This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources (2021-22) deals with the action taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in their Twelfth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on ‘Flood Management in the Country including International Water Treaties in the field of Water Resource Management with particular Reference to …
India yesterday announced an aid of Rs 50 billions, including a special package of Rs 5 billion, for Bhutan as part of commitment to its continued socio-economic development, a move that assumes significance against the backdrop of unease in the bilateral ties recently. The decision was announced after talks between …
Centre for Science and Environment in cooperation with National Environment Commission, Bhutan conducted a five day workshop for the 55 officers of the Bhutan Power Corporation in Paro, Bhutan on the EIA and Environmental Management of Transmission Line Power Projects from September 2-6, 2013. The programme was attended by 50 …
For Bhutan’s people, the forests provide food, timber, fibres and medicines; a wide range of ecosystem services (e.g. water regulation and purification, pollination, soil formation, nutrient recycling and climate regulation); and recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits. From a global perspective, Bhutan’s forests are also valuable carbon sinks, absorbing an estimated …
After a 6-day campaign, the team returned with 30 sacks of trash Tourism: A team of 20 tourist guides and officials of the Bhutan Tourism corporation limited (BTCL) returned to Chamgang in Thimphu with 30 sacks of garbage collected from the six-day Dagala trekking route in Thimphu dzongkhag. The team …
New agriculture minister approves previous govt.’s plan despite environmental concerns Road: People of Lhuentse could see their long held dream, the 67km Shingkhar-Gorgan highway that runs through a core tiger habitat at Thrumshingla park come through, as the newly elected agriculture minister commits to back the plan. “I’ve gone through …
Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its first case. Of the new 24 cases, 13 are males and the rest females. According to …
At the town square: More than 3,000 people residing in and around Mongar town collected more than five tonnes of garbage on August 4 Despite a monthly clean up campaign and a garbage collection system in place, wastes are still seen clogging the drains and littering Mongar town. Residents said …
The SAARC Development Goals (SDGs) – Country Report 2013 is the second edition by Bhutan on the progress of SDGs. This document is a testament to Bhutan’s full commitment in achieving the SDGs. Indeed Bhutan's socio-economic development is guided by the philosophy of Gross National Happiness, which is holistic and …
The objective of this study is to examine the electricity sector in the Kingdom of Bhutan, and analyze the historical evolution of electricity demand and supply, export and import, as well as the energy load profiles of high-voltage and medium-voltage industries. The goal of the research is to identify opportunities …
BPC: After being delayed by more than a year, the Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC) yesterday finally put in place the final link connecting the western and eastern transmission grids and making it one for the whole country. “By 9am last morning, the grid was connected,” the director of BPC, Gem …
More than 56 households of Tagkhambi chiwog under Tsakaling gewog in Mongar will soon live “brighter” days. The village will soon be connected with electricity. According to rural electrification officials in Mongar, with the project in the chiwog almost done, it could happen at least by the end of next …
The deathly sludge that entombed most of Kedarnath town in just 24 hours on the evening of June 16 and on June 17 morning may have just changed life in the Indian Himalayas forever. Survivors say they witnessed tonnes of waterborne debris flattening almost anything that stood in the way. …
More than thirty people from Bikhar and Wungkhar villages in Drametse gewog, and those from Narang gewog, have started attending hearings on water disputes between the two gewogs in Mongar district court from July 8. Thirty-seven households of Bikhar and Wungkhar in Drametse, Mongar, lodged a complaint against people of …
On May 4, 2013, the ministry of health of VietNam suspended Quinvaxem, the pentavalent combination used in that country, after it had caused 12 deaths and nine non-fatal serious adverse events (3). On investigating the reactions caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the nine non-fatal …
Two years after the government requested Japan for their assistance to carry out a detailed design and rehabilitation of about three kilometres of the Taklai irrigation system in Sarpang, a grant agreement of Nu 630M was signed between the chief representative of JICA Bhutan office and Gross National Happiness Commission …
The river is channelled through the 682m long and 8.5m wide diversion tunnel yesterday This is the fifth such river diversions in the country As excavators began lifting massive boulders to the diversion tunnel, Mangdechhu staff and guests present at the inauguration of the diversion works watched in awe as …
An outbreak of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in Lajab gewog’s community school, Dagana that was reported in the first week of June has now been brought under control, district health officials said. Almost all of the school’s 159 students were infected since the first case was reported on June 2. …
Come July, students and teachers in 20 schools will get the opportunity to monitor climate change in the country using scientific instruments worth USD 150,000 donated by Karuna Foundation in the United States. Schools using the instruments will serve as database for the climate change study, the first of its …
India may continue to finance hydroelectric power projects in Bhutan despite financial difficulties as the country is uncomfortable with the joint venture ( JV) route proposed by the Indian side. Bhutan has agreed to allocate 10 hydel projects, totalling 10,000 mw, to the Indian central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) by …
Farmer Kinley Pem will have nothing to harvest from her two langdo (area ploughed by an ox in a day) of paddy fields this season. The fields on which she had just transplanted paddy, was covered with sand. The flash flood also washed away more than six acres of paddy …
