Lhakpa Quendren

Gelephu—The Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) in Gelephu initiated a knee replacement surgeries. Besides the much-needed health care, the initiative could save the government millions of Ngultrums otherwise spent on referring patients out of the country.

The six-day camp is conducted by a 22-member team from Operation International, USA, including five orthopedic surgeons joined by four orthopedic surgeons from Bhutan.

Forty-eight patients—19 male and 29 female—aged between 45 and 87 with chronic knee pain, are undergone surgeries to replace their knees. Considering a total cost of Nu 800,000 for each referred patient, according to the hospital, the replacement surgery would save over Nu 38 million.

The government, in recent years, has approved referring patients with chronic knee pain to India for total knee replacement surgery.

X-ray after total knee replacement surgery

While the government initiated total knee replacement surgery services at the national referral hospital at the end of 2022, the costly procurement of implants and limited operating theaters hindered the provision of regular services for chronic knee problems. An implant would cost between Nu 200,000 to Nu 400,000, depending on its brand.

The medical team in Gelephu, meanwhile, performed three surgeries on the first day on April 28 following the case presentations to select the cases.

Metals were used to replace damaged joints, which would restore mobility and reduce pain. About eight to 10 surgeries would be performed each day.

Medical superintendent of CRRH, Dr Choeda Gyaltshen, said that patients came from as far as Trashiyangtse. “As they age, there will be wear and tear at the knee joints, which causes pain and difficulty in walking or moving. After the replacement surgery, patient scan have a pain-free life, which will help improve their quality of life.”

A patient, Khando, said that he refused to undergo the surgery initially. “Not being able to endure the pain, I decided to undergo the replacement surgery upon hearing that foreign doctors were coming to perform it. I am forever grateful for this initiative.”

This is the second visit of Operation International, USA to Bhutan and the first such surgical camp being conducted by the team in the country.

During their weeklong camp at Mongar Eastern Regional Referral Hospital in March last year, 20 medical professionals performed 60 life-changing procedures, including laparoscopic hernia repair, two gastric cancer resections for patients previously waitlisted for overseas treatment, pancreatic tumor resection, and facial reconstruction for micrognathia.

Operation International, USA is a non-profit organisation specialising in organising medical missions, during which volunteer healthcare professionals perform surgeries and provide medical treatment to underserved communities.

Staff Reporter

The Opposition Party (OP) yesterday alerted the government about the pledges the Party made during the election period.

While acknowledging the progress made by the new Lhengye Zhungtshog in fulfilling the pledges such as the waiver of pedestrian fees at the Phuentsholing Pedestrian Terminal, establishment of the Economic Development Board with the Prime Minister as chair, among others, the Opposition Party called for faster implementation in other pledges.

OP claims that after more than 90 days since inception of the government, the tangible development of the remaining nine pledges outlined remains pending or unfulfilled.

What are the pledges?

The Opposition Party lines them up so:

Making Saturdays ‘off-days’ for teachers and students.

Commission a comprehensive review of the business regulatory processes, including at the exit and entry gateways; requirement of the review to be submitted in three months with concrete recommendations to remove all barriers, and ease the conduct of the businesses.

Instruct relevant agencies to revise the FDI policy 2019 to make it business friendly and to attract FDIs in large numbers, including FDI in small and medium sectors.

Instruct the Ministry of Education and Skills Development to review the IWP and develop a performance measurement system specific to the needs of the teachers in consultation with the Royal Civil Service Commission.

Review the SDF regulation for tourists in the southern border towns to explore possibility of allowing tourists from the bordering towns without the levy of SDF.

Issue office order to all the Bhutanese embassies abroad to submit recommendations and ideas on how the embassy can promote inbound tourists to Bhutan.

Issue office order to relevant agencies to develop a separate action plan to achieve in-bound tourist number to 300,000 annually.

Establish a sub-committee of Lhengye Zhungtshog with working members from relevant agencies to work on regularisation of contract employees.

Instruct relevant agencies to undertake feasibility study for the construction of five airstrips in strategic locations across the country.

The Opposition Party said: “We cannot overlook the crucial importance of maintaining the integrity of promises made by the political parties … The failure to uphold and fulfill these pledges undermines the very foundation of trust, casting a shadow not only on the government but on the broader concept of governance itself.”

The Party said that in light of accountability to the citizenry, the government must engage in transparent communication with all relevant stakeholders, and the people. “It is imperative that the status of the aforementioned pledges (damchas), be disseminated openly and comprehensively to the Bhutanese populace.”

Jigmi Wangdi

Bhutan is the pioneer in primary healthcare (PHC) measurement in South Asia.

This is according to a study carried out by Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with the World Bank and with funding support from the Government of Japan and The Global Fund.

But what does it really mean?

The assessments were carried out to response to evolving challenges and to develop a more resilient and future-fit health system, to assess the current status, and to identify strengths and opportunities within the existing PHC system.

The assessments focused on Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI), Service Delivery Indicators (SDI), and Bhutan’s Healthcare Costing Analysis.

The findings of the PHCPI and SDI assessments show that Bhutan has a strong foundation for quality PHC service delivery.

Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk said that the SDI survey would provide critical insights into the quality of health service delivery. “It is timely for the 13th Five-year Plan’s baseline.”

Lyonpo added that the PHCPI would offer a better understanding of the state of PHC in the country. “The findings of the assessment look impressive and it will serve as the baseline to monitor PHC in the country.”

The Bhutan Healthcare Costing Analysis will be useful in planning sustainable health financing while fulfilling the constitution’s mandate of providing free basic health services, Lyonpo said.

Bhutan is the first country in the South Asia region to conduct a comprehensive set of internationally recognised and standardised PHC system measurements.

As a result, Bhutan is leading the region in its dedication to innovation and accountability through its pioneering set of comprehensive PHC-focused assessments.

