Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (Bhutan) is ministry of

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

responsible for enabling provision of physical infrastructure, and embodying the Bhutanese cultural and traditional values to foster socio-economic development.

Departments

The Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS) has three departments: *Department of Roads *Department of Engineering Services *Department of Human Settlement These departments are supported by the Directorate Services, comprising the Human Resource and Finance Divisions, and the Procurement, Administration and ICT Sections. Three other agencies namely, the Bhutan Standards Bureau (erstwhile Standards and Quality Control Authority), National Housing Development Corporation and the Construction Development Board of Bhutan, which were previously part of the ministry, are now autonomous agencies.

Minister

* Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering *

Kinzang Dorji ''Lyonpo'' Kinzang Dorji (born 19 February 1951) is a two-time former Prime Minister of Bhutan from 2002 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2008. He was the chairman of Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan ( d ...

(2003 - 2007) *

Yeshey Zimba ''Lyonpo'' Yeshey Zimba (born 10 October 1952) is a political figure from Bhutan. He was Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of Bhutan two times: first from 2000 to 2001; then from 20 August 2004 to 5 September 2005. During thi ...

(11 April 2008 - ...) *

Dorji Choden ''Aum'' Dorji Choden (born 5 December 1960) is a Bhutanese politician. She was appointed minister of Bhutan's Works and Human Settlement Ministry in 2013, making her the first woman to serve as a minister in Bhutanese cabinet. Education She rece ...

(2013 - ...) *

Dorji Tshering Dorji Tshering () is a Bhutanese politician who has been Minister for Works and Human Settlement since November 2018. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018. Early life and education Tshering was born . He ...

(7 November 2018 - ...)

References

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