A farmer, Tashi Dorji from Tongling Pam in Trashigang wears a big smile on his face as he readies his field for the annual paddy transplantation. Though he slogs in the mid-day scorching heat, he expects a bountiful harvest this year with his field solar fenced last year. He said he harvested some 700 chagdhi […]
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Most of the businesses use plastic as a mode of their convenience despite the ban by National Environment Commission (NEC) from April 1. The ban would not allow the sale of plastic carry bags, doma wrappers, and ice cream pouches. It is a reinforcement of earlier ban, twenty years ago, and is applicable to business […]
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Despite many children visiting the Centenary Children’s Park in Thimphu, the playground facilities remain broken or unmaintained. Thirty-one-year-old Jamyang Zangmo who is a regular visitor said that children could get hurt from the sharp edges of the broken equipment. She brings her four-year-old son to the park once a week. “The condition of the park […]
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Sachilo Chiwog is one of the remotest chiwogs of Wangphu gewog in Samdrup Jongkhar which lacks major facilities like road and electricity. Wangphu gewog is 24km away from the Samdrup Jongkhar – Trashigang highway, while Sachilo chiwog has a total of 46 households with a population of 321. People walk for more than two hours […]
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People of five chiwogs of Shumar gewog in Pemagatshel are suffering from acute drinking water shortage. Dagor, Goenpoong-Shali, Nangkhor, Bartseri and Khotakpa-Yalang have been facing acute drinking water shortage for decades now. Though every household has a water-tap constructed by the gewog administration, the taps run dry. From the five chiwogs, Goenpoong-Shali chiwog is the […]
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Also one of the winners of SAARC Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 She creates mesmerizing products like bags, containers and dust-bins from waste. Chogyal Lhamo, 42, from Nubi Gewog in Trongsa is an entrepreneur who collects waste to turn it into useful items for sale. A mother of three and based in Bumthang, she […]
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Forty-four-year-old Gorey Maya from Gangtokha village of Barshonggewog in Tsirang used to walk more than two kilometers from her house to a spring water source to fetch water for daily consumption every day. However, she could carry only 20 liters which was insufficient for the whole household’s daily consumption. But now she need not have […]
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Frequent roadblocks at Narphung on the way from Trashigang to SamdrupJongkhar highway, cause inconvenience to both the commuters plying the highway and the villagers residing below the highway. Widening work along the 180km stretch from Trashigang to SamdrupJongkhar at Narphung has left two gewogs, Gomdar and Wongphu affected by falling boulders and landslides that keep […]
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Water shortage in Kanglung will finally be resolved with the construction of two water treatment plants in the gewog nearing completion by July end. Construction works include that of two water treatment plants, four reservoirs tanks and approach roads to the two sources. Two water treatment plants, one in Nimshingdrang and another in ShingchenGoenpa in […]
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Over 2,100 volunteers collected 3,997 sacks of trashes in the mega #trashtag challenge in Bhutan from 12 different dzongkhags The #TrashTag Challenge is currently going viral among the Bhutanese teenagers and millennials on social media like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The #trashtag challenge requires people to pick a place full of trash, clean up the […]
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