The findings will provide timely, actionable, and policy-relevant evidence to make an impact on health care and population health at scale.

 

Neten Dorji

Kanglung—At Sherubtse College in Kanglung, a small room is abuzz with activity as Tshewang Tenzin organizes his belongings. Despite being visual impairment, Tshewang is a dedicated massage therapist in Kanglung, bringing positive change to the lives of many.

Tshewang grew up in the quiet village of Gomchu in Khaling. At the age of 21, he faced a life-altering challenge when he lost his sight entirely. Reflecting on that difficult time, he says, “I woke up one morning and couldn’t see clearly. I was in the 9th grade, and it affected my ability to continue my studies.”

With his mother, also visually impaired, life became difficult.

However, instead of allowing his disability to dictate his life, Tshewang chose to embark on a journey to redefine his purpose and achieve self-sufficiency. Reflecting on the impact of losing his sight, he says, “Losing my sight felt like the worst thing imaginable. At 21, while most people were focused on studying, I was engulfed in depression.”

Undeterred by obstacles, Tshewang sought opportunities to enhance his skills and contribute to society. He found inspiration in the transformative potential of massage therapy during his training at the Norbu Healing Arts Centre. He dedicated himself to mastering quney therapy, a specialised massage technique.

Armed with his newfound skills, Tshewang set up his massage service in Kanglung, envisioning a sanctuary where individuals could find relief from physical ailments. Despite encountering financial challenges and resource constraints, his sense of purpose remained unwavering.

“I took this step hoping to secure some livelihood assistance from the business,” Tshewang says.

Navigating the world without sight, Tshewang relies on his keen sense of touch and intuitive understanding to alleviate his clients’ discomfort. “I can’t see 100 percent. I do it with my eyes closed half of the time,” he admits humbly. Guided by mental images and empathy, he provides relief with unmatched skill and compassion.

Transitioning from a student to a business owner presented its challenges, especially with muscular degeneration adding to his obstacles. However, Tshewang remained determined.

“Making a living through massage services is challenging. I didn’t stay complacent,” he says.

Through diligent saving and perseverance, he has a plan to expand his enterprise, ensuring access to necessary tools and equipment.

Looking ahead, he aims to grow his business and hire people like himself. “I know the challenges disabled individuals face in society. I want them to be independent too.”

Today, Tshewang is a symbol of resilience. Despite facing adversity, he refused to succumb to it. Beyond his remarkable massage skills, he exemplifies the power of courage in overcoming challenges and persevering through difficult times.

“Although I can do what I do well, what truly distinguishes me is how I overcame losing my sight at 21,” he says.

The recent notice from the Thimphu Thromde on the reduction in the volume of drinking water at source, by up to 70 percent, was aimed to prepare Thimphu residents of upcoming erratic drinking water supply.

But experts warn that if the current ways of water management and consumption continue, residents not only in Thimphu but throughout the country, should be prepared to face permanent and continuous loss of natural drinking water reserves in the future.

Snowfall, and rain replenished our springs and streams – nature’s water source in Bhutan. However, according to environment experts, it would be flawed to blame the changing pattern in snowfall and rainfall – a manifestation of the adverse impact of climate change, and the increase in water consumers, as sole responsible for the drying water sources in the country.

For them, the most crucial issue, and which could take a very long time to resolve, was the poor water management and consumption pattern which had detrimental effects on the health of the watershed in the country.

It is embarrassing to complain about water scarcity when there is a river flowing through the middle of the city, says an environmental expert. Sadly though, the value and role of the river remained, for now, reduced merely to wash away human waste.

Otherwise, from cooking food to flushing toilets, and from farming to washing cars, only fresh, clean, and pristine natural spring water was used. The sources of which, unfortunately, had been moving further and further away from human settlements while also becoming smaller, if not drying up altogether.

As a study pointed out, while even assuming the smallest 10 litres cistern, and a minimum of flushing twice a day, a resident in Thimphu would flush away 20 litres of mountain spring water down the toilet in a day. When considered for the entire population of Thimphu,  thousands of litres of clean and pristine natural spring water would be flushed down the toilets each day.

The demand for water had continually increased, while mindless consumption patterns and mismanagement went unabated. Water leakage both in the  supply and consumption process wasted a considerable amount of water, while its improper use – simple as not turning off the tap when not in use, drained away the precious natural water. It is no wonder then, when research presented a much higher per capita water consumption in Bhutan than in socio-economically advanced societies.

From drinking directly from the water taps back in the good old days, to drinking only bottled water today, Bhutanese have become conscious of the quality of the water, it shows. But evidences available also prove we have not become conscious of the way we consume it.

Today, there are about 23 water bottling plants in the country, selling bottled water for all types of consumers. Our conservation achievements in other areas are likely to be watered down, if, on the other hand, drinking bottled water is the only option left.

Water shortages, experts say, would get worse every year. Changing our consumption habits and supply system could help us at least in the short term. The belief is that there is enough water for everyone if the leakages, illegal tapping and equality in distribution is ensured.

 

KP Sharma

The European Union (EU) and UNICEF committed one million Euros to enhance student’s learning experiences and skill development to boost employability and economic growth while reducing disparities.

The EU and UNICEF announced the funding yesterday at the end of a two-day stakeholder consultation workshop. The workshop discussed  a detailed plan for leveraging technology in education to tackle digital exclusion and promote modern skills.

The Ministry of Education and Skill Development’s STEM and Innovation Division, together with UNICEF, will implement this plan, according to a joint press release from the partners.

As of 2023, the World Skills Clock reported that about 66.9 percent of young people aged 15-24 in Bhutan don’t have digital skills, and around 79.8 percent lack the skills expected at the secondary education level.

