Of sports infrastructures, eve-teasing and useless mobile apps, noise pollution and traffic congestion

Make sports infrastructure accessible to all We woke up to a bad news last Sunday. A group of boys were involved in a fight and one of them was stabbed. We learnt that one of the youth involved was my relative and it was breaking his parent’s hearts. As a relative and a father of a son myself, I was curious to know what made them do this. To this, he answered, “we were drunk.” I suggested that there are many avenues where he could engage himself like sports instead of going to bars. He said he likes football but football fields are only for the rich. He and his friends are university graduates without jobs, so they cannot afford to pay for the football field. He makes sense. Nu. 4,000 or 5,000 a match is way beyond their means. […]

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Of blue-color jobs, new NC members and the road and sewerage conditions in Thimphu

Make blue color jobs attractive Creation of employment is becoming a major challenge for the country. Some say that our youth are not taking up available jobs although jobs are aplenty, especially in the technical field and the blue color market. However, salaries in the private sector are not attractive in most cases. As a result, a large number of people are traveling aboard for jobs. It is said that the money our youth earn in Japan is not enough to live a comfortable life due to high cost of living there. The government should create more jobs in the country to employee VTI graduates. It should ensure justifiable wages and social security to make jobs at home attractive. This would encourage people to look for and take up jobs at home. Tashi Thimphu (Published on May 7, 2018) Time […]

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Encourage multi-storied building in urban areas

Being the capital, every one wishes to have properties in Thimphu. I feel that the government with the help of the Thromde, instead of restricting construction to a single storied house in the municipal areas could encourage residents to construct multi-storied buildings in the city so that we accommodate more people on a minimum acre of land. This could also aid in economical distribution of services like water and electricity and bring down the real estate cost. Some of the advantages could be: • The save space and accommodate more residents as compared to shorter buildings • Higher floors are relatively more airy & receive more sunlight • More economical One of the benefits of building a multi-storey home is that the living space is almost doubled depending on the number of floors when compared to a single storey home […]

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