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๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐œ๐ค ๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ฆ ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ

โ€ฆ๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’‘๐’Š๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’“๐’š ๐’‡๐’‚๐’“๐’Ž ๐’”๐’š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’Ž ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’ ๐’†๐’๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’–๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’• ๐’‘๐’๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’š ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ By Sonam Choden The Department of Livestock has completed the first phase of training for the new Pig and Poultry Farm Registration System (FRS). This marks an important step toward the nationwide rollout of a digital platform aimed at formalizing and improving the management of livestock …

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๐†๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ง๐š ๐€๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ ๐†๐ž๐ฐ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ

โ€ฆ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’–๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’„๐’๐’๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’–๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’…๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’… ๐’–๐’‘๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’…๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’” ๐’“๐’†๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’…๐’” ๐’„๐’–๐’• ๐’๐’‡๐’‡ ๐’‚๐’„๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’„๐’‰๐’๐’๐’๐’”, ๐’‰๐’๐’”๐’‘๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’”, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ๐’†๐’•๐’” By Kinzang LhamoEvery monsoon, residents of Getana and Bongo Gewogs in Chukha face dangerous challenges when roads are blocked or washed away, cutting them off from basic services. The absence of permanent bridges, especially at key points like Badina, …

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๐„๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž ๐Œ๐จ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ ๐Ÿ’.๐Ÿ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐“๐จ ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐‰๐จ๐›๐ฌ, ๐„๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐€๐ง๐ ๐…๐จ๐จ๐ ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ

โ€ฆ๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ, ๐’”๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’•๐’‰ ๐’†๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’•๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’†๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’„ ๐’“๐’†๐’„๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’“๐’†๐’…๐’–๐’„๐’† ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’• ๐’…๐’†๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’…๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† By Kezang ChodenThe Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) remains a central component of the governmentโ€™s national recovery plan, designed to promote job creation, strengthen the private sector, and direct investment into priority sectors. To date, 50 percent of the total ESP outlay has been secured, …

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๐”๐๐ณ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฉ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‚๐€๐‘๐‹๐„๐

โ€ฆ๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’†๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’Š๐’ ๐’Š๐’“๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’, ๐’‡๐’†๐’๐’„๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’š๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’… ๐’”๐’†๐’†๐’…๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’†๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’„ ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’๐’˜๐’•๐’‰ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’‰๐’–๐’•๐’‚๐’ By Sonam ChodenAgricultural development remains central to rural progress, especially in communities where subsistence farming is the main source of livelihood. In Udzorong, targeted interventions through CARLEP have led to measurable improvements in farming practices and productivity. These interventions include hybrid seed trials, maintenance …

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๐๐ฃ๐ข ๐†๐ž๐ฐ๐จ๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐–๐จ๐จ๐๐ž๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ซ ๐“๐š๐ง๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐‡๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ

โ€ฆ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’˜๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’‚๐’‡๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’„๐’“๐’๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’”๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” By Kezang Choden In an effort to preserve traditional infrastructure and improve community facilities, Bji Gewog in Haa Dzongkhag has recently completed the construction of a traditional wooden bridge under Gyensa-Tokay Chiwog, along with reservoir tanks at Jamtay Goenpa under Talung Chiwog and Yangthang Goenpa under Yangthang …

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๐ƒ๐จ๐’๐“ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐”๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ž ๐†๐‚ ๐‘๐จ๐š๐, ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‹๐จ๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ

โ€ฆ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’… ๐’”๐’‚๐’‡๐’†๐’•๐’š, ๐’‚๐’„๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’„๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’Š๐’ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’˜๐’๐’ˆ๐’” By Tashi Tshewang The Department of Surface Transport (DoST), Regional Office in Sarpang, has announced the timely completion of an infrastructure upgrade on the Senggye Gewog Center Road. The nine-kilometer stretch now features a newly resurfaced road, improved side drains, and strengthened retaining structures. Funded …

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๐†๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฒ ๐‡๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ

โ€ฆ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐’‡๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’„๐’“๐’๐’‘ ๐’…๐’‚๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’‰ ๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž ๐’”๐’†๐’•๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ๐’” ๐’…๐’–๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’Š๐’๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’š ๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’”๐’†๐’” ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’‚ By Kezang Choden Residents of Gangtey Gewog in Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag continue to face significant challenges caused by the increasing number of stray horses in the area. The unattended animals damage crops, disrupt daily life, and pose risks to people and livestock. School children …

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๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐”๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ-๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐“๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฅ๐ž ๐†๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐–๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ

โ€ฆ๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’‰๐’๐’๐’…๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’ ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’† ๐’˜๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’ By Kezang Choden Gangtey Gewog in Wangduephodrang, known for its scenic landscapes and cultural significance, is facing increasing challenges from litter and waste pollution. The rising number of visitors, coupled with limited waste management infrastructure, has led to visible signs of improper waste disposal …

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๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐…๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‚๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ฉ ๐ˆ๐ง ๐‘๐š๐๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐„๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ

โ€ฆ๐‘ฏ๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’š ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’Š๐’•๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’…๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’๐’๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’…๐’†๐’…๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’‘๐’๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’š ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‹๐’๐’Š๐’๐’• ๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’†๐’—๐’‚๐’๐’–๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” By Yeshi Dolma At the 17th Meet-the-Press session, Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk acknowledged a critical gap in the national health security system: the absence of a dedicated policy and response mechanism for radiation emergencies. This shortcoming was highlighted during the recent Joint External Evaluation (JEE), which gave the …

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๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅโ€™๐ฌ ๐‘๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐”๐ซ๐›๐š๐ง ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐’๐š๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

โ€ฆ๐’–๐’“๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’‘๐’” ๐’‘๐’–๐’• ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’†๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’“๐’๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’‚๐’• ๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’Œ, ๐’”๐’•๐’–๐’…๐’š ๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’” By Kinzang Lhamo Thimphuโ€™s rapid urban expansion has revealed serious sanitation challenges that threaten public health, the environment, and equitable urban development. Although sewer connections have reached over 70 percent of households, nearly one-third of the population- especially those living on steep and difficult terrain- still rely on onsite …

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