seen by few as a famous rendezvous among the immature youth. “Where you are you dude? I am at the clock tower square, get down here” is what we hear.

The youths really do not need a reason to go down to the area as most of them have their bone of contention there and terrifying and unearthly behavior is also to be seen there.

The clock tower square has become as busy as bees where the first half of the day is being owned by the adults and families but towards the evening the area is seen packed like sardines by unlawful youths.

This entire sojourn boils down to stalking and keeping tab on how some-one is dressed and what kind of electronic gadgets they carry. among all of these going on, the scary move that at times the place resort to is the gang fight in the open air.

“I was at the counter re-turning back the change to my customers just to be awestruck with what met my eyes. It was unmistak-ably a gang fight and out of astonishment when I picked up my cell phone to dial 113 they then de-cided to disperse but the discussion however went on for an hour or so’’ said, the source.

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as thE university graduates prepare for preliminary ex-

amination and the royal civil service examination, the trend of graduates en-rolling in dzongkha lan-guage tuition continues and grows.

Till date more than three thousand graduates are re-corded to have availed the service to brush up on their written and spoken dzong-kha.

Despite dzongkha being the national language and a subject taught in schools and through college, it still remains to be a difficult subject.

sangay Choden, a grad-uate from Bangalore, In-dia, says that she find tak-ing classes for preliminary examination helpful in a way that, when she is in class she is forced to study, so everyday unintention-ally or intentionally she spends two hours prepar-ing for preliminary ex-amination irrespective of which subject it is.

she added it’s better to study in mass than alone. There are fewer chances of distraction, and the energy in the class room boosts her up. and having a teacher in front always gives that feeling of having some-thing to learn.

according to ugyen Tshering, a graduate stu-

dent from sikkim who is taking Dzongkha and Data Interpretation in Dzong-kha Learning Institution said that, institutions offer-ing tutorial classes are re-ally helpful and it is bene-ficial to students especially for those who had stuided abroad and in India.

he added, “I can recol-lect what I have studied in my school days with the assistance of the classes that I am taking for the preparation of preliminary examination.”

similarly, kezang wang-mo, a graduate from sherubtse College, said that, it is helpful because it not only teaches the lan-guage but also gives them the ideas and tips about the preliminary examina-tion and the formation of the questions to be expect-ed.

one of the institutes which provide the service is the dzongkha language institute (DLI) which is le-gally the licensed first pri-vate Institute of its kind in the country established in 2005.

The mandate of the Institute is to preserve and promote Dzongkha, the national language through various programs such dzongkha IT and lan-guage.

as the first private na-tional language institute, DLI will strive to uphold

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| Karma Dema, July 18:

thE royal Bhutan po-lice awarded certifi-cates to 19 commu-

nity volunteers of Friends of Police (FoP), in recogni-tion of their support dur-ing the election, at police headquarter on July 18.

Police public partner-ship program (PPPP) which was launched in septem-ber last year is also known as friends of police (FoP) which was started to foster partnership to break social barrier which exists be-tween police and citizen.

The chief of police, Brig-adier kipchu namgyel said that FoP was the third com-munity police, after Police youth Partnership Program (PyPP) and Police and out of school youth Partner-ship Program (PosyPP).

While PyPP and PosyPP were youth based commu-nity police however in FoP students and under gradu-ates are not allowed.

The goal of the program is to recall all the elements of police, community and local government to work in solidarity to search for solutions to ensure security and safety within the indi-vidual communities.

It was mentioned that the program has a poten-tial to provide an enabling environment for the police and the members of the community to come to-gether and work towards collective goal of creating safer society.

The chief of police said that the “nationwide target is to increase the FoP up to 1,000 of which 200 would be in Thimphu, place with the highest crime rate.”

The police can recruit thousands of people, but the people’s attitude to po-lice has been negative, and moreover they do not want to make the nation as “po-

lice state”. “We want to make every

citizen a policeman who is not in uniform while every policeman is a citizen who is in uniform.” he said.

he also said that it was basically to bring police and citizens closer towards realizing the goal of mak-ing Bhutan the safest place to live and work and to make general public to un-derstand the problems on the streets.

The chief of police said that “as a community po-lice, they would observe the behavior of those who stray at night and can also inform their friends on spotting those children. such services would help to reduce crime rates. “Pre-vention and reduction of crime should be the fifth pillar of gross national happiness”.

The objectives of the FoP programme are to serve the community promptly and effectively and to reach out police service to the com-munity.

In addition the program is to reduce police response time and bring police and community together.

Besides it aims to make the community participate in self policing, make the community aware of po-lice duties and functions, and professionalize police service and make it people oriented.

Further FoP was started with the objective to make police service accountable to the state as well as to the community and most im-portantly to build trust and confidence in police.

meanwhile it was in-formed that september 1 will be marked as police ris-ing day on a positive note that such programme will build the trust and good-will of police as a partner-ship of the community.

» July 19, 2013: Election Commission of Bhutan awarded certificate to the newly elected National Assembly members

Ngawang, 55, shopkeeper“Druk Phuensum Tshog-

pa has won in the primary round and there is a vast difference as compare to the general election. over a period of month they have seen the changes, so they are not able to accept the loose adding every candi-date of DPT has had a hope inside them that they will win the election just like in the primary round. But they have lost the election which was an unexpected and now they are in a state of shock not accepting the loss. somehow they are ex-pressing their frustration.”

Wangchuk, 37, private employee

“In 2008 election it was only two elected members for opposition, but the current opposition has 15 experienced members and will surely be a strong op-position party, and the country will be in the safer side.”


དཱ་ཇོར་ན་ལིསཊི། རེས་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ། རིམ་ཨང་ ༣ པའི་ཐོན་རིམ་ ༤༩ པ།

ཆུ་འབྲུག་ཟླཝ་ ༤ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༦། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༣ ཟླཝ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡ །

མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཉམས་གསོ་ཞུ་ཚར་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མགར་ས་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་དེ་ མེ་མཆོད་བཞེས་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཉམས་ཆགས་ཤོར་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༦ དེ་ཅིག་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ཉམས་གསོ་ཞུ་ཚར་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

རྫོང་ཉམས་གསོ་ཞུའི་ལཱ་ཚུ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༠ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ལཱ་འབད་བའི་ནམ་དུས་ལུ་ བྱ་སྟབས་མ་བདེ་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ཐོན་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ དུས་ཡུན་མངམ་འགོར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༨ ལུ་ མེ་མཆོད་བཞེས་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ལྷ་ཁང་དང་ བདག་སྐྱོང་ཡིག་ཚང་ དེ་ལས་ སྐུ་རྟེན་གསུང་རྟེན་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ད་རེས་ ཉམས་བཅོས་ཞུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྫོང་དེ་ ཧེ་མའི་བཟོ་བཀོད་དང་ དུམ་གྲ་རེ་མ་འདྲཝ་སྦེ་ཡོད་ཨིན་པས།

