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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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THE PROMISE? : Lekey Dorji would be the Information and Communications Minister

FEEL CHEATED : "It is a kind of corruption to cheat the people", reflect the people

The people of Zhemgang are disgruntled with what has come out as a shock for

them that the people’s Democratic party (pDp) candidate from Bardo-Trong constituency in Zhemgang, lekey Dorji has not been elected as a Cabinet minister.

This is per se the promise made by pDp, the nominations and the speculations that lekey Dorji would be the Information and Communi-cations minister.

local government leaders in Zhemgang as a representative shared the people’s views by stat-ing the people’s voice that the pDp president and now the prime min-ister elect Tshering Tobgay had personally and verbally promised

the people a Cabinet minister dur-ing the campaigns in the primary round of election.

further, during the general round of election lekey Dorji was named as the possible minister who will represent Zhemgang, after he re-placed the primary round candi-date Sherub Wangdi.

according to people, even lekey Dorji himself had verbally said he will be one of the Cabinet ministers during the campaign period.

The Trong gup, Dorji Wangchuk told the Journalist that people of Zhemgang are of the view that if this government fails to fulfill the pledge right from day one then it raises the question of trust and reli-ability.

“It is a kind of corruption to cheat the people,” he said, reflect-ing the views and sentiments of all the people of Zhemgang.

he said there is a huge difference in being a minister and a mp. “a minister can bring in more resourc-es and developments than an mp,” he said, reiterating on how badly

| Tashi Namgyal, Thimphu

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‘BIG’ mistakeZhemgangpas: We made a

Apple Exporters to get EPC loan again

Bhutan may benefit from Solar Power| Tashi Namgyal, Thimphu:

Gross misrepresentation and disinformation:

The eneRTIa foundation from India has come to Bhutan with a vision of

promoting people to people modules for working in the en-ergy sector, specifically in the development of hydro and solar power. however, one of the national news-papers has spread a canard to the con-trary.

This has left the stakeholders at the two day hydro Vision Conclave 2013 held at the Taj Tashi ho-tel in Thimphu con-cerned as to how the gross misrepresenta-tion and disinforma-tion of this momen-tous Indo-Bhutan Joint Initiative would confuse the friendly people of Bhutan.

Talking to The Journalist, the editor in Chief, publisher and founder of the foundation, profes-sor ag Iyer said that

Sun-The greatest Nuclear power by nature:

“WhIle hydropower needs incessant running water and takes years and years

to be developed, solar power is the greatest nuclear power granted for free by mother na-ture and can be installed every-where within a short span of time,” he said.

The Secretary general further said that solar power plants does not incur recurrent costs like hydropower plants, the latter also chal-lenges developers to maintain ecological balance.

according to pro-fessor Iyer, in 2008 the installation cost of solar was at a whopping Rs. / nu 240 mn - Rs. / nu 250 mn and in 2013 it has come down to Rs. / nu 65 mn, per mW in India in the tender of national Thermal power Cor-poration ltd. (nTpC ltd.) under the Jawa-

Staying voiceless on Election Day

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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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» 27 July, 2013: His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen with the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Ministers of the Second Parliament.

27 July 2013, Tashichhodzong: his majesty The King conferred Dakyen to formally appoint the newly elected prime minister of Bhutan.

his majesty The King also conferred Dhar to formally appoint the ministers of the Cabinet.

his majesty The King offered prayers for the wellbeing of the country and the people before the guru Thongdrol in the courtyard of the Dzong.

“Nothing is not permanent in this world. Every dog has its day.

Bhutanese people, especially the

people of Zhemgang will

never forget this day

and cheating”, Zhemgangpas.

If Bhutan uses solar power, the hydro generated

electricity that is consumed domestically

could be rather exported and

therefore earn revenues

» Professor AG Iyer at the Hydro Vision Conclave 2013

» Apple export co-ordination meeting on 22 July held by BEA and the stakeholders.

| Pema Denkar, Phuentsholing:

apple exporters this year will once again receive ex-porters packaging credit

(epC) loan during apple seasons from the bank of Bhutan (BoB) unlike last year.

epC loan to the existing clients was confirmed by BoB during the apple export coordination meet-ing which was held between the exporters, Bhutan exporters asso-ciation (Bea) and relevant stake-holders on July 22 at phuentshol-ing.

Despite liquidity problem and ban on loan, the bank has decided to give loan taking into special consideration that it’s a seasonal business.

however, BoB has come up with some conditions such as where the exporters will have to submit a uniform agreement from Bea, and it will only entertain loans to ex-isting clients who has a minimum

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still unresolved| Tashi Namgyal, Thimphu:

The people as well as the Thromde Thuemes in phuent-

sholing are still question-ing the efficiency of the concerned agencies in solving the land related issues, some of which dates back to almost four decades ago.

The statements are based on 10,000 sqft of government land oc-cupied by Tashi group near the gRef canton-ment area in phuentsh-oling, with documented evidence still lying on the shelves of the Thromde office.

Records with the phuentsholing Thromde reveal that Tashi group has been occupying the land for the last 39 years without registering the land or paying lease rents.

The Thromde office af-firmed that the land has been “allotted” and “not registered”.

It dates back to 1974 when the then trade and industry minister “allot-ted” the land for construc-tion of liquified petro-leum gas (lpg) go down as storage of Druk gas to cater to gas needs for the seven western dzong-khags, namely, Thimphu, paro, Chhukha, Wang-diphodrang, punakha, haa and gasa.

lack of land is pointed out as one of the main reasons why the low in-come housing projects in phuentsholing could not be materialized.

“how can it materialize when most of the govern-ment lands are occupied by ‘some privileged’ group who are not even paying the lease,” questions the residents of phuentshol-ing.

Similarly, Damchen pe-troleum is still occupying

approximately one acre of land at Rinchending as gas station. The munici-pality and Damchen are at loggerheads concern-ing the lease rate with the municipality impos-ing commercial lease rate of nu 42 per sqft/annum while Damchen is refus-ing to budge and holding on to nu 4 per sqft/an-num.

The municipal office took over the land from the ministry of agricul-ture and forests (moaf) in 2006 after it fell under the extended city bound-ary.

Despite repeated noti-fications being issued by the municipal office, the two companies have been coming up with lame ex-cuses and so far, no prog-ress have been made in coming out with a con-crete solution.

“It is not fair to oth-ers who are using leased government land in the city boundary having to pay the commercial rate, while some privileged lot are making the authori-ties dance to their whims,” a concerned Thueme told The Journalist.

Thuemes felt that no progress is being made on the issue despite repeated deliberations during ev-ery Thromde Tshogde meetings. The issue was brought to the lime-light during the second Thromde Tshogde meet-ing in may, 2011.

meanwhile, a Thueme also questioned the credi-bility of Thromde Tshogde meetings as majority of the decisions made at the meetings were either nev-er implemented or altered without their notice.

“Raising a point dur-ing the meetings serves no purpose when it is not even implemented. only ‘we’ are made to look comical in the face

of the public,” a distorted Thueme said.

a senior citizen is “ap-prehensive” as to whether the concerned authorities in the capital are even thinking of resolving the issues. “It is common sense. The Thromde would have reported the case to the higher authorities in the capital. What are they doing?” he questioned.

however, a glimmer of hope has lately been showered upon these com-moners with his majesty the King’s Royal Kasho on the land Bill of Bhutan 2012.

