Political scenario of Bhutan: Then and now

According to Cumming and Wise (1997) democracy is a word that comes from two Greek roots, demos, the populace, and Kratia, rule- taken together, “rule by the people.” The denotative meaning of the word democracy itself reveals the fact that, it is the form of government where the right to rule the country is fully bestowed upon the people of the nation. According to Ziomek (2013) democracy has become one of the dominant forms of government in the world today with the total of 123 out of 192 nations which he attributes the spread of it to multinational corporations, international institutions, societies capable of interacting with their governments. In the light of above line, Bhutan adopted the full system of democracy in 2008 despite earlier existence of democratization process since 1953, the system of government which was instituted not through people’s want but instituted as a mere gift from the golden throne. Sithey (2013) rightly quoted “Bhutan defies standard models of democrat...

Bureaucracy is an official system where the bureaucrats control the smoothness in availing any public service through execution of numerous rules and processes. It leads to nepotism, favouritism  and corruption. Bhutan is a small country constituted by limited population, but flaws in bureaucracy is prevalent eveb in close-knit society like ours. Bureaucracy thus snatches people's confidence to avail the opportunity provided by any government organizations which involves long and complicated processes. The well off and reputed high-ranking officers can avail services without having followed the required procedures but the poor villagers have to undergo the whole procedures to avail the same service. Sample of incident... A poor villager from remote Bhutan sets to Thimphu for getting his land registered. He had to wait for weeks to meet the concerned officer. Depite the poor man going to the relevant office every week, it will take years to get it done. Bureaucrats they are much ...