ཉམས་བཅོས་ལཱ་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ལས་མི་མ་ཐོབ་མི་ གནམ་གཤིས་གནས་སྟངས་ཀྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་

ཐོན་ལམི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ དུས་ཡུན་རིངམོ་ འགོར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

རྫོང་ཉམས་གསོ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ མ་དངུལ་ས་ཡ་ ༡༥ བགོ་བཀྲམ་འབད་དེ་ ཡོད་སར་ལས་ ད་ཚུན་ རྫོང་ཕྱི་ཁའི་ལཱ་དང་ ནང་ན་གི་སྡེབ་རིས་ཚུ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་སྟེ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་གིས་ ཟད་འགྲོ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ ས་ཡ་ ༡༤ དེ་ཅིག་ བཏང་ཚར་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

རྫོང་དེ་ནང་ནང་རྟེན་གཞན་ཚུ ་བཞེངས་ནི་འདི་ ཤུལ་མའི་ཟླཝ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་ནང་འཁོད་བསྒྲུབ་ཚུགས་པའི་རེ་བ་བསྐྱེད་དེ་སྦེ་འདུག

མགར་ས་རྫོང་འདི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༦༤༨ ལུ་ ཞབས་དྲུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གིས་ གདན་ས་བཅགས་གནང་པའི་ཤུལ་ ལུ་སྡེ་སྲིད་དང་ བླ་ཆེན་ཚུ་གིས་ རིམ་པ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྒྱ་བསྐྱེད་མཛད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

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༉ མི་དབང་ མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་ སྨད་འཚོ་དང་ ཇ་རེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ ཁྱིམ་གུང་ ༡༡༢ ལུ་ ཟ་ཆས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཆུམ་དེ་ཚུ་ གསོལ་རས་སྦེ་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

དེ་ཡང་ ད་རེས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཆར་ཆུ་དང་ སེརཝ་རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཁོང་གིས་ ལོ་ཐོག་ཚུ་ གནོད་པ་རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཟ་འཐུང་གི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཚུ་ སེལ་ཐབས་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།

ཆར་ཆུ་དང་ སེརཝ་གིས་ སྨད་འཚོ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ས་གནས་ ཨུང་སྒར་དང་ དྲུག་ལ་ གོང་དར་དང་ སྟོང་སི་སྦི་ དེ་ལས་ གུ་ལི་སྤང་གི་ གཡུས་ཚན་ཚུ་ནང་གི་ ས་ཞིང་ཨེ་ཀར་ ༨༥ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གི་ གེ་ཛ་ཚུ་ གནོན་པ་རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ཇ་རེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ ལ་དྲོང་དང་པམ་ དེ་ལས་ ཡུམ་ཆེ་གི་ གཡུས་ཚན་ཚུ་ནང་ཡང་ གེ་ཛ་ཞིང་ ཨེ་ཀར་ ༢༥ དེ་ཅིག་ གནོད་པ་རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

ད་རུང་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་གཟིམ་དཔོན་ཡིག་

ཚང་གིས་ རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ལས་ སྡེ་ཚན་ཅིག་བཟོ་སྟེ་ གནོད་པ་འབྱུང་ཡོད་པའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ བལྟ་བསྐོར་འབད་དེ་ འཕྲལ་གྱི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བཟུམ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ སྨད་འཚོ་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ མོནམ་བྱཱ་གི་སོན་ཚུ་ཡང་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ ཇ་རེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ མི་ཚུ་གིས་ གནོད་པ་བརྐྱབ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཐོ་འདི་ཚུ་ ལོག་བསྐྱར་གསོ་འབད་མི་ནང་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚུ་ འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་མས།

ད་རུང་ གནོད་པ་བརྐྱབ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཡུས་ཚན་ཚུ་ནང་གི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལུ་ ས་ཞིང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་ཐོག་ལས་ ས་འདི་ཚུ་ ཕྱག་མི་བདའ་ནི་དང་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་འདི་ མི་འཐོན་ནི་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཚུ་ཡང་ བྱིན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ད་རུང་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་གྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ ཤུལ་མམ་གྱི་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་གི་འཆར་གཞི་ནང་ ཆུའི་གཡུར་བ་རྐྱབ་ནི་དེ་ གཙོ་རིམ་གཙོ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ བཞག་ནི་ལུ་ གྲོས་ཐག་བཅད་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

མི་དབང་ མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྐྱིད་སྡུག་གི་གསོལ་རས།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༨ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཅན་གྱི་ དམང་གཙོའི་གཞུང་གི་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ བཙག་འཐུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ཚར་ཏེ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ད་རུང་རང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ ༢ པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གི་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུ་འདི་ཡང་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཚོགས་པ་རྙིངམ་ འབྲུག་ཕུན་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོའི་ཚོགས་པ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁོང་ ༢ ཀྱིས་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ དོ་འགྲན་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

མི་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ ཚོགས་

སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༣ གྱི་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ།པ་ ༢ ཆ་ར་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་མི་ལུ་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་བཤདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ལ་ལོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་མིའི་གྲལ་ཁར་ ཚོགས་པ་གསརཔ་ འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ སྤྱིར་དབབ་ཚོགས་པ་ ༢ ལས་ ཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཅིན་ ཟེར་བའི་རེ་བ་བསྐྱེད་དེ་འབད་རུང་ མནོ་བསམ་བཏང་དོ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་བྱུང་མ་ཚུགས་མི་ལུ་ བློ་ཕམ་བྱུང་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་སྤྱིར་དབང་ཚོགས་པ་ནང་ འཐུས་མི་མངམ་ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ཡོད་དེ་འབད་རུང་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་གྱི་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་བལྟཝ་ད་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བཙུགས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ ཚོགས་པ་ལུ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་མ་

འབད་བས་ཟེར་ ན་གཞོན་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

མི་སེར་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ལས་ ༦༥ དེ་ཅིག་གིས་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ་ ༢ ཀྱིས་འཐོབ་པ་ཅིན་ལེགས་ཤོམ་འོང་ནི་མས་ཟེར་བའི་ རེ་བ་བསྐྱེད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཅིག་མ་ཐོབ་མི་ལུ་ མི་སེར་མ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཧ་ལས་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཨིན་རུང་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཀྱི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་ ཧེ་མ་ལས་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚོགས་པ་ ༢ ར་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་གདམ་འཐུ་གྲུབ་མི་ལུ་ སེམས་དགའ་སྟེ་འདུག་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

















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7Sunday, June 2, 2013 THE JOURNALISTTHE JOURNALIST

advErt6 Sunday, June 2, 2013

On this marvelous moment of the

Birth Anniversary of Your Majesty,

the management and staff of

Bhutan Happy Land Tours and Travels

extend their fondest wishes and prayers for the

long life of Your Majesty.