“Irrespective of whether a new act is found neces-sary or not, it is my duty as the Druk gyalpo to en-sure that State land as-sets are preserved in the interest of Bhutanese cit-izens-present and future generations-so that our people’s aspiration to own land and home may be fulfilled, while their right to share in the wealth and progress of our nation is protected-for all time.”

“Thus, as a matter of principle, I, Druk gyalpo, must state that in this modern time, in a small nation where land is scarce and the value of ur-ban land continues to rise along with the possibility of ownership of land and wealth being concentrat-ed in the hands of few.” the Royal Decree reads.

Thromde Thuemes ex-pressed their gratitude to his majesty the King’s wisdom.

“With his majesty’s blessings, we are now much confident about delving deeper into land related issues in our re-spective constituencies,” a Thromde Thueme said.

meanwhile, officials from the concerned com-panies could not be con-tacted for comments.

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His Majesty tHe Druk Gyalpo conferred dakyen from the throne to the prime minister-elect and the cabinet minister-elects of the new

government yesterday.It was followed by chhawang and blessings from

his holiness the Je Khenpo, as the prime minister and cabinet ministers assumed their post officially on that auspicious day capping a celebratory and historic begin of the second democratic government in the country.

The second parliamentary election has successfully ended and the solidarity of the nation and peoples love for our great Kings and the peaceful country has grown stronger.

The parliamentary election which formally started on march 9, 2013 with the issuance of Royal Decree by his majesty the Druk gyalpo calling elections to the national Council, elected 20 out of the total 67 candidates to represent each of the 20 dzongkhags.

It was followed by the calling of elections to the national assembly with the issuance of Royal Decree on april 28.

The primary round saw four political parties, peoples Democratic party (pDp), Druk phuensum Tshogpa (DpT), Druk nyamrup Tshogpa (DnT) and Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT). and due respect and recognition for Bhutan Kuen-nyam party (BKp) who could not participate since it did not have candidates from gasa.

The primary round poll on may 31 brought back pDp and DpT to proceed to the final round of election and on general round poll day on July 13, Bhutanese electorate elected pDp as the ruling government with 32 seats and DpT as the opposition with 15 seats.

The nation responsibly fulfilled their civic duty by actively exercising their franchise where a total of 171,544 electorates voted in the national council elections and 211,018 voters and 252,485 voters participated in primary round and general round of elections, respectively.

nevertheless it is not to say that the election season was free of criticism or controversies. But it is only natural and a part of the process which the people have learnt to accept it as nothing serious.

The dust of election clamour has settled down and peace and solidarity has now found its way back into the lives of the people, with the common aim to support towards the success of the pDp government and uphold the wishes of our great King.

The nation as one would once again like to thank our monarchs who have always been the timeless symbol of leadership, unity and happiness to Bhutanese for bestowing upon us the responsibility of democracy.

and now, as the peoples Democratic party-the new government embark on a significant journey to serve the King, the nation and the people, the entire nation would like to offer their prayers and support for a successful tenure.

A new beginning: Successful end of the second parliamentary elections

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the story published in the 24th July edition of the newspaper “did not carry any truth” and was factu-ally incorrect.

Describing the forum as a successful exercise, pro-fessor Iyer said that he was personally congratulated by the economic affairs Secretary, Dasho Sonam Tshering.

“Kuensel wrote a com-pletely different story which was negative and motivat-ed. It was not responsible journalism and instead the media should be happy that eneRTIa foundation was promoting people to people relations and target-ing opening up of business avenues that will only ben-efit Bhutan and the Bhuta-nese,” he said.

emphasizing his com-ments; while providing a backdrop about the Con-clave, the Secretary gen-eral of Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), phub Tshering said that BCCI being the facilita-tor and the organizer would hold such forums only and solely for the development of the private sector in Bhu-tan.

The conclave saw pre-sentations and recommen-dations about the use and long-term benefits of both hydro and solar power sec-tor.

phub Tshering said that the forum was important, in that, solar energy can be harnessed as much as hy-dropower energy and this will also serve as an alter-native.

harlal nehru national Solar mission (JnnSm) which is extraordinary. he said that Bhutan could follow such models and develop 20, 30 or 40 mWs of solar power plants within six months.

Talking on market for so-lar power generated in Bhu-tan, he said that India has a huge market that could use this power, trading it through exchange mechanisms by signing treaties and memo-randum of understandings (moUs).

The mechanism, accord-ing to him, would not only encourage local service in-dustries in Bhutan, but also generate employment and reduce dependence on hy-dropower.

“If Bhutan uses solar power, the hydro generated electricity that is consumed domestically could be rather exported and therefore earn revenues,” he reiterated. he said that India has a peak shortfall of 80gW electricity.

professor Iyer said that they chose Bhutan for this Conclave as it is the closest neighbor and friend of India. “We want Bhutan to become an economic giant in the re-gion so that it could face big-ger countries. for that, Bhu-tan and India should come together on geo-strategic eco-nomic issues”.

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of 5 years of record with the bank. at the same time, the bank will give only 30 percent of the sanctioned amount.

on the other hand, the general secretary of Bea, Tshering Yeshi requested the bank officials to consid-er epC loan to the new ex-porters who have joined the export business recently.

he also said that Bea will verify and recommend the bank after a thorough examination because it is very important for the growth of export business.

at the same time, the bank officials also agreed to look into and examine the issue.

The loan manager from BoB, madan Rai, told the Journalist that epC is a short term loan and has high risk to the bank. “This is because epC loan is given based on their projection and new exporters upon failing to fulfill their pro-jection fails to refund the money,” he said adding that there are cases where-by the bank is still not able to track some of the export-ers who have failed to re-fund the money.

he further added that the bank has experienced such cases in the previous years when the bank had tried to help the new exporters and this is why the bank have decided to give epC loan only to the existing clients based on their record of previous performance.

however, few export-ers said that if the govern-ment wants to see growth in the export business, new exporters should be given equal advantages like old exporters.

eCp is a short-term loan availed by exporters from the financial institutions backed by collateral in or-der to make the business successful during the sea-son.

according to export-ers, they have availed an amount of 50 lakhs for ap-ple export on an average, from Bank of Bhutan over the years.

“We do pay interest and commission of 1.5 percent to the banks,” said an ex-porter adding that since the loan is for short time dura-tion it also helps the govern-ment in generating foreign currency.

While exporters could not avail epC loan for apple season last year, records also show that in the year 2011 alone, exporters have exported 3285.76 metric tons of apples whereby they generated an amount of 2,406,232 USD.

according to the export-ers, epC plays a very big role in making the business successful for exporters with

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» continued from p 1direct effect on the orchard owners.

likewise, the exporters were also informed about the terms and condition while availing epC loan.

BoB loan manager also told The Journalist that some of the exporters who had not paid back the epC loan which was availed in the previous years have affected not only the bank but the exporters as well.

he also said that the agree-ments drawn between ex-porters and importers from Bangladesh are not uniform till date, however, starting this season all the terms and condition should be men-tioned in the lC and should be uniform.

at the same time bank of-ficials informed that Bhutan exporters association and Bhutan Chamber of Com-merce and Industry (BCCI) should help the bank in get-ting back their money from those exporters who haven’t paid back the loan.

meanwhile, the floor price for apple this year is fixed at USD 600 per metric ton.

