1.Announcement(Air Ticketing Quotation will be announced on ministry's website)

" From henceforth, all Air Ticketing quotation for the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement will be announced in the Ministry's web Site.Details regarding the quotation for specific travel sectors will be announced in the ministry's website as and when needed."

The Ministry has undertaken this step of announcing the Air Ticketing quotation on the ministry's website in order to ensure transparency and provide equal oppurtunities to all the agents.
click here for air ticketing Quotation

2. Announcement( New Director General for the Department of Roads)

The former Managing Director of Druk Air Sangay Tenzing has been appointed as the Director General of the Department of Roads.

The Director of the Department of Roads Phuntsho Wangdi has been appointed as the Director of Standard and Quality Control Authority.

3. Announcement (Tender/quotations to be announced on website)

This is to request all the Officials of the Departments, Divisions and Sections of the Ministry to give a copy of the Circulars, Office Orders and Tender Notifications to the IT-Unit to be published online inorder to ensure transparency and provide equal oppurtunities to all the agents.

You are also requested to give the soft copy of the tender document to the ICT Unit so that it can be published online on the ministry's website .

Therefore, the IT-Unit would like to request to all the heads of the Departments, Divisions and sections to kindly cooperate in providing and publishing the tender notifications online through the website.

IT-UNIT, MOWHS

4. Announcement (How to protect your PC from Viruses)

This is to inform all the users that, most of the computers are affected by virus through the sharing of Thumb drives.The viruses are spread when a user puts the thumb drive into another computer thus affecting other users also.Although the virus are being controlled from the central server, but it is very difficult to control from the sharing devices.

Therefore the IT-Unit of the Ministry would like to request all the officials to scan the thumb drives or any sharing devices with their Antivirus before opening the files into your computer.

The IT Unit would also like to infrom all the staffs to update their antivirus and if the users need any assistance please contact the ICT Unit for necessary actions.To update the latest virus definition and to download, please go to Downloads menu and the link for the latest virus definition update is given, in which you can download and keep you computer up-to-date from viruses.

The latest virus definition checks the latest virus that are being released and it will automatically scan those viruses and delete the viruses before the virus enters into your computer. Donot download from the site that are unknown for you, and if you have any problem for downloading anything from the net, please feel free to ask any of the IT Personnel to help you.

IT-UNIT, MOWHS

4. Protecting Your Computer Against Viruses

This will help you with the reasons and solutions to protect yourself from viruses from different threats.
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5. Announcement

All DrukNet mail users from other ISPs in Bhutan will not be able to use the SMTP Settings of DrukNet (viz smtp.druknet.bt) from the 15th of July. This is a general practise of all ISPs to enhance security and performance. Therefore for customers using DrukNet mail, please contact your ISP for the change in the POP Settings. Customers will however be able to use the POP Settings (viz pop3.druknet.bt).

To enhance the security features of all DrukNet email users using email clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, DrukNet will now ask for an SMTP Authentication starting from the 15th of July.

We have tested the SMTP Authentication for various email clients such as Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird. For email clients such as Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook, clients will be able to only receive mail.

Tests on Thunderbird has shown that it allows SMTP authentication and users using Thunderbird as an email client will not face any problems. We would thus like to request all users to switch to the Thunderbird email client for enhanced security in your mails.

By Druknet.. ISP