Bhutan Happy Land Tours and TravelsThimphu, Bhutan. C: 17724616

Technical Training Institute ChumeyBumthang

On the beautiful occasion of the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, Jetsun Pema Wangchuck,

the management, staff and trainees of Technical Training Institute Chumey extend our

heartfelt felicitations and prayers for Your Majesty’s long life, good health and happiness.

On the joyous and auspicious occasion of the 23rd Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen Jetsun

Pema Wangchuck, the Rabdey, Civil Servants, Business Community and the People re- dedicated our commitment to

serve our country with utmost loyalty and sincerity. Haa Dzongkhag would like to offer our tribute and profound

prayers for Her Majesty’s good health and long life.Tashi Delek

Haa Dzongkhag

In commemoration of The Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema,

the management and staff of Bhutan Polythene Co. Ltd., Phuentsholing extend our fondest wishes for Your Majesty’s

long life with continued peace and prosperity within the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Staying voiceless on Election Day| Ugyen Wangmo

As the nation went to polls on May 31 to be counted,

there were few citizens who were left voiceless to accept whatever leadership other chooses for them.

Despite its small voter base, the nation still saw a significant number of people who remained silent on the poll day for various reasons.

“Give me some one I can trust my future on and I will vote again,” said Pema Tashi, 36, a corporate employee.

he said that he had vot-ed in 2008, but over the past five years under the first elected government he has learned about how politicians can lie and mislead the public.

“I cannot waste my vote and time for some-one who lies for their own personal gain,” he affirmed.

It will take him an oc-currence of at least one government which truly represents the people to be able to bring back his trust and confidence to vote again.

on the other hand, choki Dorji, 53, a civil servant said that there is going to be an election whether one likes it or not, and one of the can-didates is going to win whether they like them or not.

he said “right to vote is my democracy and politicians are my lifeline who will decide the future of my country,” so he took the responsibility to go out and vote.

likewise, Ngawang Yonten, a 31 year old graduate said, “I am not fine with the way things

are and I will not leave the important decisions up to others.”

According to him, to vote is not just a right but it is a democratic obliga-tion, “to live in a country where you have a say in how you are governed.”

Besides, to decide to not to vote is a betrayal to the nations ‘past, present and future generations’.

And Bhutan will be able to achieve a govern-ment that represents all the people only if every-one were to vote.

But, Kezang choden, 37 year old resident in phuentsholing is one of those who were compelled to stay home on poll day.

“I am registered to vote in Mongar and I would have liked to cast my bal-lot,” she said. however she was not able to ar-range the trip because of the cost of travelling.

her entire family is sad that they could not take part in deciding for their own future, but they are still hopeful that they might be able to make it for the general election.

Similarly, ugyen Zang-mo, 44, who had regis-tered for postal ballot will have to remain voiceless as her postal ballot has been rejected. She said that her constituency is about four days travel from Thimphu and it was

simply not possible to go and vote in the polling station.

Despite her strong desire to vote, she is con-demned to remain silent because of the gauntlet of obstacles to voting.

“I could not go to vote because there was no at home to look after the cows,” said Daza Ama, 47 year old farmer from Pemagatshel.

But she will definitely fulfill her civic duty by making it for the general round though. She ex-plained that her children will be home from school to give her some flexibili-ty from the daily working schedule.

Similarly, Phuntsho wangdi and his entire family could not stop their work in the farm to go and vote. he reasoned that they were scheduled for the obligatory labour to their kinsmen on the poll day, which is a la-bour exchange tradition practiced in his village.

A 65-year-old man from Phuentsholing said that he is not interested in politics. “Politicians makes hundreds of prom-ises during the campaign and does not fulfil any after they are elected,” he said.

Further, once in power all the politicians are the same and deny knowing them even if they are from the same constituency.

“he is a lie and my vote is futile,” he declared as the reason for not cast-ing his ballot.

Sonam choden, Thim-phu resident registered in Khaling -Womrong con-stituency in Tashigang said that she didn’t vote be-cause being a private em-ployee she didn’t have the privilege of postal ballot.

And to go to the poll-ing station means the worry of having to travel for three days to get there and another three days to come back.

In addition the ex-penses and the trouble of paper works for leave from office, is just not the trouble she can afford to go through.

Sadly for lhendup Zangmo, 44, whose poll-ing station was in Nam-seling, Thimphu could not make it owing to the bad weather. She feels guilty for not voting but yet, “As part of democ-racy, we should feel free to not vote as well,” she says.

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ALSO INQUIRY SOLICITED| Views collected by Karma Dema

Druk Phunsum Tshogpa is not ready to be the opposition party as they have fifteen issues to be clarified and the nation is worried understating

the importance of strong opposition for a strong democracy.

Nima, Thimphu Resident“Withdrawing the can-

didates or dissolving the party is not good for the democracy. They may af-fect the country in a wrong way.”

Kuenzang Thinly, Civil Servant“general election was

grossly unfair and many factors were involved in influencing the outcomes. majority win of Peoples Democratic Party is not the problem but what concerns us is the unfair and cor-rupted election process that involved bribery and many other illegal things.”

Tashi Wangchuk, Private employee

“In primary round the people have voted for DPT because they were not aware of the corruption that DPT members have done but in general round the citizen have known the corruption and they have given the chance to PDP to be the new government.”

Wangchuk Tshering“DPT is not accepting the

defeat; think about 2008 election when PDP got only two seats. But this time DPT has got 15 seats which is more than enough to bring the unique changes in the country. all the deserving candidates have won from both DPT and PDP.”

Tashi Dorji, Businessman“It is sad and shameful

that DPT is involving king in to the matter. The elec-tions are over. People de-cided so learn to live with it and move on.”

Dechen Lhamo, Private Employee

“It is sad that DPT is making an issue when calm should be restored. It seems like DPT will func-tion only if they get to be the ruling and otherwise it is ‘no’ for them. This is again more reason to tell the people that they have decided rightly.”

| Dawa Norbu, Thimphu

thE animation works in Bhutan is seen to be ultimate in the fu-

ture considering its power of diverse influence on the people and the society.

Though the information technology was introduced late in Bhutan it has flour-ished and developed in the country very fast, however when it comes to anima-tion related works it is seen to have limited scope for development considering the need of huge invest-ment and limited demand.

according to kinga sith-up, managing director of the green Dragon media, enough investment in ani-mation works will bring in quite a huge revenue gen-erating business from out-side. But he said that there is a need of open and bold investment from the gov-ernment which is not re-ally seen to be happening at present.

he also added that with


cratic Party, Tshering To-bgay was unanimously nominated as the prime minister for the new gov-ernment by the winning candidates on July 19.