Phuentsholing: Land issues

Zhemgang needs devel-opment.

a civil servant, Dech-en Dhendup said, “I was shocked that mp lekey Dorji’s name was removed from the minister’s nomi-nation roll. I can’t under-stand what’s happening with pDp”.

another ardent ob-server however pointed out that some forces must have come into play; oth-erwise people were prom-ised a minister from Bar-do-Trong.

“Voters that side must be feeling equally betrayed as many people this side. It is not fair. pDp used him to gain more seats. party should not have promised him the berth in the first place. hopes of many are dashed literally,” he said.

he further reiterated that things are not start-ing on a happy note. “They say it was a “hard decision” but when peo-ple voted, it was also a hard decision but in the end went for the promises made by pDp”.

It is also being under-lined that Zhemgang being one of the least developed in the coun-try needed someone in power to Change and de-velop the poverty stricken dzongkhag. They felt that with due respect to senior-ity and experience, lekey Dorji must be a minister.

Zhemgangpas had never expected this from a trusted government and it is rather sad that the very first decision of the elected government has let them down.

“Where is ‘Wangtse Chirphel’, questioned norbu Wangdi from Thimphu, in view of the devolvement of power which was not taken into account. “Why two minis-ters from Trashigang and five from east, he further asked.

Yeshey Dhendup from phuentsholing feels that it is regionally unbalanced seeing that five ministers elected are from the east against only one from the Central region.

“lekey Dorji is a vigi-lant, magnificent and diligent man who is also valued in the book of vi-sion but it has become worthless for pDp,” he said.

although it is being felt that there might be rea-sons within the pDp loop about the decision, but the Khengpas however need clarifications.

The general perceptions among the Khengpas are that all of them voted des-perately for pDp and lekey Dorji “hoping for some Change”, but all they feel now was that they were cheated.

a senior civil servant said, “We are exploited again. We definitely de-serve a minister but there is none.”

The people are also of the view that not only did lekey Dorji bilk his own prospects, the Khengpas got cheated, were taken for granted, and that they now feel very dejected.

Coining lekey Dorji’s exit from Druk nyamrup Tshogpa (Dnp) and join-ing pDp as “thirst for pow-er”, people The Journalist talked to pointed out that it’s a lesson for him that he should have upheld his moral principles and be satisfied with what he had with DnT. Instead, it’s be-ing termed that lekey Dor-ji has been “intoxicated” and was played a puppet.

Some felt that there might have been some un-avoidable internal confu-sions and disagreements and expects that pDp will look into everything as they have won but only unanimously.

according to the statis-tics collected by the Jour-nalist from the relevant representatives it was found that approximately about 70 percent of the voters from Zhemgang dzongkhag was not happy with the recent result of minister elects.

meanwhile, according to the prime minister elect Tshering Tobgay’s state-ment in the recent article in Kuensel, the decision was made in accordance to the “national interest”.

“The party had more than enough candidates to choose from by looking at experience, qualification and commitment. To keep the cabinet “regionally balanced” the party had to take a hard decision,” he had stated.

With a geographical area of 2421.74 kilometers, Zhemgang dzongkhag is the least developed in the country with only 489.54 kilometers of road network as of June 2011.

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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

The Ministers-elect and the

Prime Minister-elect was

conferred Dakyen by His Majesty the

King yesterday.

8 Sunday, June 2, 2013 THE JOURNALIST

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།

“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.

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a very wonderful Birthday.Our prayers for

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

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Dorji Wangdi, Tashigang

“I feel all the ministers are ca-pable to form cabinet. If given the opportunity everyone is capable of doing the entrusted task. We can’t judge individuals capacity unless given an opportunity.

all the ministers will do well and besides most of them are ex-perienced and surely we expect good performance from them.”

Ugyen Dorji, Thimphu

“all the new elected ministers seem to be capable and evidently they are the best among those who had won the election. But I only hope that they perform their duties and responsibilities without any corruption.”

Leki Dorji, Thimphu

“I feel it would have been bet-ter if the education minister was ngeema Sangay Tshempo since he had been with the education ministry for 17 years. But when it comes to other ministers I feel they will do just fine.”

Tshering Dorji, Lhentse

“of all the new elects I am most particularly satisfied with the de-cision of Yeshey Dorji as the min-ister for agriculture and forestry ministers. There couldn’t have been better candidate than him to take the position since he will un-derstand the plans and programs of the ministry for he had been under the ministry as senior plan-ning officer.”

Chencho Dema, Paro

“I feel that aum Dorji Choden is the right person to be the min-

ister for ministry of works and human settlements. It comple-ments her profession given the fact that she was the first woman engineer in the coun-try.

I am very happy and feel privileged to finally see a woman minister. She will be an encouragement and an in-spiring example to the entire woman in the country.”

Namgyal Chencho, Thimphu

“I can see that all the min-isters elected are experienced and capable to hold the posi-tion of the cabinet. now I am hoping that Bhutan will see a strong democracy and gov-ernment. I want to wish them well as they assume their post to serve the people.”

Rinchen Namgyel, Wangdue

“It is the common nature of people to be critical and judg-mental instead of appreciating the leadership especially when it is someone who is capable and worthy of the placement.

So for me I feel that all the new minster elects are rightly decided for and will bring the changes the nation is hoping for.”

Wangmo, Paro

“I personally feel that the newly elected ministers are experienced and ready to take over the post since I can see that they have profile related to what the ministry might re-quire from them.

But some of them have conflicting professional back-ground as opposed to the min-isterial post they have been offered. When such is the cir-cumstances I fear that their performance and productivity might be held back.”

Tshering Tashi, Thimphu

“We have now voted for change and the candidates from the pDp who will be our

minister will do well. all of them appear to be capable and besides when it comes to them as responsibilities they will ensure that their duties are delivered dependably and efficiently.

and this time the entire ministers are the candidates chosen by people and as a minister they will also work in the interest of the people.”

Duptho Wangchuk, Tashigang

“Tandin Wangchuk, the minister for health was not decided upon wisely for he has a professional back-ground which is completely incompatible with the min-istry he has been made re-sponsible to administer.

Before joining politics, the health minister was a con-tractor and people’s represen-tative (chimi) while health ministry calls for someone who knows a thing or two about biological issues.

So in the first few months he might face some challeng-es which will in turn affect his performance in adminis-tration.”

Tashi Jamtsho, Phuntsholing

“I feel that there is no right or wrong choice. all of them being very new to the posi-tion would find it difficult and need some time getting used to it. and the challenge will be even more for those elected ministers who have not even served the director post.”

Tshering Tenzin, Zhemgang

“I am very disappointed with the result. everyone here in Zhemgang was ex-pecting a minister so I don’t want to comment as to if the choice of ministers and their ministries were allocated ap-propriately or not.”

the new Cabinet Minister

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Peoples view on:

| Jigme Thugten, Thimphu:

tHe Most recent meeting which was held on July 14, with the plan to change the

parking, passengers, route and timing for city buses has left many private city bus operators on the rocks.

The senior regional transport officer, from the Road Safety and Transport authority (RSTa) after having teamed up with the traffic police and the Thimphu Thomde at the meeting decided that the city buses operating out of Thim-phu city should be shifted from the existing area to the new identified area.