The three-year programme will support the initiatives of the government to create a conducive environment for digitally transforming basic, secondary and technical/vocational education.

It aims to bridge the digital gap that learners faced during the pandemic and complements existing initiatives in Bhutan.

The initiatives is expected to further enhance the quality of digital learning by improving governance and policies, ensuring inclusive education and skills development for children. It will also build the capacity of stakeholders, including teachers, parents, and students, in digital skills, cybersecurity, online safety and digital content creation.

In addition, the programme will test and implement connectivity models suitable for digitalization.

Minister and Chargé d’ Affaires a.i., delegation of the European Union to India and Bhutan Seppo Nurmi, said that the initiative is a step towards empowering the youth by strengthening digitalisation in education and skills, for inclusive socio-economic development by ensuring systems, capacity and connectivity models are in place to enhance digital learning.

“Given the pervasive role of digital technology, improving digital skills would boost Bhutan’s economic competitiveness, while promoting social equality,” he added.

UNICEF Bhutan Representative, Andrea James said  that digital learning solutions must be designed and implemented in ways that promote inclusive learning for all children.

“As part of the initiative, the MoESD and partners will identify 10 schools across Bhutan and engage 2,000 students to test suitable and feasible connectivity models for digitalisation and scale up.”

Director General of the Department of School Education, Karma Galey, said that the funding support arrived at a crucial moment as Bhutan continues to transform its education system, with a strong focus on adopting digital technologies.

He added that the funding will support the government’s ongoing efforts to digitalise schools and adapt learning methods to meet the changing needs of the times.

 

རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ས་གནས་ ཅེང་ཌུ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ལྡུམ་ར་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ནང་ འབྲུག་གི་དགའ་སྐྱིད་ལྡུམ་ར་ཟེར་ མི་མང་ལུ་ འགྲེམས་སྟོན་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ལྡུམ་ར་དེ་ཡང་ ས་ཆ་ཌེ་སི་མཱལ་༣༧ ནང་ འབྲུག་གི་ ལྡུམ་རིག་མཁས་མཆོག་༡༠འབད་མི་ སྡེ་ཚན་ཅིག་གིས་ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠པའི་ཟླ་མཇུག་ཚུན་ འགྲེམས་སྟོན་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

འབྲུག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ལྡུམ་ར་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ནང་ འགོ་དང་པ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༠༦ ལུ་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

ཁ་ཙ་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་དྲུང་ཆེན་(བྱང་ཕྱོགས་) ཤྲི་ ཨ་ནུ་རག་ སི་རི་བཱསི་ཏ་དང་ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ གོང་འཕེལ་མཉམ་རོགས་གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་སྦེ་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་དང་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚུ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་ལུ་ བཀའ་དྲིན་དགའ་ཚོར་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༨ ལུ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མི་མང་དཔེ་མཛོད་དེ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཆུ་བར་ཆུ་ལས་ ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་རྫོང་ཁ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་འོག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་བརྟན་མཛོད་ས་ཁོངས་དང་ སྤོ་བཤུད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༡༩༧༨ ལུ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ དཔེ་མཛོད་དེ་ནང་ དཔེ་དེབ་༦༠,༠༠༠དེ་ཅིག་དང་ འཐུས་མི་༢,༠༠༠ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

༉ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ ཟིན་བྲིས་འཆར་གཞི་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༡༠༠ ལས་ གཞུང་གིས་ ཤུལ་མའི་ལོ་༥ ནང་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་༥༠༠ གནས་པའི་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་ དམིགས་གཏད་བསྐྱེད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཅིག་ འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་བློན་པོ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ན་ཧིང་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༤༨.༦༡ དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༢ ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༤༣.༦༢ དེ་ལས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༡ ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༤༣.༣༡ གནས་པའི་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ ཟ་ཁང་ལས་སྡེའི་ནང་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༣༤.༩ ཡོད་མི་དེ་ མཐོ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ད་ དེ་གི་འོག་ལས་ར་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༣ ལུ་ བརྡ་དོན་འཕྲུལ་རིག་དང་ ཡང་ཅིན་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ནང་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༡.༧ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་ཚར་ལེ་ཤ་ར་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་ཡོད་རུང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་ལས་ཚུར་ ཕྱའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ སེམས་ཤུགས་བྱིན་ནི་ལུ་ འཐུས་ཤོར་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་བའི་སྲིད་བྱུས་དེ་ ཆ་འཇོག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ཕུལ་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

བློན་པོ་གིས་ སླབ་མིའི་ནང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་དང་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ མ་ཕུལ་བའི་ཧེ་མར་ སྲིད་བྱུས་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་མི་དེ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ལུ་ ད་རུང་ གསལ་ཞུ་འབད་འོང་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཁོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ད་ལྟོ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་མི་དེ་ ཕྱའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ སྟབས་བདེ་ཏོག་ཏོ་བཟོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ གནད་དོན་ལ་ལོ་ཅིག་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ ཕྱིའི་མ་དངུལ་བརྗེ་སོར་དང་ དངུལ་སྤྲོད་ལམ་ལུགས་ ཕྱི་མི་ནང་སྐྱོད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཆ་རྐྱེན་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཚུ་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ད་རེས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལས་འགུལ་ཚུ་ཡང་ སོ་དང་ ནགས་ཚལ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ ཤེས་རིག་ བརྡ་དོན་འཕྲུལ་རིག་ཞབས་ཏོག་ ལྟ་བཤལ་དང་ཟ་ཁང་ དེ་ལས་ ས་གཏེར་ཚུ་ཨིན་པས།

