Jigme Singye Wangchuck Essays

Bhutan IAS project Bhutan, also know as the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a country in South Asia located in the Eastern Himalayas. It is a landlocked country which means it is almost entirely surrounded by land having no coastline. It is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region in the north, by India in the south, the Sikkim State of India; the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, and Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east. The region of Bhutan is the second least populous nation after the Maldives. It’s

operationalizing GNH by mainstreaming its elements into our plans and programs. (Gross National Happiness. Retrieved from http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/) GNH(Gross National Happiness) was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Druk Gyalpo King Jigme Singye

its isolationism and its cherished Lamaist traditions. Before the king Jigme Wangchuck introduced modern education system in Bhutan in 1960s Buddhist monastic institutions were the only source of formal education available to the Bhutanese people. History of Modern Education in Bhutan This Himalayan nation was geographically isolated from the rest of the world until 1961 when the third Druk Gyalpo , Jigme Dorji Wangchuck opened the nation to the rest of the world. The British Indian rulers, in