The change was initiated in or-der to bring the problem of traffic congestion to an end which had been determined after innumer-able attempts made by RSTa and its stake holders.

In total, six buses of which two owned by gembo and three owned by C.B. lama and one Bhutan post bus plying towards Royal Thim-phu College will be the buses that will have to comply by the recent changes.

The buses plying towards Kabi-sa and Dodena in Dechenchooling should be parked on the left hand side of the road and the buses ply-ing towards Khasadrapchu, Royal Thimphu College and Jimena are to be parked on the right hand side of the road. But the buses op-erating within the city boundary will remain to be stationed at the present city bus terminal at the Changlam.

however the owners of lama Transport and Bumpa Transport were against the decision on the ground that they might lose the passengers as the station where they are being sent is slightly far. and they were in the view that the distance might hamper in ren-dering the services to the general public.

Despite the several efforts made by RSTa on creating awareness among the passengers, where medias has been used to put the messages across the general pub-lic, and the cars seen on the new area will be removed by the Traffic police before the commencement of the operation of the buses, but the entire decision however has become more than the Chinese arithmetic for the private bus op-erators.

and if the arrangement does not work then the joint commit-tee will look into the matter and review the decision based on the feed backs collected from the gen-eral public, where they were seen still opposed to the idea.

“We feel like now we will be out

of the league as the area where we are asked to station is far away. It will require for the passengers to walk and will be a problem espe-cially for the old aged people when it buckets down,” said the owners of the private bus operators.

again the supplemental issue over the problem of moving from pillar to post is that the ten stand-ing passengers will no longer be al-lowed for the city buses including the two privately owned buses.

at first there was a gentleman’s agreement but later on after hav-ing conducted the 12th Sector co-ordination meeting, it was decided that the 10 standing passengers are to be discontinued on the safety grounds and the passengers would be allowed to board onto the buses only as per their manufacturing capacities.

If the passenger lodge a com-plaint on the issue then RSTa along with the traffic police would be taking the blame or would re-spond accordingly with the pub-lic.

few passengers were on the oth-er hand found to be happy on can-celing the standing passengers, for the reason that there is no comfort inside the buses where there are lots of standing passengers.

moreover it becomes difficult for both the passengers and conduc-tors to collect and return back the change when there is congestion of passengers in the buses.

But, quite a number of students are against the issue as they feel that at least around 10 to 15 pas-sengers should be allowed on deck standing so they will not become late while commuting to and back from school.

“We have come up with such changes firstly, in order to give pleasure to the von voyages and secondly, for the safety measures as we cannot soothsay dicey mis-haps,” said the director general of RSTa.

he added that with regards to their decision on identifying the new parking lot, it is mainly to clean up the traffic congestion at the present city bus terminal since quite frequently the traffic gets jammed in the Changlam area be-cause of excess automobile.

The parking station of the iden-tified buses operating beyond the city will be relocated from the current city bus terminal located nearby the Changlingmithang national football stadium on the Changlam to the new area which is to be between the united nations development program’s (UnDp) office and Jigme losel primary School at Chubachu, with effect from august 1 on a trial basis.

Changes in city bus location leave the private operators in lurch

| Views collected by Dechen Dolkar

| Tashi Namgay

tHe new found question in peo-ples mind lately is as to how the opposition party, Druk phuensum

Tshogpa (DpT) should function in keep-ing a check and balance of the parlia-ment, while still maintaining the sanc-tity of the Constitution.

as per the constitution of the King-dom of Bhutan, article 18, the opposi-tion party is required to play a construc-tive role to ensure that the government and the ruling party function in accor-dance with the provisions of the consti-tution.

In addition they should provide good governance and strive to promote the national interest and fulfill the aspira-tions of the people.

however the people have their own view and expectation from DpT as the new opposition party.

a people’s Democratic party (pDp) supporter said that while giving a dig-nified opposition the members of the opposition party should work together.

“I don’t want to see their party inter-ests in the parliament in terms of party aspiration pledges,” he said, reminding the nation that the parliament “con-sists of the ruling government, the op-position, the national council and the king.”

a political observer pointed out that opposition leader (ol) was always viewed by the people as to be for all time opposing the government even when it was not the case, when in real-ity he had differed only when he knew that the government was not right.

But if the ol speaks in both the situ-ation, by showing appreciation when government does something good to benefit the Tsa Wa Sum and oppose only when they see that the govern-ment is not on the right track, then he feels that opposition will be considered doing the job right.

a Thimphu resident pointed out that running a nation is not as easy as it seems. “most people are not even able to run their own family or their own offices and forget about running a na-tion” he said. So people should respect and support them.

“The opposition is a relaxing job which will allow them enough time to spend with one’s family, friends and enjoy a healthy happy life after,” he added.

Some feel that the achievements of the first democratically elected govern-ment were many and now as the oppo-sition, DpT will contribute to the nation building even better.

a civil servant, Tilak pokhrel shared that the role of opposition is vital in de-mocracy, vital in the sense to right track the government and during decision making in parliament.

a private sector employee from

phuentsholing said that it all boils down to the nature of proposal. “But if the opposition party plays dirty, every-thing will be directly against the nation directly,” he added.

another view is that recognition of positive opportunities while as the op-position is must. any party as a opposi-tion in a democratic nation will have the possibility and opportunity to gain trust form people that will work in favor of them in future elections.

It was added that the opposition’s role is not only to oppose but if the deci-sion of the government is correct then to support and work together.

“It could also be either way,” said an-other, reiterating that both the ruling as well as the opposition parties must work together and correct each other.

a businessman and an ardent po-litical analyst, Cheku Dukpa said that they should exercise their right to object in case mistakes are made by the ruling party.

“But please remember one thing, they should function more on the ba-sis of comradeship,” he said, which was not the case from the first elected gov-ernment.

“They were simply defending each other when each should have in point of fact utilized and stand by their strengths,” he added.

he said, “When you see the constitu-tion of Bhutan it says opposition party will give dignified opposition, so this is what we are expecting from DpT”.

however, the name factor has also created confusion at the people’s level, which is of the thought that the Ruling party will rule while the opposition will go on opposing whatever the ruling party does.

he added, “Today someone is pDp, some are DpT, someone is DnT and someone is DCT.” But, “weren’t we one nation one people, where is this con-cept?” he question with the hope that it will not be the case as the leaders as-sume their responsibilities.

most people the Journalist inter-viewed said that the ruling and opposi-tion should erase those divisions from the heart of the innocent Bhutanese people.

a corporate employee said, “Some people abort the other parties even more than their arch rivals. Can oppo-sition reverse it? Instead in their action of opposing, I fear the hatred may be further deepened. If this trend follows, I see a dark future waiting ahead. I fear myself being so pessimistic but I have to”.

meanwhile, the attitudes and pub-lic relations of the politicians are also highlighted by the voters.

“The politicians have to be very care-ful these days,” reminded a taxi driver from paro. “every move of theirs is be-ing watched by people so closely.”