མ་གཞི་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ གཙོ་རིམ་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ བློན་པོ་གིས་ སླབ་མའི་ནང་ གཞུང་གིས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཚུ་ ས་གོ་གཞན་ནང་ རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ མདུན་སྐྱོད་འབད་དེ་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཁོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་གོ་སྐབས་བཟོ་ནི་ མ་རྩ་དང་འཕྲུལ་རིག་འོང་སྤྱོད་ དེ་ལས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་ཐོག་ལས་ ཕྱི་དངུལ་ཟུར་གསོག་ཡར་སེང་འབད་ནི་དེ་ཨིན་མས་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཆོག་ཐམ་ལེན་ནིའི་ བྱ་སྒོ་ཚུ་ཡང་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་བཟོ་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ འཛམ་གླིང་མ་རྩ་གོང་འཕེལ་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ འཐུས་མི་སྦེ་ འཛུལ་ཞུགས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ ལཱ་འབད་དོ་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་ རྟ་མགྲིན་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས་ སླབ་མིའི་ནང་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ནང་ བགོ་བཤའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༡༥ བཙུགས་དགོ་པའི་ གྲོས་འདེབས་བཀོད་ནུག།

གཙོ་འཛིན་གྱིས་ བཀོད་མིའི་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་སྲིད་བྱུས་༢༠༡༩ ཅན་མའི་ནང་ ཕོར་ཨིསི་ཊར་དང་ དེ་གི་ཡན་ཆད་འབད་མི་ ཟ་ཁང་རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཆོག་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ཕོར་ཨིས་ཊར་དང་ དེ་གི་འོག་རྒྱུ་ཡོད་མི་ ཟ་ཁང་ཚུ་ལུ་ མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ནི་གི་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

སྒེར་སྡེའི་ངོ་ཚབ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ནང་ ཅ་དངོས་ཚུ་ བརྗེ་སོར་འབད་བཏུབ་པའི་དངུལ་གྱིས་ འབད་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ བགོ་བཤའ་དེ་ ནང་འཁོད་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལས་ མ་བརྒལ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

བརྗེ་སོར་འབད་བཏུབ་པའི་ཏི་རུ་དེ་ ཚད་གཅིག་བརྒལ་མེདཔ་ལས་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ སླབ་མིའི་ནང་ བརྗེ་སོར་འབད་བཏུབ་པའི་ མ་དངུལ་དེ་གིས་ མི་ལང་པས་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ལྟ་རྟོག་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་མིའི་ནང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ཚོང་ལམ་ཆུང་ཀུ་ཅིག་ལས་བརྒལ་མེདཔ་ལས་ སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གྱི་ཟད་འགྲོ་དང་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ཟད་འགྲོ་ལེ་ཤ་ རིག་རྩལ་ཅན་གྱི་ཁྱད་རིག་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གདོང་ལེན་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ བྱུང་སྟེ་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལས་སྡེ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ གདོང་ལེན་གཞན་ཚུ་ གཞུང་ལས་གནང་བ་འཐོབ་ནི་དང་ མགུ་རྙོགས་ལམ་ལུགས་ལུ་ཚུ་ ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

 

ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ།

Dechen Dolkar

Residents of the Chanjiji housing colony can reside in the flat until they retire from the civil service.

Last Friday, during the Meet the Press session, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay said that the Cabinet had approved the National Housing Development Corporation Limited (NHDCL) Board’s decision to allow residents of the Chanjiji colony to occupy their homes until they resign from civil services.

Following executive orders issued by the Ministry of Finance regarding the revision of the tenancy agreement for residents of Changjiji colony, the Board of the NHDCL agreed to revise the tenancy act, permitting residents to occupy their homes until they resign.

The Board forwarded this decision to the Cabinet for final approval.

However, residents must fulfill certain conditions and criteria to qualify for occupancy in the affordable colony.

Prime Minister said that the tenants should be employed in Thimphu, belong to a low-income group, and should not own property in Thimphu to be eligible for residency.

Chief executive officer (CEO) of NHDCL, Rinchen Wangdi, said that the Board had proposed two conditions for allowing the residents to occupy until their retirement.

He said that if an occupant’s wife or husband owns buildings under Thimphu Thromde or their gross income exceeds the low-income threshold, they would not be eligible to occupy the unit.

“NHDCL will assess the income of the couple. They will be required to self-declared and NHDCL will verify it,” Rinchen Wangdi said.

NHDCL is currently working on determining the gross low-income threshold to be set.

Rinchen Wangdi said that these criteria were in place to ensure that the housing units are allocated to low-income and deserving individuals.

Rinchen Wangdi also said that NHDCL would implement various mechanisms to ensure that income declarations are honest.

He said that all the tenants, regardless of their location,will have a valid occupancy for two years and they will be renewed. Before renewing their tenancy agreement every two years, their income and property will be validated.

“If they don’t qualify the conditions, they will have to vacate the unit.”

Last year, NHDCL announced that tenants could occupy the units for a maximum of ten years.

However, Rinchen Wangdi clarified that this rule is no longer applicable, and residents can now occupy until they retire if they meet the specified conditions.

The Chanjiji Colony comprises around 700 units, each with two bedrooms, one toilet, a kitchen, a sitting room, and a veranda.

Tenants currently pay around Nu 7,000 per month.

The government pledged to revise the tenancy agreement to allow tenants to occupy the houses until their retirement or transfer.

NHDCL also announced last year that it would also allow corporate and private employees to reside in their colony.

Rinchen Wangdi said that in the next one to two months, applications for residency in the NHDCL colony would also be open to corporate and private sector employees.

…USD 23.6 billion committed in 2023

YK Poudel

To bolster the response to climate change across Asia and the Pacific, and support efforts to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2023 supported US Dollar 23.6 billion—with 9.8 billion for climate financing.

As per the ADB’s annual report 2023 titled “Accelerating Climate Action for Sustainable Development”,  launched recently,  it is an increase from USD 6.7 billion in 2022.

