Reading Week 2015

As a part of the reading year, Darla school also celebrates reading week this year with our theme: Read, Lead, and Succeed. We celebrate reading week every year. This year too reading week started from 7^th Sep. There are many reading activities like reading theater, random reading, selected reading, quiz, book talk, mass reading to name a few. Prizes were also given for the best readers. Happy Reading Year!!! 

Reading Theme 2015

Making Ready for Reading by class 3 students

In an action

A Business is to be Noted

One of the most significant need in life is money. Companies and individuals business make profit. The celebration and festivities woo the mind of people to buy and try; to ask them to keep the things of the event. The World Olympic event in China or Independence Day celebration or National Day is only money. Like anywhere, the 60^th anniversary has become a profit making anniversary in Bhutan. Like reading year for book keepers, the celebrations are lucrative business for many money minded people. Many groups of people came to our school bringing wall clock bearing the HM’s portrait, lotteries based on the celebration, badges, and other.

Suppose in our school, every student has to buy a badge; and everyone has to pay nu. 50/- each for the badge. And today our students got the new badge with the 4^th king portrait on it. They were happy to be with the king, but not with the quality of the badge as it would worth not more than nu.20/- The pins from the badge comes out without any reasons. And the HM photo isnt clear.

Badge for my class

A Golden Handshake-a solution to Unemployment

The government has failed to frame a long-term employment policy, without which there is a danger of our youth going astray, thereby disrupting and pressurising the path of development strategies. It is also noted that an employment otherwise would be for a few well-connected individuals.

According to a recent report prepared by the Ministry Labour and Human Resources, the unemployment rate is 2.9 percent and the country’s youth unemployment stands at 9.6 percent.

This year too, almost half of the 3,322 university graduates appeared the preliminary examination for 434 vacancies in the civil service. This means at least three graduates will be vying for a slot in the civil service this year. The unemployment figure is rising. According to the labour ministry’s press release, the national unemployment rate has decreased by 0.3 percent in 2014 from 2013, which is not actually true.

Google Guru

The government must now think of absorbing graduates. One of the best ways of giving jobs is to replace old servants with new, skilled seekers. The labour force participation rate is estimated at 62.6 percent in 2014, (those between 16-45) and they are considered economically active group than those who are economically inactive due to old age. One of the schemes of making the workforce is Voluntary Retirement Scheme. This is generous, can be tax-free severance payment to persuade the employees to voluntarily retire from the company, which is called a ‘Golden hand Shake’ as it is the golden route to retrenchment. It can be a better way of creating jobs for an active group of people.

A golden handshake is essentially a severance or kind of compensation made to employees through several ways, such as cash, or stock options, or other incentive packages. It’s an agreement between an employee and employer when they leave jobs or retire voluntary-credit as a retirement incentive. The golden parachute agreement customarily is used as a lure to create jobs and give opportunities to jobs to young people in the country. As young people enter jobs, they tend to perform better than old oldies.

Some benefits under this scheme are better emoluments; the employee will get the provident fund and gratuity dues at the earlier year so that he/she can use for house construction, and for family subsistence. It is a lucrative settlement that prevents resentment at old age. It also offers the best and human route to retrenching excess employees. Sometimes, voluntary nature precludes the need for enforcement.

The people most likely to take advantage of the Golden Handshake(GH) are people who would retire anyway. For example, employees who are more than 50 years old and have more than 25 years of service should be eligible for GH. If this tenure has to be taken in, 1000 or more jobs could be created in a year than mare 434. Offering the GH might encourage a few additional employees to retire sooner. And those bogus employees opt for retirement and for the benefit anyway, and then the new experiencers would result in a higher quality job.

As an alternative to the Golden Handshake, there could be a Lump Sum Incentive program in which retirement-eligible employees were offered a lump sum incentive. These can include cash, a house, or stocks options, or other packages for life-long for a personal sacrifice of early retirement. For example, an employee at least 50 years old who retires by the close of the fiscal year is offered the opportunity to receive lump sum incentives.