Role of opposition: Peoples expectation

| Dechen Dolkar

tHe op-position l e a d e r

elect of Druk p h u e n s u m T s h o g p a (DpT) is Dr. pema

gyamtsho, candidate from Choekor-Tang Constituency in Bumthang who was unan-imously elected in the 15 member opposition party.

according to DpT, the reason for his elect is attrib-uted to his vast experience in different fields, for having served in the civil service for so long and also because of work portfolios under inter-national organizations.

however, the main reason cited was the agility of the age that the former agricul-ture minister holds. DpT be-lieves that pema gyamtsho being young and agile would take the party further in the long run.

“There is no election rule as such to elect the oppo-sition leader and it solely depends up the party mem-bers as to who shall be the capable ol,” said Sherub Zangpo, media focal person of the election Commission of Bhutan.

In response the newly elect-ed opposition leader people shared their views with the Journalist.

Ugyen Dorji from Thim-phu said that he expected Dr. pema gyamtsho to be the ol because he feels that DpT wanted to groom their party for next election.

he also shared his view that former prime minister will be not able to partici-pate in 2018 election with his age so someone young with the ability to lead the party had to take the position from then on.

But Tashi namgyal from Zhaemgang had expected ol to be the former prime minis-ter as he was the party presi-dent. But most importantly it is because he is the wisest op-position member with a vast knowledge on the system of democracy.

“party president, Jigmi Yoezer Thinley deserves to be the ol but again because of his wisdom, he took a far-sighted and long term vision

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lily wangchhuk, presi-dent Druk Chir-wang tshogpa, has yesterday ex-tended their heartfelt

felicitation to the Hon’ble lyonchhen and the newly elected cabinet ministers.

"as much as there are chal-lenges, the ruling government also has the opportunity to set a new precedent of democratic leadership and governance – one that truly rests on the party’s philosophy of Wangtse Chhirpel. We are con-fident that the pDp government will take our nation forward in the next five years." the felicitation message reads.

"Druk Chirwang Tshogpa would like to take this opportunity to ex-tend our wholehearted support to the ruling government. as a voice of a section of Bhutanese popula-tion, Druk Chirwang Tshogpa will actively participate in the socio-political life of the nation, and will make concerted efforts to ensure that the interest and wellbeing of all sections of Bhutanese people are addressed. and to this end, we offer our fullest cooperation and assistance to the ruling govern-ment", it read.

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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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successful term and peaceful tenure in

taking forward our nation to a new era.

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would like to congratulate the

Ruling Government and Opposition Party

for winning the 2nd Parliamentary Election and forming the new Government.

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We heartily wish the new Government successful term and peaceful tenure in taking forward our nation to a new era.

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would like to join the whole Nation to extend our warmest Congratulations to the

New Ruling Government and Opposition Party.

We heartily wish the New Government successful term and peaceful tenure in serving the Nation and

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National Council of Bhutanའུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ེ།

The National Council of Bhutan would like to congratulate HE Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay and the elected members of the Peoples Democratic Party for the landslide win in the Second National Assembly elections.

We would also congratulate HE (Dr.) Pema Gyamtsho, the newly appointed leader of the opposition, and the elected members of the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa.

It is our sincere hope that the Government and the Opposition would work together seamlessly to serve the Tsa-Wa-Sum thereby leading to unprecedented peace, happiness and prosperity in the Kingdom.

for the country and has given the op-portunity to a much younger and ex-perienced candidate,” he said.

he expressed his satisfaction with the decision because Jigmi Yoezer Thinley will always be the final link between the opposition and the rul-ing party as he will be an advisor to the ol.

however Kinzang norbu from pema gatshel said that Dr. pema gyamtsho having served as the minister of agri-culture and forestry he will be more than capable to assume the post as an opposition leader.

But Kinley Tshering elaborated say-ing that to be an opposition leader is not an easy job as it requires more ex-perience and has to shoulder greater responsibilities than the prime min-ister.

he admitted that he expected the party president, Jigmi Yoezer Thinley as the ol and was the general belief of the people as he was considered the most experienced and capable candi-date.

Dawa Zangpo a government em-ployee said that he expected Dr. pema gyamtsho as the new ol taking into consideration the final and last term for the senior ministers.

he also expressed that Dr. pema gyamtsho is a true leader and pos-sess good personality adding that his highest qualification and his right age made the the most deserving can-didate.

however karma Yangzom a trainee said that she was expecting former prime minister to be the ol, given that he is a perfectionist in statesman-

ship and has answers to everything.She also added that he being the

most senior party member and be-ing groomed by none other than his majesty the fourth Druk gyalpo would have proved essential and vi-tal to keep a good check and balance in whatever the ruling government executes.

But still Dr. pema gyamtsho is also a capable person for having served in different post and with enough experience to assume his role effi-ciently.

Karma Dorji a civil servant said that the entire DpT candidates were competent and irrespective of who-ever comes as opposition leader they will still be able to resourcefully ex-ecute their responsibility and lead the party.

“Keeping in mind the strength and experience of the party I expect great performance from DpT and ol Dr. pema gyamtsho,” he said.


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8th SAYEN Regional meet| Karma Dema, Thimphu:

tHe tHree Day SaYen regional meet which was held in the capital to un-

derstand how youths are work-ing on the environment and sustainable development ended on July 26.

30 youths from south asian countries along with the re-source persons from United na-tions environment programme (Unep), the South asian Youth environment network (SaYen) secretariat and the representa-tive from the Bayer attended the conference.

The theme of the conference was, “Youth Stake on post Rio +20 and the post- 2015 Devel-opment agenda”.

The young leaders from South asian countries were gatherd with the aim to foster cooperation, exchange and dis-cussion among them and also strengthen their capacity on the themes and the issues related to post Rio+20 and the post -2015 Development agenda.

Besides, the conference also provided a forum to exchange ideas and experiences among the participants. It allowed dis-cussions on youth environmen-tal projects and activities in ad-dition to developing the SaYen work plan for 2013 and 2014.

madhavi, programme di-rector of DeSD and Youth pro-

grams from India said that the conference is specifically fo-cused on the concerns of the re-gion, in terms of environment and sustainability on how one is affected and can play a role in decision making.

Similarly, Satwant Kaur, re-gional information officer said, “I think this is an important platform for young people. They are the future leader of the country. and program like this, is an opportunity to meet young people of their own country and from other countries and see how each individual is dealing with the environment. Besides they also learn about other cultures and enjoy the opportunity to work with different people from dif-ferent countries.”

In addition it works as a good learning experience and an op-portunity to develop leadership skills.

all the youth participants were honored to be a part of the program towards the preserva-tion and promotion of the envi-ronment.

They were of the view that to sustain and conserve en-vironment it is a very im-portant duty for them as the future generations. “I think through such programs we can make the Bhutanese concerned about the impor-tance of environment and its conservation,” said one of the youths and ultimately benefit the world at large.