The supports were through loans, grants, guarantees, equity investments, and technical assistance.

The ADB made significant climate investments in critical sectors such as transport (2.5 billion), agriculture (1.8 billion), and energy (1.9 billion).

ADB President, Masatsugu Asakawa, emphasised the institution’s role as the leading financier for climate action in the region.

“Our investments in adaptation and mitigation had a strong focus on climate-resilient agriculture, renewable energy and low carbon transport,” he said.

Moreover, he said, ADB leveraged an additional USD 16.4 billion in co-financing through robust partnerships, amplifying the impact of its initiatives.

According to the report, gender equality was one of the central focus of ADB’s operations, with initiatives aimed at reducing gender disparities and mitigating the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women.

“Nearly all of ADB’s activities in 2023 contributed to advancing gender equality, reaffirming its commitment to inclusive development,” the report stated.

In line with its evolution to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ADB implemented major capital management reforms to unlock up to USD 100 billion in new lending capacity over the next decade.

The report shows that the economic landscape across South Asia in 2023 reflected a mix of robust growth and moderation. “For example, India maintained its position as one of the fastest-growing economies globally, other countries experienced varying degrees of economic performance.”

Nonetheless, the challenges such as inflation, erratic monsoons, and energy shortages underscored the region’s vulnerability to climate change and emphasized the need for targeted investments in resilience-building measures.

To address specific challenges in member countries, ADB tailored interventions to tackle pressing issues.

In Bhutan, where youth unemployment reached alarming levels in 2022, ADB signed a USD 30 million loan agreement to enhance youth employability through skills training and infrastructure development.

Yangyel Lhaden

Bumthang—Over the past two years, the community service centre operated by Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women (RENEW) in Jalikhar, Bumthang has assisted over 100 cases of gender-based violence (GBV).

The centre here is among the initial three centres in the dzongkhags. Its establishment was prompted by the notable number of reported cases within these areas. Currently, there are 10 centres in the country.

The infrastructure for the community service centre in Bumthang was provided by the Bumthang Dzongkhag Administration, while its operational expenses are covered by funding from UNICEF.

Safe home for survivors requiring shelter services at the centre

Child-friendly room at the centre

The Centre features a two-story building. The ground floor serves as a safe shelter with bedding and pillows. It offers immediate support and overnight shelter for survivors in need.

The second floor houses an office furnished with informative postcards about RENEW, its services, and various topics including GBV, domestic violence, and female reproductive health, among others.

There is also a child-friendly room equipped with toys and drawing facilities.

This space is designed for clients experiencing domestic violence who often come with their children.

Here, children can engage in activities while their parents seek services.

A poster in the child-friendly room carries the message, “Let our children be children,” and the walls are adorned with artworks created by children.

The centre is staffed by two individuals: Pushpan Chhetri, who serves as the case manager, and Priya Ghalley, who fulfils the role of centre manager.

 

How does the centre function?

Initially, they began by informing taxi drivers about the centre’s location. They also actively participate in community advocacy programmes, promoting awareness about RENEW’s services and advocating for individuals affected by violence, among other issues.

In Pushpan Chhetri’s office, there are A4-sized printouts listing points she should keep in mind when interacting with her clients.

Some of these reminders posted on the wall include ensuring accountability, seeking informed consent and/or informed assent, and facilitating meaningful participation, which includes involving children in decision-making processes.

“Some clients can be challenging, but it all depends on how we approach them,” Pushpan Chhetri said. “The reminders on the wall help me provide better services to the clients.”

Priya Ghalley said that most clients who come to the centre belonged to low education backgrounds and were mostly victims of emotional violence. “We also receive cases from men, but there are more reported cases involving women and children.”

In its inaugural year, the centre documented cases involving adults as follows: 13 cases of physical abuse against females, five cases of emotional abuse against males and 24 against females, one case of economic abuse or neglect involving men and seven involving women, along with 27 non-GBV cases.

In the same period concerning children, the centre documented five cases of physical abuse involving girls, four involving boys, two cases of emotional violence against girls, two cases of sexual abuse, and two cases of neglect involving girls.

As of April 23rd, 13 clients have sought assistance at the Centre this year. Priya Ghalley said, “We typically receive a minimum of three and a maximum of seven cases per month.”

“The challenge we face here is that RENEW is the only non-governmental organisation, and sometimes services could be delayed. For example, if our client is a person with a disability,” Priya Ghalley said. “I know how to deal with a person with a disability to some extent, but for severe cases, we need to refer them, which could affect providing timely services.”

The RENEW centre in Bumthang also offers livelihood training based on community needs. It has provided training in tailoring, mushroom cultivation, and felting to the community.

 

Thinley Namgay

The highly anticipated Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2024 is set to commence on May 11 with the inaugural match between one of the regular BPL teams, Transport United FC, and the newcomer Tsirang FC at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu.

The former champion, Transport United FC, is determined to regain their lost glory. After 2018, the team could not bag any title. However, the team remained in the top five during these periods.

Tsirang FC has qualified only recently. The team has a new coach, and most players are also new.

At the first press conference of BPL 2024 held in Thimphu yesterday, Transport United’s Assistant coach Tshering Dendup said, “My players are motivated. We have five international players. Foreign players bring more energy to the team.”

The team also recruited seven potential local players.

Player Jigdrel Wangchuk said the team is calm right now and working diligently. He said Transport won’t underestimate any team.

Tsirang’s Karma Dema said that her team has prepared and intends to atleast remain in the top four or five. “Preparation is on track.”

Like Transport, Tsirang also has a few foreign players, which are expected to make an impact.

Captain Thinley Phuntsho said: “The team is ready to face major clubs.”

Compared to past editions, this year’s BPL is expected to be competitive, considering the recruitment of three to five international players by all 10 participating teams.

