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Whenever it’s time to get his allowance that is, after every three months, his face lit up. Ninety years old, Nar Dhoj Rai, probably the oldest man in the sergithang gewog is a Gyalpo tozay recipient. He has been receiving the allowance since 2007 and receives eight hundred per month.
He lives in a
rugged house on the his brother’s land and has a wife and two daughter (one who
is married and lives at husband’s house and other just wanders in search of
work)
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| in front of his house |
Currently he
lives with his wife and owes few chickens. He always complains about his eye
sight and the leg pain BUT he continues to work in field and lead a happy life.
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| with his dear wife |
Indeed the allowance is blessing in disguise for
such disadvantage people. The kudos goes to our KING for being FAR-SIGHTED and
for bringing such kind of allowance in the system.
Tashi Dema
GAO
Sergithang
A very touching post!
ReplyDeletethank u
DeleteNice story Tashi. It would be great if people in that gewog can help them build at least a stable house for the old couple :)
ReplyDeletesince they dont have land of their own, its difficult to give them the permenant structure.... thank u for the comments
DeleteTashi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for highlighting the lives of people in rural Bhutan, adding to our understanding of why we need to do more to take care of the members of the larger community. Please keep posting your stories so we can learn more about Sergithang.
noted la
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