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༉ ཁ་ཙ་ཁ་ཉིནམ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡༨ གི་ཚེ་ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ཀྱི་ རིན་བསྡུར་འགོ་བཙུགསཔ་ད་ ཀེ་ཇི་རེ་ལུ་ གོང་ཚད་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ འབུམ ༦ དང་ སྟོང་ཕྲག ༨༥ རེ་ ཐོབ་མི་དེ་ ད་ཚུན་གྱི་བར་ན་ མཐོ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིན་པས།དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ བཙོང་མི་ཚུ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ དུས་ཅི་ གོང་ཚད་དེ་ཅིག་ཐོབ་མི་དེ་ ན་ཧིང་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ ཕྱད་ཀ་ལས་བརྒལ་མེདཔ་ལས་ ཁོང་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ གོང་ཚད་དེ་ སེམས་དང་ལྡན་ཏོག་ཏོ་ཅིག་མེད་པར་ བློ་ཕམ་ཡང་བྱུང་རུང་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་གཞན་ཚུ་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ དྲགས་ཤོས་སྦེ་ བཞག་དགོ་ཟེར་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།མདང ་ཞག ་ཁམས ་ ཅིག ་ཁར་ དུས་ཅིའི་ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ཀྱི་ རིན་བསྡུར་དེ་ཡང་ ཆོས་འཁོར་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་སྦེ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ཚུ་ རྫོང་ཁག་དེ་གི་ རྒེད་འོག་ ༣ གྱི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ བསྡུ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་

དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་གྱི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ།

༉ སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷ་འདི་ མི་རིགས་ཀྱིས་གཙོ་པའི་ འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་ཆ་མཉམ་འབྱུང་བ་ ༤ ལས་ གྲུབ་པའི་ ཤ་ཁྲག་གི་ཕུང་པོ་ལུ་ སྨན་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ ནད་ལས་འགྲོལ་ཐབས་ མཛད་མི་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ལས་ དུས་དང་རྣམ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་ གསོལཝ་བཏབ་པ་ཅིན་ སྐྱབས་མགོན་མཛད་ནིཨིན་པས།དེ་ཡང་ ཤར་རི་བོ་སྤོས་ངད་ལྡན་དང་ ལྷོ་རི་བོ་འབིགས་བྱེད་ ནུབ་རི་བོ་མ་ལ་ཡ་ དེ་་ལས་ བྱང་རི་བོ་གངས་ཅན་ ༤ ལུ་ དྲང་སྲོང་གི་

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དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ཀྱི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དེ་ བུམ་ཐང་གི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལུ་ འོངས་འབབ་གཙོ་བོ་ཅིག་ཨིན་པས།དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་བསྡུ་མི་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ སླབ་མི་ནང་ དུས་ཅི་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་ཀྱི་ ཐོན་ཤུགས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཅིག་ མིན་འདུག་ཟེར་ ཨིནམ་མ་ཚད་ སྤུས་ཚད་ཡང་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཅིག་མེདཔ་ལས་ གོང་ཚད་ཡང་ ཁོང་རང་གིས་ མནོ་དོ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་རང་ འཐོབ་མ་ཚུགས་ཟེར་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས། བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ སོ་ནམ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ དུས་ཅི་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་གི་ གོང་ཚད་མར་ཕབ་འགྱོ་དགོ་མི་འདི་ཡང་ སྤུས་ཚད་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་འོང་ཟེར་ བཤདཔ་ཨིནམ་ད་ དུས་ཅི་ལས་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་རིན་བསྡུར་གྱི་འབད་ནི་འདི་ཡང་ རྒེད་འོག་ཚུ་ནང་ རྩིས་སྤྲོད་ཅིག་ཟེར་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་འཐུ་མི་ མང་སུ་ཐོན་དོ་ལས་ འབུབ་འདི་ ཉུང་སུ་ཉུང་སུ་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ལ་མཐོ་སར་སྡོད་མི་ མི་སེར་ཚུ་གི་སེམས་ཁར་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡང་ སྦོམ་ལང་དགོཔ་ ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

Tashi Delek to both the parties.

The Board, Management and the Employees of ‘PENDEN CEMENT AUTHORITY LIMITED’

is honoured to felicitate His Excellency, Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay,

The Prime Minister of Bhutan, all the Cabinet Ministers and the Elected Members of Parliament of the

People’s Democratic Party for their success in the 2nd Parliamentary Elections.

We look forward to an era of peace, stability and prosperity under the stewardship of People’s Democratic Party.

At the same time, we are equally honoured to felicitate the Leader of opposition, His Excellency, Lyonpo/Dr. Pema Gyamtsho

and the Elected members of Parliament of the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa

for assuming the role of the Opposition Party.

We are confident that Druk Phuensum Tshogpa as the Opposition party will strive to provide the country and the people with a responsible opposition party.

Penden Cement Authority Limited

གནས་ སྨན་གྱི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པ་ རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་ ༥ ལས་གྲུབ་པའི་ གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་གི་སྦུག་ན་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་དེ་ བསྐལ་པ་གྲངས་མེད་པའི་ ཧེ་མ་ སེམས་ཅན་ཆ་མཉམ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ སྐྱབས་མགོན་མཛད་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་པས།དེ་སྦེ་ཨིན་མི་དེ་ཡང་ མཚན་པད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ཏེ་ བདག་འདྲ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག བཻ་ཌཱར་འོད་ཀྱིས་མུན་པ་སེལ་བཅུག་ཅིག ཤེས་རབ་ཐབས་ཀྱིས་ཡོ་བྱད་ཟད་མི་ཤེས་པར་ཐོབ་བཅུག་ཅིག སྡོམ་པ་ ༣ མ་ཉམས་པར་སྲུང་སྟེ་ ངན་སོང་དང་ བྲལ་བཅུག་ཅིག ནད་ཀྱིས་བཏབ་མི་ཚུ་ ནད་མེད་པར་ ཡོ་བྱད་འཕེལ་བཅུག་ཅིག བུད་མེད་ སྐྱོན་གྱིས་གཟིར་མི་ཚུ་ སྐྱོན་དང་བྲལ་ཏེ་ སྐྱེས་པའི་དབང་པོ་ཐོབ་བཅུག་ཅིག ལྟ་བ་ངན་པ་ཚུ་ ཡང་དག་པའི་ ལྟ་བ་གིས་ སྦྱངས་བཅུག་ཅིག རྒྱལཔོ་གིས་

ཁྲིམས་བཏང་མི་ཚུ་ གནོད་པཀུན་ལས་ མཐར་བཅུག་ཅིག ལྟོཝ་བཀྱེ་མི་ཚུ་ ཆོས་དང་འབྱོར་པའི་ཁ་ཟས་ཐོབ་བཅུག་ཅིག གྱང་མི་ཚུ་ ཚ་བའི་གོ་ལ་ཐོབ་བཅུག་ཅིག་ཟེར་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ ༡༢ བཏབ་པའི་མཐུ་ལས་ སྐུ་མདོག་སྔོན་པོ་ཞལ་གཅིག་ ཕྱག་གཉིས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལུ་ ད་ལྟོ་ཡང་ དངོས་སུ་སྦེ་ མཇལ་ནི་ཡོད་དོ་བཟུམ་ སྐུའི་རྣམ་པ་ལུ་ བཞུགས་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་གི་ནང་ལས་ སྨན་བླ་གཙོ་འཁོར་ ༣ ཕོ་

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཁ་ཙ་སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༧ ལུ་ འུག་གི་བློན་ཆེན་གསརཔ་དང་ ལྷན་ཁག་༡༠ གི་བློན་པོ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་ལེགས་དར་དང་ དཔའ་རྟགས་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ཡང་ འུག་གི་ བློན་ཆེན་འདི་ མི་རྗེ་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་དང་ ཞབས་ཏོག་བློན་པོ་ རྡོ་རྗེ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་ བསྟན་