Samtse FC, Tsirang FC, Daga United FC, and Phuentsholing Heroes FC will face last year’s top six teams in the BPL___Paro FC, Thimphu City FC, Transport United FC, RTC FC, BFF Academy FC, and Tensung FC.

Gopal Rai, assistant coach at Paro FC, said the pre-season training has been on track, and the team is more focused on retaining the title.

He said that besides four foreign players on the team, two local players from Ugyen Academy FC, and four youngsters from their academy who have been promoted to the senior team are promising.

“Our two foreigners have already played for two seasons. Every team is strong, and we won’t give up. We aim to win every match,” Gopal Rai said.

The new head coach of Thimphu City FC, Jörg Steinebrunner, said that he was glad with the efforts, attitude, and commitments each player makes for the team. He said the BPL will be challenging, but the team is prepared to face it.

He said that regardless of results, he expects his players to put forth their effort to the fullest capacity.

Throughout all BPL seasons so far, Thimphu City has been a tough opponent for all participating teams.

Property owners in the Thimphu Thromde are angry. There is an acute shortage of water in the capital city. Basic services like enough drinking water, if not round the clock supply, is expected of any municipal authority.

In the past, landlords would bear with their angry tenants, ignore it or blame it on the thromde responsible for ensuring basic services like water for drinking, cooking and washing.  Many would  forget when the water starts trickling down.

Not anymore.

With the revision of property tax, property owners want the thromde to provide them with basic services. They respected the decisions of elected leaders and policy makers thinking that with increased tax revenue, the government would be able to invest to ensure services like drinking water.

The revenue department of the government is overwhelmed with the amount they have collected since January 2024. It was more than Nu 300 million more a month before the deadline. The final amount will be revealed soon.

The water shortage in Thimphu is a reality check. Some are questioning whether our policy makers put the cart before the horse. In other words, they wouldn’t complain if basic services are ensured before revising the tax.

That improved revenue for the government through taxes would result in improved services convinced many. To put into context, an owner of a 13-decimal land with a building on it paid nearly five times more in just a year after the government revised the tax. They would not complain if basic services like timely garbage collection, enough water, street lights and good roads were ensured.

To be fair on the thromde or the government, it has not even been a year since the taxes were revised. It should change. However, even if the revenue increases tenfold, the thromde, the thrompon and his council members will not see the revenue. The thromde is broke and depends on the government for funds. Those aware of the predicament say the thrompon and the thromde is a “potato between two rocks.” In other words, they are helpless. If revenue from revised taxes go to the thromde’s coffer, the thrompon and his team would be able to develop or ensure interrupted services like drinking water. When they have to depend on the government for funds, they can only provide empty promises.

A well-funded municipal body like the thromdes could live up to the expectations of taxpayers. If they have the authority and the resources, they would bear the brunt of angry residents and become accountable. In today’s context, they could blame “budget shortage”  or pass the blame on to the government and wash their hands off.

Issues surrounding the revised property taxes will come back to the Parliament when the first session of the parliament of the new government convenes. The debate, many expect, shouldn’t be on the rates, but on improving services after the revision. There is no point to burden the people if basic services like drinking water cannot be ensured.

It is a shame that a country blessed with natural resources cannot ensure basic needs like water. Every year when water becomes scarce,  authorities blame drying water sources. Thirsty residents are not fools. In the capital city, the Thimchhu and several streams flow by the valley. Many wish for policies, ideas and initiatives of taping the free-flowing snow or glacier-fed water to homes.

For those who felt the impact or the revised tax rates, the expectations after reliable water supply would be improved roads, streetlights, public places, playgrounds and many more that should be funded by taxpayers.

Thukten Zangpo

The government aims to increase the share of the manufacturing sector in gross domestic product (GDP) from 6 percent in 2021 to 30 percent by 2029.  This, the Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Employment, Namgyal Dorji, said would require Industrial Transformation Map (ITM), expected to be ready by June this year.

The manufacturing sector’s share in GDP has been declining over the years. The sector’s share in GDP declined from 8.93 percent or Nu 6.32 billion in 2010 to 6.73 percent or Nu 19.88 billion in 2022.

The sector’s share in GDP, which was 9.06 percent in 2012, saw a decrease to 7.51 percent in 2017 and 5.86 percent or Nu 11 billion in 2021, according to the National Accounts Statistics.

Lyonpo said that the ITM exercise was a work in progress where experts are gathering various industry-related information and data required for the ITM framework.

“Industry surveys, stakeholder consultation, and analysis will need to be carried out and ITMs for three priority sectors will be developed by June 2024,” he said, adding that the interventions and support measures required will be known only after the completion of the ITM exercise.

According to Lyonpo, the ministry initiated the development of the ITM with the support of the United Nations Development Programme to come up with a medium to long-term industrial strategy focused on key priority sectors, based on comparative and competitive advantages, among others.

“The intent is to develop sector-specific strategies (for prioritised sectors) to improve productivity, coordination and collaboration, partnership with the private sector and guide us in our effort to become a high-income country driven by innovation and technology by 2034,” he added.

The government plans to boost the manufacturing sector by developing infrastructure with amenities for industrial development, integrated single window online platform to access services by the private sector (Integrated Business Licensing System), and manufacturing as one of the priority sectors for the Economic Stimulus Plan.

Lyonpo said that the government would focus on industries that have growth potential for export, generating employment, and potential for value-addition of locally available raw materials.

When asked about the government’s plan to establish silicon chip and graphite battery industries, as mentioned by the former government, he said that the focus at the moment was to facilitate and support existing industries to navigate the challenges.

However, Lyonpo said that the study would be needed to support any new innovative ideas that will benefit the economy to grow.