Tandin Wangmo one of the PDP candidate said that as per the article 19 sections 1 of the constitu-tion of the kingdom of Bhutan, whoever wins the election the president of the winning party is to be-come the prime minister.

But PDP has set up a new system which is to nominate the prime min-ister through ballot vote within the wining party. she said it was conducted mainly because it would help and give option to other capable candidates who wish to become prime minister.

Thus, in the secret ballot held behind closed doors by the 32 wining candi-dates of PDP, 30 voted “yes,” while one candidate, Jigme Zangpo who was yet to arrive in Thimphu con-firmed his vote over the phone and the president himself abstained from the ballot.

The unanimous decision follows the intimation giv-en to all candidates from

the PDP office to nominate the Prime ministerial can-didate. The prime minister elect Tshering Tobgay ex-pressed his gratitude to all the candidates for reposing their trust and confidence in him. “I remain hum-bled by your gesture and thank you all for the sup-port shown,” he said. add-ing, “The most important thing now is to remember that we are team and must work as one in the interest of the nation and the peo-ple who have put us here in the first place.”

The candidates then requested that the prime minister elect should work on the nomination of the ministerial candidates. To this, Dasho Damcho Dorji, the gasa candidate said that given the paramount role of the ministers in the government and the col-lective responsibility of the cabinet, the candidates should first be nominated by the prime minister elect and then presented to the executive committee for endorsement.

The prime minister elect Tshering Tobgay accepted the views expressed saying that the nomination of the minister was a very diffi-cult and unenviable task. he said that, “I know that each one of you is capable of holding a ministerial portfolio and the job of minister is most challeng-ing and calls for the ut-most capability and hard work.”

Tshering Tobgay the newly elect prime minis-ter said that the important thing here is, however to be mindful that they are one team entrusted with one task that is of serving the king, people and the nation.

according to him they are the government of the people and should under no circumstances falter, fail or forget their commit-ment to the sacred duty.

“It is now beholden upon us to take the na-tion and elevate it to new heights and make it a truly gnh nation by ensuring the happiness of every citi-zen,” said the Pm elect and added “this is our aspira-tion and we will always re-solve to fulfill it irrespective of the challenges ahead.”

however the nominated names of the ministers will be submitted to the execu-tive committee today.

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limited market and budget the quality of the anima-tion works are also com-promised.

animation work is a very high investment busi-ness and the revenue gen-eration won’t even cover up for the right equipment even if one chooses to in-vest in it, he said. and it

will take long time before the investment is returned. Thus he said that they do the animation works with the capacity of the equip-ments that they can af-ford.

he also pointed out that limited market, poor sup-port and governments not understanding the process

on animation are some of the challenges the com-pany faces and it also dis-courages such other differ-ent businesses from flour-ishing.

however it is a good ca-reer for the IT graduates to start with such business in the country adding that the animation works in

Bhutan can have quality better than present if it has an open and bold invest-ment from government.

Palden Phuntsho, an IT graduate and a private

| Jigme Thugten, July 15:

almost four thou-sand young stu-dents have partici-

pated in Police youth Part-nership Programme (PyPP) till date since its inception in 2008, to help battle against youth crimes and delinquencies.

a Five day PyPP this summer similarly saw more than hundred stu-dent participants, ranging from youths of elementary school to sophomore stu-dents from sherubtse Col-lege.

It was specifically sched-uled around the time of the election Day so they can help patrol the community for successful election.

one of the notable and eventful contributions made by the youth volun-teers during the program was when they assisted the police on the poll day.

They shared their expe-rience on how they went around requesting and making sure that the shops and restaurants remained closed.

according to them there were incidences when some hoteliers would not take heed of their request but instead gave them mouth lashing on the ground that they are bugged by their patrolling.

Despite getting set on the edge of the ropes by the ho-teliers the volunteers how-ever tolerantly waited for them to simmer down as they were taught to have patience.

such experience made them realize how difficult it would be to lead a life of a policeman or a woman in the country.

During the closing cer-

emony, the chief of po-lice, Brigadier kipchu nam-gye appealed the youth participants not to become defectors in the future as he wanted the youth of the country to become a po-lice’s friend not their closet enemies. ‘a promise break-er is a shoe maker’, said, the chief of the police to the youth participants so expects them to keep their word and commitment. he also said that he respects the youth more than his of-ficers in deference to their capacity and interest in helping the police.

he was thrilled to see the increasing number of youth participants even when such kind of events demands blood, sweat and tears from them.

In addition the Journal-ist also learnt that the roy-al Bhutan police has plans to create websites online to educate the populace for the reason that the in-ternet has become one of the most prominent and reliable electronic media in Bhutan.

It was said that the estab-lishment of PyPP clubs and law clubs at every school would help eradicate the problems related with the present youth. In doing so, rBP will partner them-selves with other impor-tant stakeholders and key players in order to achieve success for the betterment of the community.

The PyPP was initiated by the royal Bhutan police with the aim of preventing youth crimes and delin-quencies through an excel-lent relationship between the police and the youth.

education on gang fights and its adverse effect on a society, brushing up on

| Jigme Thugten, July 20

samshing gadEn under mendrelgang gewog in Tsirang

Dzongkhag has recently seen an immense wild bore attack on their maize fields.

The bore which has come in group has now started posing threat to the people of the gewog and has al-most taken everything of their hardships.

The people of the locality had done everything hu-manly possible to bring the attack to an end. however it was reported that the farmers were outnumbered by the wild animals leav-ing them vulnerable.

To make matters worse the lack of immediate re-sponse from the authorized personnel has put a curb on accomplishing their mission.

The farmers have moved heaven and earth at the initial stage of the farming season thinking that the fortune may shine upon them but the after math they are going through right now has really damp-ened their spirit.

“I was hoping for the best that I will be able to

get a good outcome and we had worked very hard but when the time for harvest approached, everything went into vain,” said nima Tamang, a farmer.

earlier, the wild animals would be scared to see the dogs in the farm but today they have become familiar and intimate with the dogs that the presence of dogs does not make any differ-ence to them. so, they do not have any other options to stand in for this problem he added.

The farmers in Bhu-tan are having a sleepless night especially during this season as they fear that their full- fledged crops might get attacked by the wild animals. The more farmers try to handle the case, the more attacks are to be seen. as a result, their hardships become futile and currently, the problem of this kind has become hot off the press.

and the farmers all across the country have become off color because they know that the prob-lem is a wayward and there is nothing that the ministry of agriculture or anyone for that matter can do to help them.

how drug is harmful to lives, youth policing in selected areas and sensiti-zation on child rights and community service during celebrations and national events were some of the courses on the content.