Darla School Annual Concert

Darla school is gearing up for an upcoming Annual Concert show which will take place for two days on 28-29^th of August 2015.The school has been preparing almost for a month for the final show. Different in- charges and coordinators are given different items to be practiced. Students, teachers, and school have been busy after school. Everyone couldn’t think about hanging around and losing time like that. When days crawl near, students and teachers bump here and there looking for participants, but to see only their own participants in other programs. It is good that each student is allowed to take part in only three items for maximum participation, and it’s also not taken seriously by our students. During rehearsal, there were some students taking part in four or more items. So be it, I say. Good dancers should. Even monkeys can dance when the music is on.

Our teachers, students and councilors are busy selling tickets for the show. The cost of the ticket is nu. 80. And the last year it was nu.70. This is the much mauled and ranted in the school when it comes to any collection. Where does the money go? It is too much? Are some of our not- a –sweet- talk among our students. And this is something to be criticized that is sometimes true. Last year, the show made a huge money and now there was no talk about it. There was a presentation in one of the various meetings that were used for buying stage decoration clothes and related things like that. But the stage remained the same or it had become poorer than before. The back wall of the stage is scratched, smeared, and blotted with so many tints of colors. The floor planks have become shaking pendulums and risky for our participants. And there was no musical instrument, no lighting amenities, no good sound boxes, and NO. But YES when it comes to working??

Anyways, we hope everything will be better this year. And HOPE we must. And like last year, our Darla community will come and watch the show. The show is all about showing the talents and abilities of our and your students. This show is dedicated and honored to our fourth Druk Gyalpo and Je khenpo on their 60^th birth anniversary. The school is also building a Jangchub chorten for the well-being of all. Come, watch the differences!

All set to go with the ticket on circulation

Invitation cards send to every individual around the school

Human Values Workshop

Darla school staff attended Human Values Workshop in Gedu for three days beginning from 13-15^th of August. I am reproducing some important topics that the workshop covered during these three days. When there was a feedback session, everyone said how changed everyone was at the end of the workshop. In the beginning, the content was similar to our eight-fold paths, and it actually was derived from there.

The session starts with this proposal, an ambiguous one:

“Whatever is said is a Proposal (Do not assume it to be true/false)

Verify it on Your Own Right – on the basis of your Natural Acceptance “

It also defines the role of education.

“The role of education is to facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct.”

And transformation is equal to development as far as the workshop. This is the diagrammatic summary of human values.

Transformation = Development

Right Understanding is all we need

And Preconditioning leads to many undesirable activities

 

The self and body...i like this part the most. Everything submerges in the space. Where does the self go from the space? 

Payment is NOT Enough

The salary I get by the end of the month is finely calculated and split. There are times when a meager salary cannot make a day stay in the account. It’s good it doesn’t occupy a space in the bank. By the end of the month, the credit would amount to nu. 10000/- or more leaving still in debt. I hardly get nu. 13,0000/-. This is how my money splits in a month.

1.       House rent: nu. 2,500/-

2.       TV bill: nu. 300/-

3.       Electric bill: nu. 100/- plus

4.       Car petrol: nu. 1,500/- or more depending on the emergency

5.       School collection: nu. 500/- or sometimes it amounts to more than 1000/-

6.       A miscellaneous donation like religious purpose: nu. 300/-

7.       Visiting sick people: nu. 300/- or more

8.       Visiting relatives: nu.300 or more

9.       Veggies, rice; foodings: nu. 3000/-

10.   For a child: nu. 200/-

Total=10,000/-

The salary I get now is nu. 13,314/- after a heavy loan deduction. The meager salary is not really enough. The expenditure escalates more than what I receive sometimes. We don’t have any money left for holidaying or such extra income for any kind of family trip.

This is a little bill of a rough calculation incurred in this month and is prepared by my wife.

And this donation comes frequently.

I really feel that teachers and doctors/hospital staff have to be paid handsomely because services like teachers are ‘sitting penniless on a beach job’; no TA/DA, no training, no outside tour, no nothing. Only a dry and meager monthly salary. I hardly know how to fill up TA/DA. I sometimes fail to say what TA/DA stands for.