Radi (or ''Radhi'') is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Trashigang District
Trashigang District ( Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
in eastern
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 ...
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Radi is a town located in the northern part of Trashigang. It is popularly known as the rice basket of the east. Following the royal decree, Bhutan became a democracy in 2008. Jigme Tshultrim is the first Member of Parliament from the Radi-Sakteng constituency which comprises four ''gewogs'' (blocks) named Radi, Phongmey, Merak and Sakteng. At the national assembly, Jigme Tsheltrim holds the post of the speaker.
Radi has a middle secondary school, a basic health unit, a ''gup'' (head of the local government), and an animal husbandry office. The area where the school is located is commonly known as ''fai singma,'' which means "a new house". This name was derived from when the school building was new in 1960s.
Today, the ''gewog'' is connected by roads to almost all its villages and also to the neighbouring ''gewogs''. The ''gewog ''was electrified from the Rangjung mini hydro power plant in 1998.
Rice is the main staple of food in Radi, but maize and other vegetables are also grown. However, paddy cultivation is solely dependent on monsoon rain which usually begins in June.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bhutan
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