Gross National Happiness- The sacred philosophy and the development principle of Bhutan has been initiated and brought to practicality during the 34 years reign of His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck. His Majesty the King has always been reinforcing to keep the legacy immortal through setting examples, giving wonderful speeches and appreciating the initiatives related to GNH. The core value of Druk Phunsum Tshogpa, headed by His Excellency Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley has been directly derived from the philosophy. Subsequently, Ministry of Education has set curriculums on GNH, rather a subject in schools in which students had to undertake homeworks, practicals and other activities on GNH.
While the Ministry feels that the GNH would be promoted through insisting students to learn through practical involvement in the GNH activities, to a section of people, it has featured like a handy tool misused. Students has started naming toilets as as GNH toilets, GNH water tap, GNH garden, GNH tree, GNH footpath, GNH kitchen and so on. The nomenclature has featured out of sheer compulsion. Some of the students might have already planned to use GNH to some teachers because a student like Jamyang Chogyel from Nangkor HHS has already been awarded the GNH Boy certificate (Of course, his award routed through Committee and was fair).
In this sense, the profound philosophy of Gross National Happiness, expected to be respected, is misused.
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ReplyDeletePromoting the GNH through practicals is worth noting. But it looks weird to me naming every objects as GNH ..n so on.
ReplyDeletewhen rest of the country are happy our GNH...why our pple misuse......
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