These courses have been specifically designed to get rid off common youth crimes through simple and very proactive programmes with the police.

a total number of 115 students had taken part in the event, where 43 of them were girls and 72 boys.

a day long survey con-ducted by the Journalist in the Capital saw a posi-tive feedback, were people expressed that the inter-est showed by the present youth to team with the police is having a positive change in the society.

“We are in hands and gloves terms with the traffic police but the youth police really take the concerned matter quite seriously. We are forced to dot our ‘I’s and cross our T’s’, before driving and while driving,” said a taxi driver.

Today, Bhutan is seen by the rest of the world as one of the developing coun-tries where developments and crimes have become complementary to each other. Despite, the attempts made by the government to eradicate the problems concerning the youth, still the question of solving the youth related problem lies somewhere up in the air, as the youth do not hang in with the idea. so, are the Bhutanese youth worth fighting against the crime in the country by the pro-cess of merging with the police?














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རང་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༣

༉ ཆུ་ཁའི་ གློག་མེ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་གི་འོང་འབབ་དེ་ མར་ཕབ་མི་འགྱོ་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ ད་ལས་ འབྲུག་མི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཁར་ ཚ་གྱང་ལང་དགོཔ་མི་འཐོན་ནི་ཨིན་པས། དེ་ཡང་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ ཝི་པི་ཧ་རན་གྱིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ ཆུ་ཁ་གློག་མེ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལས་ཐོབ་མི་ འོང་འབབ་འདི་ མར་ཕབ་ རྩ་ལས་རང་ མི་འགྱོ་ཞེར་བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ གློག་མེ་གི་རིན་འཐུས་འདི་ ཨུ་ནེཊ་རེ་ལུ་ རུ་པི ༢ སྦེ་ རྒྱ་འབྲུག་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ན་ ཟུང་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ ཞལ་འཆམ་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཨིན་ཟེར་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།གཞུང་ཚབ་ཀྱིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ མ་གཞི་ འབྲུག་ལས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཡུ་ནིཊ་རེ་ལུ་ རུ་པི ༢ སྦེ་ ཉོ་སྟེ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལུ་ རུ་པི་ ༡ དང་ པའི་ཤ ༥༥ སྦེ་ བཙོང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ པའི་ཤ ༤༥ རྒུད་ཕོག་སྟེ་ཡོད་མི་འདི་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་སྤྲོད་དོ་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ ད་ལས་ཕར་ཡང་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་རང་ སྡོད་འོང་ཟེར་ཨིན་མས།ད་རུང་ དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ གཞུང་ཚབ་ཀྱིས་ སླབ་མི་ནང་ འབྲུག་ལུ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱིས་ ཚོང་

ཆུ་ཁའི་གློག་མེའི་འོང་འབབ་མར་ཕབ་མི་འགྱོ་ནི་ཨིནམ།

༉དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༣ གྱི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོའི་ཚོགས་པ་འདི་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ཚོགས་པ་སྦེ་ གདམ་འཐུ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ ད་ལས་ཕར་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༥ ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ དགའ་སྐྱིད་དང་ ཞི་བདེ་སྔར་བ་ལྷགཔ་སྦེ་ འབྱུང་ཚུགས་པའི་ རེ་བ་བསྐྱེདཔ་ཨིན་པས། མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པའི་ སྲིད་འཛིན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ ད་ལས་ཕར་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༥ འི་རིང་ འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་འདི་ ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་ཚོགས་པ་སྦེ་ ཕྱག་ཞུ་མི་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ཚོགས་ཁང་ནང་ ཉམས་མྱོང་དང་ ཐབས་ཤེས་ ལེ་ཤ་ འབྱུང་ཚུགས་གསུངས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།ད་རུང་ སྲིད་འཛིན་གྱིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་

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fair and research sympo-sium will be held at the Clock Tower square today at 9 am.

The Bhutan ecological society (Bes) is an umbrella organization bringing to-

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འདི་ ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་ཚོགས་པ་སྦེ་ ཕྱག་ཞུ་མི་འདི་གིས་གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་འདི་ ཕན་ནུས་ཅན་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ སྐྱོང་ནི་ལུ་ ལམ་སྟོན་ཚུ་ གནང་འོང་ཟེར་ དམངས་མི་སེར་གཙོའི་ཚོགས་པ་འདི་ མི་སེར་གྱི་གདམ་ཁ་དག་འཁྲིལ་བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་ཅིག་ཟེར་གསུངས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ད་རེས་ མི་སེར་གམངས་གཙོའི་ཚོགས་པ་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ཚོགས་པ་སྦེ་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་མི་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སྲིད་བློན་ལས་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཀྱི་ ཡི་གུ་འཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ འབྲུག་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་བར་ནའི་ མཐུན་ལམ་དང་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་འདི་ འགྱུར་བ་མེད་ཟེར་པའི་ རྟགས་མཚན་ཨིན་མས་ཟེར་ གསུངས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དམངས་གཙོའི་བྱ་རིམ་ནང་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ག་དེ་དྲག་དྲ་མཛད་གནང་མི་ལུ་ མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པའི་ཧོངས་ལས་ བཀའ་དྲིན་དགའ་འཚོར་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ཞུ་བའི་ཁར་ འབྲུག་གི་བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ལུ་ཡང་ རང་མོས་དང་རྣམ་དག་སྦེ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ཚུགས་མི་ལུ་ བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཡོད་ཟེར་ གསུངས་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

ཁྲལ་ལོག་བྱིན་སྲོལ་ཡོད་མི་འདི་ ཆ་མེད་མ་བཏང་པར་ དེ་སྦེ་ར་ཡོདཔ་ལས༌ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འགན་ཡིག་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ འདི་ཡང་ ཐོབ་སྦེ་ར་ ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ ཁོང་གིས་ ལམ་ལུགས་འདི་ འགྱུར་བཅོས་འབད་ནིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་དང་ བསྟན་རྒྱས་ལྷན་ཁག་དང་ཅིག་ཁར་ གསུང་གྲོས་ཚུ་གནང་ཡི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ ནེ་པཱལ་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་བར་ན་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ འབྲུག་གིས་དང་ལེན་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་གཞུང་གིས་ ཚོང་ཁྲལ་ཚུ་ དུས་འཕྲལ་ལས་ར་ ནང་འདྲེན་འབད་སའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ལས་ ཐོབ་ཚུགས་ཟེར་ གཞུང་ཚབ་ཀྱིས་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། གཞུང་ཚབ་ཀྱིས་འབད་བ ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་གིས་ ཅ་ཆས་ཚུ་ ལོག་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནི་དང་ ཡང་ན་ རྒྱ་གར་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་ཚུ་ནང་ ལོག་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་ནི་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ནང་འདྲེན་འབདཝ་ཨིན་པ་ཅིན་ རྒྱ་གར་ལས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཁྲལ་ག་ནི་ཡང་མ་ཕོག་པར་ འབག་འོངམ་ཨིན་ཟེར་བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།ལམ་ལུགས་གསརཔ་ལུ་ བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་རེ་ཡོད་པ་ཅིན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གཞུང་གི་བར་ན་ གསུང་གྲོས་གནང་སྟེ་མ་གཏོགས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཅིག་གིས་སྦེ་ གྲོས་ཐག་མི་ཆོད་ཟེར་ བཤད་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།


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RBP/HQ/Adm-23/2012-13 (77)

Quotation

The Royal Bhutan Police Headquarters invites sealed item rate quotations from the registered license holders for the supply of clothing for prisoners for the financial year 2013- 14.

