Agriculture Minister and staffs to leave cars every Tuesday

August 28: Agriculture Minister Pema Gyamtsho finds a new method to challenge the increasing fuel shortage and souring prices as he orders his ministry staffs to walk along to go office.

On Tuesday morning, staff of the agriculture ministry walked to their officer leaving vehicles back in home. Minister Gyamtsho also walked along with his staffs.

Minister said the initiative was also meant for protecting environment pollution cased by carbon emissions.

The tradition will now be followed every Tuesday with the theme ‘Helping our Environment, Health and Economy (HEHE) aimed at reducing air and noise pollution, vehicular traffic, increasing public space, improving physical health and reducing costs to the national exchequer.

Half of the 250 staffs in the ministry own vehicles. Minister further said, “We must take it on ourselves to do what we can to mitigate this risk. I strongly feel that, as the green sector with major responsibilities to address both our economic and environmental concerns, we should show the way for others to emulate.” Bhutan News Service