རྒྱས་བློན་པོ་ ནོར་བུ་དབང་ཕྱུག་དང་ དངུལ་རྩིས་བློན་པོ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ གསོ་བའི་བློན་པོ་ རྟ་མགྲིན་དབང་ཕྱུག་དང་ བརྒྱུད་འབྲེལ་བློན་ཌི་ཨེན་གདུང་རྒྱལ་རྒྱལ་ ས་ནམས་བློན་པོ་ ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་ ཤེས་རིག་བློན་པོ་སྨིན་མོ་འུག་པ་ དེ་ལས་ ནང་སྲིད་བློན་པོ་ དམ་ཆོས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་བློན་པོ་འདི་ རིག་འཛིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚུ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

བློན་ཆེན་དང་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ བློན་པོ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་ལེགས་དར་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

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དང་ བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་སོར་འབད་འབདཝ།

འུག་གི་རྒེད་འོག་ ༢༠༥ དང་ རྒཔོ་ཚུ་གི་

འུག་གི་རྒཔོ་དང་ དམངས་མི་ རྒེད་འོག་བདག་སྐྱོང་ཚུ་གི་རང་དོན་དང་ རྒེད་འོག་ཡིག་ཚང་གི་ བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ།

རྒེད་འོག་དང་ མི་ེ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ལམ་ ཤེས་རིག་ གནམ་གཤིག་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་དང་ གསོ་བ་ དེ་ལས་ ལས་འགུལ་ཚུ་གི་སྐོར།རྒེད་འོག་ནང་གནས་ཀྱི་སྐོར།རྒེད་འོག་ནང་འཁོད་བལྟ་བཤལ།རྒེད་འོག་དང་ རྒཔོ་གི་དཔར་རིགས་ཚུ་གཟིགས་ཚུགས།

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BORDER ROADS ORGANISATIONAppendix ‘A’ to HQ 19 BRTF letter No 8250 / 07/E8 dated 20 Jul 13

NOTICE INVITING TENDER

(NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING)

1. Commander, 19BRTF, invites Tender from the eligible contractors for the following works:-

Particulars of work Cost/ Time of work Details of tender documents

SUPPLY AND STACKING OF STONE CHIPS 26.50 MM, STONE CHIPS 13.20 MM, STONE CHIPS 6.70 MM AND STONE DUST FOR DBM AND AC WORKS AT KM 106 ON P-T ROAD (HMP LOCATION) UNDER 19 BRTF ROAD SECTOR OF PROJECT DANTAK BHUTAN

(a) Cost : Rs 3.70 Lacs

(b) Period of Completion : 60 days

(c) Earnest Money : Rs 7,400.00

(a) Cost of Tender : Rs 300/-

(b) Availability on or after : 17 Aug 2013

(c) Submission : 07 Sep 2013 (1100 Hrs BST)

Note:- Full notice of tender, any change in above details, tender document (including eligibility criteria) and other details may be obtained from BRO web site www.bro.govt.in for any queries, please contact on telephone 009755 252228 and Fax 009755 252229

(Deepanshu Baloonie) Capt SW For Commander

NPPF/HRMD-07/ July 22, 2013

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

The National Pension and Provident Fund, Thimphu, is pleased to announce the following vacancy:

PostNo. of Slot

Qualification/ Experience Salary Employment Type

Site Engineer 1 Diploma in Civil with 1- 2 years experience in building Construction.

Nu. 20,000/- per month (Negotiable based on work experience).

Contract for 2 years and renewable.

Interested candidates between 18 and 40 years of age may submit their applications (www.nppf.org.bt for Employment Application Form), to the HRD at Head Office, Thimphu, latest by 7 August 2013 along with the following documents:

Copies of Academic & Training Certificates

A copy of Citizenship ID Card

A copy of Medical Fitness Certificate

Security Clearance Certificate approval reference

No Objection Certificate from the employer (in case of in-service candidate)

Any other documents and testimonials as may be applicable to the post.

Shortlisted applicants shall be contacted for interview during which the above documents should be presented in original, and the NPPF shall have the right not to recruit any candidate.

Contact HRD at 324140 (extension 136) during office hours for more information.

Chief Executive Officer

NATIONAL PENSION & PROVIDENT FUNDTHIMPHU: BHUTAN

བྲང་ལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པའི་སྦུག་ན་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་ སྐུ་མདོག་ཧོནམོ་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་ལུ་ ཞབས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྐྱིལ་ཀྲུང་དང་ ཕྱག་གཡས་པ་ལུ་ ཨ་རུ་ར་དང་ གཡོན་ལུ་ལྷུང་བཟེད་བསྣམས་ཏེ་ ཆོས་གོས་ རྣམ་ ༣ བཞེས་ཏེ་བཞུགས་པའི་ གཡས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཉི་མ་བཟུམ་ སྐུ་མདོག་དམར་སེར་ ཞལ་ ༡ ཕྱག་ ༢ པ་གཡས་མཆོག་སྦྱིན་དང་ གཡོན་པད་སྡོང་གིསྟེང་ལུ་ ཉི་མ་བསྣམས་པ་ གཡོན་གྱི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཟླ་བ་བཟུམ་ སྐུ་མདོག་དཀར་པོ་ ཞལ་ ༡ ཕྱག་ ༢ པ་ གཡས་མཆོག་སྦྱིན་དང་ གཡོན་པད་སྡོང་གི་སྟེང་དུ་ ཟླ་བ་བསྣམས་ཏེ་ རྒྱལ་སྲས་རྣམ་ ༢ སྟོད་གཡོགས་དང་ རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱན་གྱི་བརྒྱན་ཏེ་ ཞབས་ ༢ བཞེངས་སྟབས་ཀྱི་ཚུ་ལུ་ དུས་ནམ་ཡང་ འབྲས་མེད་དུ་བཞུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ལྷག་པར་དུ་ སྨན་བླ་མཆེད་ ༧ དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ རང་སོའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ་ལས་ ཕོ་བྲང་ལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པའི་སྦུག་ན་ སེངྒེའི་ཁྲིས་བཏེགས་པའི་ ཟླ་བའི་དགན་གྱི་ཁར་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་ སྐུ་མདོག་སྔོན་པོ་ གཡས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ སྐུ་མདོག་དཀར་དམར་ གཡོན་ལུ་ མངོན་མཁྱེན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ སྐུ་མདོག་དཀར་པོ་ ཤར་ལུ་གསེར་བཟང་ སྐུ་མདོག་སེར་པོ་ ལྷོ་ལུ་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་ལྷ་མོ་ སྐུ་མདོག་སེལ་པོ་ ནུབ་ལུ་ མྱ་ངན་མེད་མཆོག་ སྐུ་མདོག་དམར་སྐྱ་ བྱང་ལུ་མཚན་ལེགས་ སྐུ་མདོག་སེར་པོ་ དེ་ཚུ་ཆ་མཉམ་ ཞལ་ ༡ ཕྱག་ ༢ པ་ ཆོས་གོས་རྣམ་ ༣ བཞེས་ཏེ་ ཞབས་སྐྱིལ་ཀྲུང་འབད་ བཞུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནོ།