Sl No. Particulars of itemCost of tender

documentSale of tenders

Date of submissionDate & time of openingFrom To

1 Supply of clothing for prisoners Nu. 700.00 26/7/2013 25/8/2013

30/8/2013 at 1000 hrs

30/8/2013 at 1100 hrs

The tender documents can be purchased from the office of the Procurement Unit, RBP HQ, Thimphu during office hours on payment of Nu. 700/- (non refundable). For further detail, may contact Procurement Officer at 00975- 02- 327756 or 322348 (ext. 2012).

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Bhutan Power Corporation LimitedRegional Corporate Office, West

ThimphuBPC/DCSD/RCO/Tech-4/2013/168

Notice Inviting Tender

BPC invites sealed tenders from the eligible Medium class Electrical Contractors registered with Construction Development Board (CDB) for Labour Contract of following electrical works in Thimphu Dzongkhag:

Particulars Eligibility CriteriaLabour contract works of construction of overhead HV ABC/ ACSR conductor and LV ABC lines, construction of substations and HT/LT UG Lines in and around Thimphu area (Packages III).

Medium Class

Bidding documents with detail terms and conditions can be purchased from the office of Regional Manager, Electricity Services Division, BPC, Thimphu from August 01 to August 21, 2013 during office hours on payment of Nu. 1500 (non refundable) to Assistant Finance Officer, Regional Finance and Account Division, BPC, Thimphu. Sealed bids complete in all respect must be submitted to the Regional Manager, Regional Corporate Office, West, BPC, by August 28, 2013, at 15:00 hrs.The bids shall be opened in the presence of Bidders representative who choose to attend on the same day at 16:00 hrs.

BPC reserves the right to reject any or all the bids or cancel/ withdraw the notice inviting tender without assigning any reasons whatsoever and in such case no renderer/ intending renderer shall have any claim arising out of such action.

Regional Manager

Dzongkhag AdministrationThimphu

TDA/HRD-09/2012- 2013/22

Vacancy Announcement

The Dzongkhag Administration, Thimphu has a vacancy for one number “Dry Sweeper” at Dzongkhag Administration, Thimphu in the category of “ESP” Level. The candidates may submit all their relevant documents in Original to the Human Resource Officer, Dzongkhag Administration, Thimphu on or before 31st July 2013. The short listed candidates will be informed through telephonic call.

Duly filled up Employment Form1.

Copy of Citizenship ID Card2.

Security Clearance Certificate Online3.

Original Medical Fitness Certificate4.

Two numbers of Passport size photograph5.

Age between 18- 50 years6.

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ECB/CEC-NOTIF-10/2013/197 Dated: 19th of July 2013

NOTIFICATION

The Election Commission of Bhutan hereby notifies the general Public that the BongmaanTshogpaDemkhong under KharGewog, Pema Gatshel Dzongkhag, has become vacant due to the death of the Tshogpa as reported by the Gup, KharGewog.

As there is no eligible voter who holds the Functional Literacy Test (FLT) Certificate from that Tshogpa Demkhong, it is hereby notified that the conduct of the Bye-Election in that Tshogpa Demkhong will have to be postponed until an indication is received from the Gewog of any eligible voter to sit for FLT and stand as Candidate. It is reported that there is no eligible voter to sit for FLT at this point of time.

The Functional Literacy Certificate is a requirement as under Section 178 (d) of the Election Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan, 2008.

Issued on the Eleventh Day of the Sixth Month of the Water Female Snake Year corresponding to 19th of July 2013.

By Order

Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan

ELECTION COMMISSION OF BHUTAN(Ensuring Free, Fair & Democratic Elections & Referendums)

Royal Monetary Authority of BhutanThimphu

RMA/ADM-06/2013-2014/0253

Notice Inviting Tender

Sealed quotations are invited from eligible suppliers for the supply of stationery items, printed forms, registers, electrical items etc. for the Financial Year 2013- 2014.

The tender document containing detailed specifications and required quantities of the above items can be purchased from the Administration & Finance Department from 19th – 25th July, 2013 during office hours upon payment of Nu. 150.00 which is non- refundable.

Director, AFD

and promote the Bhutanese national identity through preservation and pro-motion of Dzongkha.

Dzongkha Learning Institute (DLI) is offering special dzongkha Language course for university graduates appear-ing for preliminary examination and civil service common examinations.

It is indeed a good opportunity for the students studying in abroad and in In-dia.

It was recommended that there should be other institutions offering the same programme like the institute for lan-guage and cultural studies in semtokha.

Ceo of DLI said that, Dzongkha be-ing the national language is important for every citizen to preserve and protect. Dzongkha plays a vital role in a Bhuta-nese culture as it is one of the national identities. “I believe, preservation of dzongkha language is must,” he added.

The main objective of this institution is basically to provide trainings to those who need help in order to yield a prosper-ous nation. and also to provide tutorial classes to graduates so that they can be prepared to face the preliminary exami-nation which is just a month away.

as of now, there are 150 students at-tending the classes for the preparation of preliminary examination, he added.

The Journalist has encountered a study group somewhere in the town that con-sists of two teachers and more than 30 students preparing for preliminary ex-amination.

according to students, the fees of this study group are cheaper and reasonable as compared to the other institutions.

having interviewed one of the tutors, he says, “my study group is not to run purely on business, the motive isn’t a profit but it’s indeed solely to help students and provide a better guidance and build confidence.” he added, the group isn’t as large as other institutions but he is not concerned about it because it gives a great feeling of satisfaction facilitating it, he said. “I wish to provide tutorials for the entire subject for more number of students in future,” he added.

We see the number of graduates in-creasing every year, and the most students found Dzongkha a diffi-cult subject especially for those who graduated from India and abroad. most people find writing Dzongkhag even more difficult than speaking. The rule for writing, which is mostly derived from “Choeked”, is what is obscure.

The mind set is so strong that Dzong-kha is compelled to appear difficult even though it is not so.”

however the dzongkha language insti-tutes have helped the graduates with the skills necessary to win their ticket in to civil service.

