Comments on: Wanted: live TV

By: amep

amep — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:25:29 +0000

dear Honb’le OL.. Thank you soo much for the link. You proved me right. I always guessed Honb’le OL is there at our rescue! DPT is defaming their very ‘Dra Nam and Dra Then’. While the corporate employees work on an average 42.50 Hrs per week vs 38.33 Hrs per week for civil servants, at least extra hours of working need to be compensated for corporate employees even if DPT fails to understand the reason behind corporations!

By: chhimi

chhimi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:42:31 +0000

Its good the know that MPs have NAB email address. I dont think they will check their mails or at the least reply them. I would be surprised if they do.
Friends let me know if anyone of you get any response. No need to name them though.
Good luck!

By: Tshering Tobgay

Tshering Tobgay — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:25:15 +0000

Dear amep: see what I’ve written http://www.tsheringtobgay.com/government/2009/corporate-salaries-part-1.html
and http://www.tsheringtobgay.com/government/2009/corporate-salaries-part-2.html
i’ve also been talking to the people concerned.

By: amep

amep — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:23:59 +0000

Hon’ble OL, btw why are you soo quiet on the corporate pay revision or DIVISION by MOF? You r the only hope for the unmotivated, demoralized employees..

By: nima

nima — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:05:43 +0000

Dear Hon’ble OL,
I am a civil servant and I don’t even get to watch this LIVE telecast. Similarly, many of my fellow civil servants would have the same problem. The question however is not about whether one gets to watch the proceedings live or not, but it is certainly about my right, your right and the whole Bhutanese citizens’ right to information, being taken away.

Well, good luck to Hon’ble OL and Dasho Damcho for rest of the sessions.

The fact still remains that despite the DPT government’s attempt to justify their stance, no convincing reasons have been recorded as yet, at least to me. What intrigues me is the fact that some MPs including the speaker had taken it for granted that public wouldn’t understand the bills. Some even stated that the general public won’t be interested in viewing the mechanical processes of passing the bills. But the question is how a few of them can represent the views of all the Bhutanese without doing any survey/research. I presume that people would appreciate if whatever they said is evidence-based and not intuition-based.

However, to the least, I vouch that people would appreciate your effort even if nothing came out of it because of their sheer majority. As I have said, I can only applaud what your little team is doing. And I think those little things done genuinely in the interest of the general public would save your day, come 2013. Just being ‘real’ is good enough I guess!

Mr. SPEN ROONEY, for your information, Dawa (BBS) is currently doing some training abroad; otherwise he would have been the first person to do something through BBS I suppose.

By: Tobgay

Tobgay — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:58:06 +0000

unlike you, our member of Assembly do not seek opinion from the constituency, we cannot send e mail.

there must be reason for this:
either they think they know everything or
they don’t give a hoot for what you think

they feel smiling and talking to the public and shaking the farmers hand is good enough.

like it or lump it, we are stuck with our elected leaders for the next few years, I hope we survive till then.

By: Tshering Tobgay

Tshering Tobgay — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:46:05 +0000

Thank you, zimmy

By: zimmy

zimmy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:32:27 +0000

hey 2009,

visit http://www.nab.gov.bt/showmp.php if u want the email addresses of the mps

By: 2009

2009 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:54:08 +0000

give us the email address of the MP’s

By: Phub Dorji

Phub Dorji — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:46:11 +0000

Stopping BBS from live telecasting of the National Assembly Proceeding by the democratically elected government is not a good sign. It creates some sense of suspiciousness of the decisions that is going to take place in closed chamber. I doubt in the years to come, some other form of the Medias will also be banned from reporting. Government is already building tussle with the media? We general public wants to see how issue are raised and debated? How Honourable speaker takes the final decisions? Are decision taken correctly in the interest of the country? How bills are debated and passed? How our elected MPs taking part in the decisions? We want know their performance for re-election in the second term. This is democracy. Public are showing some concern that their representative are not vocal or never spoke in the Assembly other than during tea break and may be lunch time. Is this the reason to stop the coverage? The media coverage will surely give them opportunity to revamp themselves. It will portray good image to the public they are representing. One good thing we have noticed in most of the cases is all MP discusses individually representing their constituency and not as a member of DPT party. Otherwise with a weak opposition party conveying of NA will look like formalities. Bhutan is unfortunate to have weak opposition party, otherwise things will change completely. I promise, it will be a different story in the next election. If we can’t watch the proceeding these time, maybe we will watch after three years!!!