He added that the government’s role in the private sector development is to improve the efficiency of the business to remain relevant and competitive in the market unless the causes of inefficiencies are due to policy-related regimes.

ཚེ་རིང་དབང་འདུས། ༉ གཞུང་གིས་ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ ཡོན་ཕུ་ལ་ལུ་ སྐལ་སྐྱིད་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཟེར་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ནང་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཐོག་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༨ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལས་བྱེད་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༤ པའི་ནང་ ལས་བྱེད་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གིས་ ཐད་ཀར་དུ་ ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་ རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལྷན་ཁག་ལུ་ ཡོན་ཕུ་ལ་ལུ་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༧ པའི་ནང་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཚུགསཔ་སྦེ་ འབད་དགོ་ཟེར་ སླབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་ རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་བློན་པོ་ ཡིད་བཟང་ཌི་ཐ་པ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ གི་ བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་གནས་ཚུལ་ཞལ་འཛོམས་སྐབས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ གོང་ལུ་གསལ་བཀོད་འབད་དེ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚེས་གྲངས་ཁར་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ལུ་ ངེས་གཏན་མེད་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ དུས་ཡུན་ཟླཝ་དག་པ་ཅིག་ འགོར་ནི་བཟུམ་འདུག་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

བློན་པོ་གིས་ འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ལྷག་ཁག་གི་ ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོད་རུང་ དེ་ཁར་ ལཱ་འབད་དགོཔ་ལེ་ཤ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོ་ སླབ་མི་ཚུགས་པས་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སློབ་གྲྭའི་དོན་ལུ་ ད་ལྟོ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་གུ་ལུ་ ད་རུང་ འཆར་གཞི་གྲོས་གཞི་ཚུ་ བཙུགས་དགོཔ་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

བློན་པོ་གིས་ དེ་ཁར་ ཉམས་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ ལཱ་འབད་དགོཔ་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ད་ལྟོ་ སྡེ་ཚན་ཚུ་ ཡོན་ཕུ་ལ་གི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ ལཱ་འབད་བར་ བཏང་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ལཱ་ཚུ་ ག་དེ་མགྱོགས་མགྱོགས་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་འོང་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ཆོས་ཚན་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སློབ་གྲྭ་གཞན་ཚུ་ནང་ བཟུམ་སྦེ་ར་ བཟོ་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ བློན་པོ་གིས་ འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་དེ་ཚུ་ལུ་ དུས་རྒྱུན་གྱི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ འབད་དགོཔ་མེད་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལུ་ ཤུགས་ཐལ་མི་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ བསྐྱར་གསོ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་བཞག་སྟེ་ སྨན་བཅོས་དང་ འདི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ སློབ་སྦྱོང་ཚུ་ཡང་ འབད་བཅུག་ཞིནམ་ལས་ སྨན་བཅོས་ཚུ་འབད་ཚར་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་ ཧེ་མའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ ལོག་བཏང་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

གསོ་བའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་དེ་ སློབ་རིམ་༧ པ་ཡན་ཆད་ལས་ འབད་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིནམ་ད་ གལ་སྲིད་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལོག་སྤྱོད་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན་བྱུང་པ་ཅིན་ ན་གཞོན་དེ་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ བཏང་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

གཞུང་གིས་ སྐལ་སྐྱིད་སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ ཧ་ལམ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡༦༠ དེ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ མཁོ་སྒྲུབ་འབད་དེ་ ཀོ་བིཌ་གི་སྨན་ཁང་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ གསོ་བའི་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ འཁོར་ལམ་བསལ་ནི་ གསང་སྤྱོད་ཉམས་བཅོས་འབད་ནི་ གློག་མེ་བཙུགས་སྒྲིག་འབད་ནི་ འཐུང་ཆུ་ལངམ་སྦེ་ བཙུགས་ནི་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཚུ་ འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཟད་འགྲོ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨ དེ་ཅིག་ བཏང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།

ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་དེ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ སྟོངམ་སྦེ་ར་ ལག་ལེན་མ་འཐབ་པར་ ལུས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

བློན་ཆེན་ ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ བཤད་མིའི་ནང་ གོང་འཕེལ་འགྱོ་བའི་བསྒང་གི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཅིག་འབདཝ་ལས་ སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ མི་མང་གི་གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་ཚུ་ སྣང་མེད་སྦེ་ བཞག་ནི་དེ་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་མེན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཁོ་གིས་ འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ གོ་སྐབས་དང་པའི་ གྲས་ཁར་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ དེ་ཁར་ ཟད་འགྲོ་བཏང་སྟེ་ ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་དེ་ལཱ་ཚུ་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཚུགས་ཟེར་ ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ དར་དཀར་རབ་སྡེ་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ འཕགས་པའི་དགེ་འདུན་ཚུ་གིས་ ཉིན་གྲངས་༥ འབད་མི་ དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༡༡ པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༨ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

༉ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ སློབ་དཔོན་༧ རིགས་གཅིག་མཁས་པའི་མཆོག་འཛིན་(Phd)གྱི་ ལས་རིམ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ སློབ་ཐུན་༤ པ་འི་ ལྟ་སྐོར་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ དགའ་ལྡན་དང་ འབྲས་སྤུངས་ཀྱི་གདན་ས་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉམས་མྱོང་འཐོབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ཟླཝ་༦ གི་རིང་ ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྟ་སྐོར་ལུ་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་སྟེ་ ལོག་ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྟ་སྐོར་སྐབས་ གདན་ས་ཁག་གི་ དཔེ་ཁྲིད་གནང་ཐངས་དང་ རྩོད་པའི་རིམ་པ་ ཚན་རིག་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་་ འདི་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ བགྲོ་གླེང་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ ལས་རིམ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ལྷག་པར་དུ་ ཞིབ་འཚོལ་དང་ རྩོམ་བྲིས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་ལས་ ལོགས་སུ་སྦེ་ར་ ལས་རིམ་ཚུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

