His Majesty Visits

His Majesty visited Darla Gewog on 17/10/2015. It was a history to have an audience with His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck at Rinchentse Helipad, Darla. No king had visited before in Darla. His Majesty’s plan was to visit our school, but due to some busy schedule, the Majesty and His entourages arrived very late in the evening. Our school and staff were asked to go down to Rinchentse. So, we walked in line for almost three kilometers to be picked by buses on the way. The school was very unlucky and unfortunate to have missed the Royal visit. We had splendorous and pompous preparation for His Majesty's visit to our school for almost a week. But anyways, we were extremely lucky to have the audience at Rinchentse with the public of Darla and neighboring villages. Thousands of people assembled on the ground. Many people were said to have come early in the morning from 5am. The audience was graced with His Majesty's presence at 5pm. The Majesty gave a royal speech on how happy he was to be with the people. He also talked about being a good citizen and taking care of children – sons and daughters. The Majesty also served Tokha to the people. People also received His Majesty's booklet with a Coronation coin in it. There were also some dances from the public of Darla and students of Darla MSS. Bhutanese comedians, Gyem Tshering and Gyam Dorji broke out many witty jokes; and there were lots of mirth and joys. When people came out, people were all smiles to have received a beautiful portrait of His Majesty the King and The Queen.  

Senseless to Be in Senses

You see around many things, you concurred and fabricated and take part, you hurt, making you both helpless and sad. And happy and hopeful. You have the sense to feel all these. But when you are separated from your senses you feel nothing, it’s ecstasy and just a fantasy of illusionist life.

  

The senselessness of being

Fills heaven with rainbows.

Everything is you; a life and the universe.

You will shout, sing and dance,

In the space, you occupy.

Now, be in sense, eyes wide open;

Feels the darkness and light,

Sunshine and harsh wind.

Trails of soft, iron trails,

Each denuding life.

These are invisible threads en route to

the common destination: the grave.

Books are bound, framed and forced,

Weeping, smiling they are taught naught.

Perfection and decency are treasures,

Things forgotten and unlearned.

Aging, we grow experienced, then what?

We’re pulled down to the grave.

Reading Week 2015

Reading Week is organized in our school every year with an intent of helping our students understand the importance of reading and the infinite benefits it facilitates in their growth in academics as a student. Moreover, it betters human in their individual and social life spheres.  In accordance with the plan set at the preset of the academic year, it was organized from 7 to 12 of September 2015.  This year’s theme was “Read, Lead and Succeed.”  During the week, some special reading activities were initiated so as to facilitate an opportunity for more students to take part in the reading activities and thereby develop and inculcate an the interest of reading within them. 

Readers’ Theatre

Readers’ theatre was conducted as a competition item between the sections of grade PP-III.  It was interesting to see the tiny tots of our school presenting themselves as little narrators and various fanciful characters in their creative costumes and attire as kings, queens, butterflies, birds, etc. Their babbling speeches and sing-song narrations did create an effective ambiance and were appreciated by everyone.  The presentations were evaluated based on creativity and coordination and prizes were awarded accordingly. 

Winners

·         PP A

·         I A

·         II A

·         Iii A & B

Random Reading

This reading activity was conducted for students classes VII – X to check their ability to read Dzongkha and English fluently and their preparedness and confidence to speak before an audience.  They were instructed beforehand to ready with two passages, in English and Dzongkha, and read it out as the coordinator of the day randomly called out their roll numbers in the assembly.  The activity went well as we planned and had the desired result.

Selected Reading

This activity was for the students from classes IV-VI.  Some of the students who were identified by the teachers were concerned readout either pieces of news or interesting information they wanted to share with their fellow students in the assembly. This activity was also successful though many of the students who came forward couldn’t be permitted to present their reading due to time constraints in the assembly. 

Quiz

A mini-quiz of two questions related to books and reading was also initiated to evaluate the students’ awareness of popular books, writers and some common literary terms.  And prizes were awarded instantly to the winners.

Book Talk

As on every Friday, two students presented reviews of an English and a Dzongkha book.  The reviews are helping the students to get acquainted with the interesting books in the library and rouse their curiosity to read them.

Mass Reading

To facilitate more time for general reading, an hour was created, on Thursday, by deducting five minutes from each period.  So, after the instructional hours, all students and teachers came out to the open, settled in conducive places and read books of their choice for an hour.

We are very happy to note here that all the activities we had envisaged went well, leading this year’s Reading Week into a grand success.  It is hoped that our plans for such activities in the future will also meet with the same grandeur and success.

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.

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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.