I do not criticise for no reason. I am no hypocrat for no reason. Bhutan can not afford to have neither hypocrats nor incompetent bureaucrats. If I say RCSC is a useless organisation that our government is spending millions to feed its bureacrats who are so much incompetent without any reason, may be I am a real hypocrat, but as you see it, not once, not twice, but how many times shall we keep tolerating and remain silent hearing about RCSC’s incompetency? Why is RCSC given a status of a constitutional body? Why is it included in the constitution in the first place? If it was done that way, I know the fathers of our constitution must have done with a good intention so that this body serves as a regulating body in the civil service like the Federal Bureau of Investigation which deals with all the cases involving federal matters including making rules, promoting officials, investigating the scandalous corrupted officials, and remove the crooks in the government. But, what does our RCSC do? It makes rules and it breaks it. PCS was introduced by the RCSC and it should be leading the example. However, instead of applying the PCS rules it had made, RCSC hand pick officials to the various vacant posts. What the hell is wrong with RCSC? One day it announces one thing and another day it forgets what it announced!. More than closing the gaps and building bridges of understanding between the people on grounds of implementation of rules, it has become a law breaker itself giving many excuses. For example, so many of the engineers are in limbo. Why?. Why did RCSC revoke their promotions when it promotes officials to various other posts everyday these days without any announcements in the media fo open competitions according to the PCS?. How can RCSC say, for these engineers, that PCS must apply and their promotion criteria do not adhere to the new PCS rules? If these engineers must adhere to the PCS, why are so many other officials being promoted to various posts these days without fulling the PCS criteria?. Where is the rationality?. I quote one engineer from the KOL, “The matter is being juggled among the various agencies to drag the issue till it wanes,” and that is in fact what RCSC is very good doing at. Ask civil servants and they will all say that their matters were juggled up and down for no obvious reasons by the RCSC. Ask students and they will all say that they were made to run up and down between the agencies without any good reason. Some even say they had worn down many pairs of shoes going to the RCSC. What does it imply?. It implies RCSC is so very incompetent and inefficient. The idea of having RCSC is good in principle, but I think, we need to reconsider having it.  The senators and the MPs must debate this issue in the Assembly after the election. RCSC is becoming so much redundant and worthless. Our country do not have so much money and resource to waste.

I am really fed up with our RCSC and hearing about it because you hardly hear a good thing about it.Am I wrong? You decide.
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Ap Wangdrugay, I think this topic is quite pertinent. It is time we rethink the credibility of the RCSC. Civil servants are supposed to deliver service to the people but the apex body of the Civil Service is a bunch of “I know all, you are useless” kind of people. Probably that is why the service delivery of our organizations is very poor. RCSC is supposed to monitor that and with themselves in shambles, they cannot point fingers to others because hundreds of others will point back at them.

RCSC is utterly useless, that I think was established a long long ago and ever since true to their “Utterly Useless Tag” they have been proving it time and time again, less we forget. For example, take the promotion saga under PCS, when they want to promote someone they like, in-spite of it not being allowed under PCS, they will just go ahead and do it & then they will revoke the promotions of people they don’t care about because it is not allowed under PCS guidelines. RCSCs mandate is to facilitate the growth of the civil service in a fair and transparent manner, what we seem to be getting from them is one helluva lot of bureaucratic bull shit.

And then we have this perennial Bhutanese problem where no one will ever admit to having made a mistake and in adopting PCS the RCSC blundered big time, yet no heads rolling.

Is it RCSC to be blamed? or is it not the person who is running the organisation. of late we hard lots n lots of complain from all walks of life. for sure there is an element in the person who runs the RCSC with a personal interest. there is no integrety in his post. we have notice his nepotism every where. we need to question such act. we do not want our children to come under such society who cares no respect other then his own benefit. as like anywere what we need to question is the leader in the organisation for such lapeses and failure. what do u think plz. share. i have not personal hard feeling to anyone but can’t wait in silence
when such thing are clearly visible. we hard that some one who is looking after his construction site has been given chance to do PhD in USA, n he is his own person. surprisingly there is a big question ????

