The Technical Project Report on Climate SMART Human Settlement Planning and Development in Samdrup Jongkhar Thromde was launched jointly by the Hon'ble Zhabtog Lyonpo and the Resident Representative of World Bank Bhutan, Mr. Yoichiro Ishihara on June 28th, 2019 at Taj Tashi, Thimphu.

Mr. Tshering Tashi joined the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement as its Chief Human Resource Officer on 20th June, 2019.

The report, containing the final versions of the Bhutan Urban Policy Notes, was handed over by the Resident Representative, World Bank Country Office to the Secretary, MoWHS in the presence of officials from both the WBCO and the MoWHS on June 18, 2019.

The Partner Agreement (PA) was signed between the Gross National Happiness Commission, Department of Engineering Services (under MoWHS) and WMI on 24th May, 2019, in presence of officials from MoWHS for the pilot Project for strengthening the capacity of urban water services in Bhutan.

The Ministry's website has ranked 3rd among 134 websites evaluated for the year 2018/19