The lives of rural Bhutanese is expected to get better once the six projects for environment conservation is implemented.

From November this year, people in Sipsoo in Samtse and Sarpang will have a stone masonry and elephant trench built with solar electric fencing to keep the elephants away.

While up north the project would replace the shingle roofs of 236 houses in Merak and 139 houses in

Rural Electrification Project 24 June, 2011 - The Japanese government has agreed to give Bhutan a loan of USD 27M to Bhutan to electrify 3,549 households under the second phase of rural electrifica

Bhutan Power corporation (BPC) will soon study the possibility of installing wind turbines inside the hollow of rocket shaped transmission towers that would dot the hillsides.

MUSHALPUR, June 15

12 June, 2011 - Crop damage by wild elephants have become more rampant in several villages in Sibsoo ever since a 14 year-old boy in Hangay village died after being attacked by one.

12 June, 2011 - Crop damage by wild elephants have become more rampant in several villages in Sibsoo ever since a 14 year-old boy in Hangay village died after being attacked by one.

12 June, 2011 - Crop damage by wild elephants have become more rampant in several villages in Sibsoo ever since a 14 year-old boy in Hangay village died after being attacked by one.