One important reason why corruptions in our country tend to perpetuate is because we people are not very specific about it. We shout and make a hell noise of it, but I think we will gain more credibility if we can also validate the accusations we make rather then just whiffing around here and there. In this regard, Kunchosum, can you validate your points about that guy sent to do PhD in the States?

hi can u all bring some important issues, related to our party election

These companies are the largest exporters in bhutan after power and may probably take over power also by next year. Yet they are so low profile, no big office, no staff or workers, no signboards sounds really like a scam.

Probably you can get the information from the Ministry of trade & industry or will they also hide the facts. who knows who are all involved in this scam

The Indians would come after us, no way, all the officers concerned are taken care off by the Indian partners. infact they are probably protected.

The problem would only come if a special interest group gets to know of this scam and rakes up the issue in india.

Hi BT readers and posters,

I am a regular reader of BT, but I never had the itch to sign up and become a poster until I read the news on software giants of Bhutan on KOL.

This is a case of money laundering. There is no doubt about it. Dear fellow Bhutanese, if this is not stopped as soon as possible, it has the sure potential to cripple the Bhutanese economy.

You may wake up one day and find that all the savings you hold in Ngultrums are only as good as paper.

I thought that such things went on only in the small island nations of the Pacific Ocean. Those nation’s influential people were used by the Mafia to launder money. But finally they paid dearly for it.

When I read about those nations, I felt scared that even the Bhutanese leaders could do it if they really want because we lack much check and balances in our financial sector. I felt happy that at least the leaders in Bhutan cared about the whole country, and not just about enriching themselves.

But now...the software and copper giants prove that I am wrong. It seems that as long as they can get rich, they do not care about our country’s stability and security.

This business has little contribution to Bhutanese exchequer if any, but is as harmful to our country as the ULFA militants that once took shelter in our jungles.

I wonder why even our ex. finance minister and MTI minister did not do anything to stop it. Are they also scared of the software and copper giants? If so, who will stop them? Does our HM know about it?

I have no idea who these software giants are. But what ever they are doing is surely no good for Bhutan. I hope they realise it.

Already, profits have been made. Enough is enough. All I want to ask is that this should be stopped from now. Or else, we may pay very dearly for it.

Money laundaring through gigantic export of software and copper doesn’t bring in any dollar to the country in real terms. Despite being a threat to the economy and the overall threat to the country in the short and long term, such exports have been allowed to happen. Why? yes, like Aquarian mentioned, the trade minister, trade director including the prime minister have to explain this matter. Other than the small bits and pieces of information here and there we have not been able to uncover the full detail as why such export took place or was allowed. It indeed is a very unpleasant surprise that such a big business remained out of the focus of our media and broadcast channels.

Anti-corruption commission has to start investigating this case and those responsible for the export as well as those in-charge of overseeing such transactions have to be brought to justice. Moreover, these culprits should be made to pay the whole amount to the govt
I really don’t care about the money laundering or the huge profits made by these business afterall it is Indian black money which is being laundered and we do not have any vanaspati or copper industries to protect in Bhutan.

what really irritates me is that these business which are owned by non bhutanse make huge profits without paying even a cheltrum of tax utilizing our resources while our strugulling small time businessman are made to pay taxes through their noses.

It really makes me sad to see our importers who import a container of goods to resell in the market being harrased by the custom officials and made to pay taxes upto 70% leaving them with small profits. These strugulling people trying to make their lives and their children’s lives better bear the brunt of the rules thought about by our officers while containers and containers are brought in by those rich business houses.

It makes me sad to see our taxidrivers, shopkeepers, small contractors, farmers, small business and even salaried people being harrased to pay all kinds of taxes like BST, Income tax, TDS etc while these big houses pay 0 tax.

Ask any revenue & custom official how much tax these software company, vanapati company or copper company pay after having done business of 350 crores in 2006. They will confirm to you that they paid 0 % tax. ask them how much profit they made they will say 100% profit. It it fair