“over the years english and english-related subjects kept on adding while Dzongkha did not see much of a substan-tial change.” however, Dzongkha lan-guage is to remain very important and as the national language of the country.

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employee said that while it comes to IT world, it is de-veloping in a very fast man-ner in Bhutan through the initiatives from the ministry of information and commu-nication and also through coming up of many IT re-lated private Businesses. he added that he is specifically fond in animation since he had been doing it from his college days. he also shared his plan to set up an ani-mation business with group of his friends but was con-cerned it should be brought at the huge investment.

similarly kinley gyelt-shen a trainee teacher said that there is a huge pros-pect in the animation busi-ness in Bhutan however he said that there are very less number of business current-ly into it. he added that in-formation technology have always interested him and said that if he gets an op-portunity he wants to take up the animation business. he also said that he sees animation business as one of the most imaginative and unique business opportunity with vast subject coverage in Bhutan.

Tenzin Dorji, an IT teach-er said that there is lot many rooms for coming up with many animated movies in Bhutan with subject varying from upholding of culture to creating awareness and for educating kids through unique stories from Bhutan. But he said that there is lack of collaboration among the IT graduates to come up with such business which he sees as a business that have lot of opportunity.

however Tandin Jamtsho said that though there is huge opportunity through information technology he feels that it is not explored to an extent where it is taken as career except for few. he added that there are some private IT businesses who are doing exceptionally well but the number is too less he said.

he added that there are lots that the IT graduates can do in Bhutan and can go further in Bhutan than it is today. Information tech-nology will and should go far realizing the power of IT and to ensure IT enabled en-vironment, he said.

royal highness ashi Chimi yangzom Wangchuck address during the launch of book, “Protected ar-eas and Biodiversity of Bhutan” stated that, the establishment of

Bhutan ecological so-ciety (Bes) has been indeed timely and be-fitting as Bhutan em-barks unprecedented economic develop-ment program.

“given that we are

small and mountain-ous country with frag-ile landscape, and our people’s livelihoods are intricately connected to our environment, every effort must be made to nourish, trea-

sure and protect our rich natural heritage.”

“With members from the government, academia, civil society and the general public, I hope Bes will play crucial role in the main-streaming the ecological issues to Bhutanese devel-opment discourse. as the patron, I offer my whole hearted support to the soci-ety for all its endeavors.”

Bhutan ecological society was launched in 2010 with the aim of bringing Bhu-tan’s ecological issues to mainstream development discourse.

The nation has so far managed to balance eco-nomic needs and ecological concerns, but it has been seen value in strengthen-ing scientific and policy mechanisms to ensure this further more.

Bhutan ecological soci-ety will serve this role by providing an organized sci-entific body to inform and guide policy makers, gov-ernment and citizens on current and emerging eco-logical issues in Bhutan.

also provide a platform for promoting conserva-tive research and sharing ecological knowledge in Bhutan, through trainings and seminars, research symposia, journal publica-tions, school programs and public outreach.

and last but not the least, a forum for discourse and cross-fertilization of ideas from multiple sec-tors, including legal, edu-cation, research, manage-ment, religious and media, to develop broad based solutions to Bhutan’s most pressing environmental problems.



HHoME

| Pema Denkar - Phuentsholing

AlThouGh, most people the Journalist talked

to were happy that their vote played into the result, there were few who felt otherwise.

The voter turnout and the result of the primary round of election held on May 31 could have been different if private em-ployees had the opportu-nity of postal ballot.

on a random inter-view conducted by the Journalist around the country, almost 80 per-cent of the private em-ployees have not casted their vote.

Most of them said that the trouble of travelling a long journey to their re-spective constituencies to cast their ballot was not reasonable according to their financial status.

Norbu, a private em-ployee said that whatever the result may be, it is very sad that the private employees were not en-

“Get leave and vote” - Election Commissioner

titled for postal ballots.“More than 30 percent

of the population is pri-vate employees and if they were given the op-portunity of postal ballot, the number could have made some difference on the result,” he said.

Sonam choden, an-other private employee also said that most of the people working in private companies fall under low or middle income group and it is a huge burden to travel long way just to cast their vote.

She said, “If they were given the privilege of postal ballot, they would have exercised their fran-chise to vote,” and talk-ing about the results, she is not happy it.

Most of the private em-ployees interviewed said that the parties always spoke about improving the status of private en-trepreneurs but so far it has just been talks with-out implementation.

“Forget about the sup-port, we are even de-

prived of postal ballot,” said a frustrated Kinley Nidup adding that the politicians are not at all in the favor of private en-trepreneurs and private employees.

Kinley Yangden from Bardo-Trongconstituency presently working for a private company in Phuentsholing said that she didn’t vote against her wish.

“even if I decide to pay the expense of travel-ling, it is still difficult to get leave from office,” she said adding that she wishes the postal ballot opportunity was given to the private employees as well.

“The parties always say it is very important to develop private en-trepreneurs to develop the country, but where is the support when they cannot even give the same opportunity to us,” said a frustrated private employee in Phuentshol-ing who said that the result could have been

the other way around if every private employees had voted.

But still, most of the private employees are hopeful that the election commission would con-sider the issue and make some effort to give them the equal opportunity of postal ballot.

on the other hand, Dasho Kunzang Wangdi, election commissioner of election commission of Bhutan said that the postal ballot is given only to civil servants and armed forces since they are deployed on election duties and have no time to go and cast their vote.

Further, the postal ballot is also given to corporate employees who provide essential services whereby they are en-gaged in essential duties during the election time.

“But for private em-ployees they should get leave and cast their vote,” said the commis-sioner.

| Pema Denkar - 30 May 2013, Phuentsholing

The Bank of Bhutan was awarded a “Plaque of Merit”

in recognition of their “Need Based Scholarship Scheme” by the ADFIAP (Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacifics) on May 22.

The recognition was awarded for the corpo-rate Social responsibility category for the year 2012 at 36 ADFIAP An-nual Meeting held in ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The winner however was Development Bank of Japan, Inc. for “DBJ Women entrepreneurs center” selected by AD-FIAP from entries by

BoB bags the “Plaque of Merit” recognitionmembers in eight differ-ent categories.

The award recognizes the program, project or undertaking developed, adopted and instituted by the member that ad-vances and sustains re-sponsible citizenship for social good.

BoBl started to provide the Need Based Scholar-ship to five economically disadvantaged female candidates every year for completing their two years of high school edu-cation in 2009.

The selection was done by the Department of education, Youth Devel-opment Fund and BoBl based on the laid out pa-rameters for selecting the most economically and socially disadvantaged

candidate. Till date we have sponsored 20 fe-male candidates, 15 have already completed their high school education while five of them will be completing this year.

“one of the culture adopted by BoBl is Social responsibility which is for meeting community needs through beneficial partnership and to sup-port community growth”, said the ceo of BoBl, Pema Namgyel Nadik.

he added, “We won’t stop the partnership with the community here since we have to grow much more along with the society.