དེ་བཟུམ་མའི་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་ཚུ་ལུ་ དྭངས་བ་དང་ དད་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ གསོལཝ་བཏབ་སྟེ་ སྨན་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་པ་ཅིན་ ཕན་ཡོན་ཡང་ ནད་རིགས་བཞིབརྒྱ་རྩ་བཟིཚུ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཏེ་ ཚེ་རིང་བ་ ལོངས་སྤྱོད་འཕེལ་བ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ཕན་ཡོན་ བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

| Usha Drukpa, Thimphu:

tHis year in Bhutan, the global tiger

day will be ob-served in norbuling middle Secondary School, Sershong geog un-der gelephu Drungkhag in Sarpang Dzongkhag with the theme, “empow-ering local Communities for Tiger Conservation”. The day will be celebrated with local communities, school children, teachers, monks, business commu-nity, and heads of institu-tions, Indian counterparts and multi-profile dignitar-ies, according to Sangay Dorji, the focal person for national tiger conservation program.

he said that the program for the event will include cultural programs by the non formal education (nfe) and school children, inter-school art and skit compe-tition along with display of exhibits on tiger conserva-tion and related activities.

every year July 29 is ob-served as the global Tiger Day. The global Tiger Day was declared in year 2010 by 13 tiger range countries at the global Tiger Sum-mit in St. petersburg, Rus-sia, said pushkar Chhetri, the communication officer, world wide fund for nature (WWf).

The goal of the tiger day is to raise awareness and garner public support for ti-ger conservation worldwide. The department of forests and park services under the ministry of agriculture and forests will join tiger range country governments and the international tiger conservation community worldwide in observing the global Tiger Day.

It is also to promote a global system for protecting the natural habitat of tigers and to raise public aware-ness and support for tiger conservation issues. and further with the expecta-tion that the communities will understand the impor-tance of tiger conservation because it is mutually ben-eficial in the long run. If ti-gers are conserved success-fully, it would also indicate that the ecology is healthy.

In simple the event is basically to try and bring about harmony through ed-ucational awareness cam-paigns and alternative live-lihood programs, he said. The towering mountains draped and garbed in broa-

dleaved oak for-est, providing a “safe haven” to the big cat, Bhu-tan is definitely a better habitat for tigers be-

cause of the forest cover. The main threats faced by the tigers are poaching and habitat degradation due to infrastructural development. however WWf has been try-ing to mitigate these threats through anti-poaching proj-ect in collaboration with the wildlife conservation divi-sion of the department of forest and park services.

They are also exploring and experimenting with live-stock insurance schemes.

These apart, WWf have also been involved in re-search activities that are directed towards environ-mental impact assessments to make sure critical tiger habitats are safe from devel-opmental activities.

Bhutan’s conservation philosophy is unique, in the sense that there are people living within the protected areas. hence, it becomes important for them to work with and sensitize commu-nities on conservation of ti-gers, he shared.

The program is also, indi-rectly, intended to highlight one of the most important goals of the WWf’s Tigers alive Initiative (based in malaysia) which is to double the number of tigers glob-ally from 3,200 to 6,400 by the year 2022 as per push-kar Chhetri.

he added that the tiger species which is found in Bhutan is the Royal Bengal Tiger. Since Bhutan has not yet conducted a national tiger survey yet, it is not ex-actly known as to where to find the tigers.

however, based on what-ever little evidences that are there, Tigers in Bhutan are found in some of the south-ern protected areas and some of the northern pro-tected area Complex (under the Bhutan Biological Corri-dor Complex).

There also have been re-ports of tigers being found in the Botanical garden cur-rently Bhutan has about 150 to 200 tigers.

The financial support for the event will be provided by the WWf-Bhutan program, Wildlife Trust of India and International fund for ani-mal Welfare (WTI/IfaW), Bhutan Trust fund for en-vironmental Conservation and Royal government of Bhutan.

Global Tiger Day:

Empowering local communities for Tiger Conservation

World Hepatitis day:

It is hepatitis. Know it. Confront it.

worlD Hepatitis Day is marked every year, today on July 28 and to

mark the day the Karma Dema, a reporter with the Journalist had an exclusive interview with Dr mahrukh getshen, Transfu-sion medicine Specialist of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck national refer-ral hospital.

Q. What is hepatitis and what the theme this year?

Ans. The theme declared by Who for 2013 is ’It is hepatitis. Know it. Confront it.’

It the most commonly con-tracted and a major public health problem in developing countries. It is one of the com-municable diseases contributing as a risk factor for development of non-communicable, chronic illnesses such as cancer, cirrhosis and liver failure.

Q. what is the message on the day?

Ans. The message to mem-ber states through this theme is to move step forward, that is working from awareness strate-gies towards commitment and action oriented through preven-tion and Control strategies to deal with this increasing disease burden.

Q. what has been done to address cases related to hepatitis?

Ans. all newborns are being vaccinated for hep B, so also are all health workers, spouses of those individuals infected with hep B are being manda-tory vaccinated against hep B presently. Universal screening of all donated blood units is car-ried out by all blood banks in the country.

all chronically infected hep B and C patients are being routinely screened for signs of cirrhosis, liver failure or liver cancer and few treated with an-tiviral therapy if found indicated so also symptomatic, pallia-tive management is provided by all major health care facilities in the country.

Q. what are the different types of hepatitis?’

Ans. Viral hepatitis’ is caused by 4 different viruses, namely a, B, C & e and so called as hepa-titis a, hepatitis B etc depending on the virus causing it.

They can be acute or chronic in nature.

Q. How it is contracted?

Ans. hepatitis a and e are usu-ally contracted through contam-inated water or food, prevalent where personal hygiene and habits are poor.

hepatitis B and C are trans-

mitted through infected body fluids through unhealthy, high risk behaviors and life styles such as unprotected sex, sharing needles by individuals practicing intravenous drug abuse, use of unsterilized sharps for tattooing, body piercing, or it can be trans-mitted from infected mother to child and also through transfu-sion of blood and blood products if they are not screened for hepa-titis B and C.

Q. How can it be prevent-ed?

Ans. primary prevention: - through vaccination against hepatitis B and a.

Secondary prevention: -periodic screening of health

workers and others for hepatitis B and C as a result of the occu-pation risks it poses and practice of good infection control mea-sures by them.

-Quality screening of all do-nated blood and blood products for hepatitis B and C before transfusion by blood services - Use of condoms during sexual intercourse and leading low risk lifestyles

-The best protection against hepatitis a and e is consumption of only safe food and water and practicing good hygiene.

Q. In Bhutan, what is the main type of hepatitis which is affecting the population?

Ans. hepatitis B is the main type of hepatitis affecting the population

Q. How important is it for Bhutan to be a part of the world awareness day?

Ans. Bhutan is also one of the countries in South east asia that is grappling with the same prob-lem as other neighboring coun-tries. It is important to make the entire Bhutanese community the public, the policy-makers as well as health workers aware of this disease so that Bhutan can take a wider, a greater multi-sectoral approach and com-mitment and concerted efforts be made in the prevention and control of viral hepatitis that can significantly reduce the dis-ease burden in the country.


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.

JUNE 9, 2013JULY 28, 2013

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Tigers thrive in healthy ecosystems. The ecosystems that support this top predator also produce clean water and clear air - elements vital to our human health. Our people and tigers co-existed in harmony for centuries. Our Tiger needs people’s help. Lets join our hand to save our remaining tigers and its habitat.

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