འདི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ འབྲུག་གི་བཤད་གྲྭའི་ སློབ་དཔོན་༣ ཡང་ ཁ་སྐོང་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ཤེས་ཡོན་ལྟ་སྐོར་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ གྲལ་གཏོགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ལས་རིམ་དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ གདན་ས་༣ དང་ གྲྭ་ཚང་༦ གི་ མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་གཙོས་པའི་ གེ་ར་གིས་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ད་ལས་ཕར་ར་འབད་རུང་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ར་ གདན་ས་ཕན་ཚུན་དང་ ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཕན་ཚུན་གྱི་འབྲེལ་བ་ དམ་ཟབ་འབྱུང་ཚུགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ལུ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་ལྟེ་བའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་དགེ་ལྡན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་དང་ གདན་ས་༣ ལུ་ ཧིང་གི་གདིང་ལས་ར་ བཀའ་དྲིན་དགའ་ཚོར་ཡོད་ཟེར་ ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

བཙན་སྐྱོགས་དབང་འདུས།

༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འཐུས་མི་༡༠ མཐའ་བཅད་འབད་མི་ལས་ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་བརྩིས་ཏེ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤༠ སྒེར་སྡེའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ཡང་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ བློན་པོ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ཨིནམ་ད་ ཁོ་གིས་ སླབ་མིའི་ནང་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་བཀའ་རྒྱ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འཐུས་མི་སྦེ་ ནང་འཁོད་མཁས་མཆོག་༢ རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ བཙུགས་ཅི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཨིན་རུང་ བློན་པོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དཔལ་འབྱོང་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༢ པ་ འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ལས་ ད་རུང་ འཐུས་མི་སྦེ་ ནང་འཁོད་མཁས་མཆོག་བཙུགས་ནི་སྦེ་ ཐག་བཅད་ཅི་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ད་རེས་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་སྦེ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ལས་འཐུས་མི་ ངོ་རྐྱང་༤ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལུ་ ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་དང་ བར་མ་ དེ་ལས་ ནང་བཟོ་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ ལྷན་ཐབས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཁག་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ལས་ཁུངས་དེ་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ དྲུང་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ལས་ཚུར་ ད་ལྟོ་ཚུན་ཚོད་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༢ འཚོགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་དང་པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༠ ལུ་ འཚོགས་ཐོག་ལས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ འགན་ཚད་དང་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་ གཏན་འཁེལ་བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཞལ་འཛོམས་ནང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་དེ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ངལ་གསོ་མ་གཏོགས་ ཨ་རྟག་ར་ ཟླཝ་དེ་གི་ སྤྱི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ འཚོགས་ནི་སྦེ་ ཐག་བཅད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དེ་ལས་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་༢ པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢ ལུ་འཚོགས་ཏེ་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ གདམ་ཁའི་འཐུས་མི་༦ ཡོད་མི་ལས་༢ གདམ་འཐུ་འབད་བའི་ཁར་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་མཁས་མཆོག་༢ གྲོས་སྟོན་པ་སྦེ་ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༢ པའི་སྐབས་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཕྱོགས་སྡེ་ལུ་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་་བཅའ་ཡིག་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་དེ་ ལྷན་ཁག་བརྒྱུད་དེ་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ལུ་ སྙན་ཞུ་འབད་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ ཟླ་མཇུག་ལུ་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ཕུལ་དགོ་པའི་བཀའ་རྒྱ་གནང་ནུག།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༣ པ་ འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་ནིའི་ ལྷན་ཐབས་ལུ་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འགན་ཁུར་འབག་དགོ་པའི་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་གནང་ནུག།

ཁོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དམིགས་གཏད་ཅན་གྱི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལས་ མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ འོས་འབབ་བལྟ་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ གསུངས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་བཅའ་ཡིག་དེ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་དེ་ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་ཟླ་མཇུག་ལུ་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ཕུལ་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་བཀོད་ཚོགས་ནང་ བློན་ཆེན་ཁྲི་འཛིན་དང་ དངུལ་རྩིས་བློན་པོ་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་བློན་པོ་ ནུས་ཤུགས་དང་རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་དྲུང་ཆེན་ བཟོ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་དྲུང་ཆེན་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མདོ་ཆེན་ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་ གཡང་འཕེལ་སྒེར་སྡེའི་ཁྲི་འཛིན་ ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིག་འཛིན་ དེ་ལས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་དང་ མདོ་ཆེན་ལ་སོགས་པ་བརྩིས་ཏེ་ འཐུས་མི་༡༠ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

སྒེར་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ བཀོད་མིའི་ནང་ གཞུང་གི་འཐུས་མི་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ ཁོང་རའི་བསམ་ལན་ཚུ་ མི་ཤེས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ནང་ གྲལ་གཏོགས་འབད་མི་དེ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ ལས་འཛིན་ཚུ་ཨིནམ་ལས་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མི་སྦེ་ ངོས་ལེན་འབད་དགོ་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཁས་མཆོག་ ཌོག་ཊར་ཅཱན་ཌ་ར་ ཌ་ཀཱལ་གྱིས་ སླབ་མིའི་ནང་ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་ སྒེར་སྡེ་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་སྟེ་ འོང་འབབ་ཆེ་བའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ དམིགས་གཏད་དགོཔ་ལས་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ཚུ་ སྣང་མེད་སྦེ་ བཞག་ནི་མི་འོང་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

ཁོ་གིས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་བཤད་མི་ གདོང་ལེན་དང་ གོ་སྐབས་ཚུ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་དགོ་ཟེར་ ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

 

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