We will be support-ing the tree plantation in Phuentsholing this National Forestry Day

to support the environ-ment and Blood Dona-tion drive on 14th June in Thimphu with the support from JDWNM hospital during the Word Blood Donors Day”.

ADFIAP is an asso-ciation of development banks and other finan-cial institutions engaged in the financing of de-velopment in the Asia-Pacific region. Its mission is to advance sustainable development through its members.

Founded in 1976, AD-FIAP has currently 131 member-institutions in 45 countries. The Asian Development Bank is a Special Member of the Association. BoB is a member of ADFIAP since April 2011.

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on the two day work-shop from July 21 to July 22, there will be various re-search presentations.

one of the presentations will be about sustainable livelihoods; they will be presenting on the com-munity- managed forests for biodiversity conserva-tive and poverty reduction in Bhutan. Following with medical plant diversity and their ethno medicinal use in the southern foot-hills of Bhutan himalaya. Physical egg quality char-acterization of Bhutanese chickens with commercial layer will also be a topic of presentation besides Bio-diversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods which will look at redefin-ing incentive based conver-sation for Bhutan.

another area will be on waste management that will look at using grounded glass as a fine aggregate in concrete mix followed by discussion on valuation of waste water treatment ser-vices and ecological sani-tation in Bhutan.

They will also present on economic and environ-ment impact of mining and its implications on the development of the coun-try and how electrification is helpful in environmental conservation in Bhutan.

another major topic of discussion will be climate change which will aim to look at the local perception on climate change and its impacts on biodiversity in Bhutan, climatic change and river flow in the Cham-kharchhu river basin and how ecological knowledge has evolved the climatic change adaption practices in a south-western coastal area of Bangladesh.

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similarly, biodiversity conservation another topic of presentation will look at royal manas national Park as a hotspot for wild felids, an ecological study of ru-fus-necked hornbill (aceros nipalensis) in Thrumshing-la national Park, and cul-ture and ecological signifi-cance of the vulnerable red panda in Bhutan. Further Bear conservation in Bhu-tan, the status of herpeto-fauna of Bhutan and the drivers of biodiversity at an anthropogenic landscape in Bangladesh will also be discussed to identify the appropriate solutions.

In addition, strengths and challenges in con-servation of Jigme Dorji national Park will be pre-sented.

habitat use and possible threats of musk deer con-servation in Thrumshingla national Park and move-ment and migration pat-terns of black-naked cranes will be few other topics for discussion.

another major topic for presentation is energy re-sources; under which pro-duction of biodiesel from wild species of jatropha cur-cas plant will be explored followed by discussion on fuel wood consumption and production in alpine Bhutan, a case study un-dertaken in Wangchuck Centennial Park.

and finally under wa-ter resources and agri-culture science, they will be presenting on the wa-ter resources assessment, case study on “Thimchu” besides the conservation of river for tangible and intangible resources, the case study of halda- a unique river of Bangladesh and allelopathetic effects ( hochst.ex chiov) on some selected crop plants.

| Dawa Norbu, Thimphu:

The kIng CuP’s first kick-off match was played between the

team from Bhutan, yeedzin FC and arambagh krira shangha a team from Ban-gladesh at changlimthang stadium yesterday.

During the first half of the match team yeedzin from Bhutan dominated the game against the Ban-gladesh team with constant pressure to the Bangladesh team.

however Bhutan leads the match when jersey number 22 from Bhutan scored the first goal.

even though Bhutan had a lead of one goal, it still made the supporters to cringe in fear when the team from Bangladesh striked on the target for several times.

after the first half both the team played a tough game with equal strikes from one another. how-ever in the end team from Bangladesh could not score even a goal and the team yeedzin won the game with the one goal to zero.

however in an inter-view with the coach s.m asifuzzaman of the Ban-gladesh team, arambagh krira shangha said that the team never expected to lose but said that it is their bad luck.

he also added that in their home ground they are used to playing in a natural grass and it has been little difficult for them to adjust with the ground

as they had limited time to practice in the Changlim-ithang ground. But he as-sured that the team will be winning the entire match that is to follow.

similarly, Pema from team yeedzin FC said that they have not played as well as they usually do. he also pointed out that more than the yesterday’s match; they had played better in coca cola league. Thus he expressed his dis-satisfaction in the man-ner that team yeedzin FC played yesterday and with the number of goal they had won. however he said that in their forthcoming matches they will play bet-ter.

The king’s cup which got its name nine years ago was called Federation Cup prior to 2004, is now final-ly back from its dormancy. This year will see the re-vival of the king’s Cup af-ter almost a decade with teams from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and nepal coming together to battle the title of the prestigious king’s Cup, perhaps the only one in the region.

There are a total of nine teams who have registered for the tournament. They are, Thimphu City Football Club and yeedzin Football Club from Bhutan, Broth-er’s union and BJmC from Bangladesh, united sikkim Football Club and mohun Bagan Football Club from India and Laxmi hyundai manang marsyangdi Club, nmB machhindra Football

Club and Three star Foot-ball Club from nepal.

The purpose of organiz-ing the event was among many others was to ease out the political clout and hopes that this interna-tional football match will prove to be a recreational event to the country and people.

Bhutan known for its gross national happiness concept and policies is the right place to promote in-ternational peace through international sports and football brings together the community. Be it whether one is cheering for the na-tion or another that one supports, it forges solidar-ity.

The tickets for the event are priced at ngultrum125 if one buys it before the match and at 150 if once gets it at the counter. The matches kicked started from yesterday and the fi-nals will be played on au-gust 11.

It was hoped that the king’s Cup can be run as an annual event every year. The organizing bod-ies are the Bhutan Football Federation and Woezer events.

after the first match be-tween the team from Bhu-tan, yeedzin FC and the Bangladesh team, aram-bagh krira shangha which was played yesterday. It will be followed by Three star FC Vs united sikkim FC today at 4.00 Pm.

an arT exhibition was held at the Voluntary artists

studio of Thimphu (VasT) which displayed the work created in a contemporary art workshop held at the studio.

Dasho karma ura at-tended the exhibition as the guest of honour.

the three-day painting workshop titled ‘Bangla-desh-Bhutan Friendship art Workshop’ was organised in collaboration with vis-iting artists Jamal ahmed

and sahid kazi from Ban-gladesh.

The participants were traditional artists from the national Institute of Zorig Chusum in Thimphu and the Trashiyangtse Insti-tute of Zorig Chusum, who were taught contemporary styles of painting.

The contemporary art workshop with traditional artists taught by VasT members will continue in VasT for the next six days, starting July 20.

the journalist 21 july 2013

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election dayvoters

primary election outcome

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general round of election

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