News and Events

Mass cleaning campaign

The NECS in collaboration with Desuung Office and other agencies started conducting a mass cleaning campaign on August 10th leading up to the border reopening in September.

Published on: 18-Aug-2022

Write-shop for development of Sandbox project proposal under the Water Roadmap

As per the Royal Command, the Water Resources Coordination Division of National Environment Commission Secretariat (NECS) conducted a write-shop from August 8-12, 2022 in Thimphu to develop a Sandbox project proposal to pilot the implementation under the Water Roadmap. 

 

Published on: 12-Aug-2022

E-flow Phase II: 6th Project Steering Committee meeting

The Water Resources Coordination Division conducted the 6th Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting for the project ‘Study on Minimum Environmental (E) Flow for Hydropower Projects in Bhutan – Phase II’ on August 10, 2022.  

 

Published on: 10-Aug-2022

Training workshop on E-flow unit IV: Sediment Transport

The Water Resources Coordination Division is conducting a training workshop on Unit IV Sediment Transport– from July 25-29, 2022 in Thimphu, as a part of the project titled ‘Study on Minimum Environmental (E) Flow for Hydropower Projects in Bhutan- Final Phase’. Of the nine units under the draft E-flow module, so far we have successfully completed Unit I, Unit II, Unit III and some portions of Unit V, VI and VIII.

 

Published on: 26-Jul-2022

Hands-on demonstration of E-flow equipment

As a part of the E-Flow project, the Water Resources Coordination Division of National
Environment Commission Secretariat carried out hands-on demonstration on the E-flow
equipment at Thimphu from July 14 -22, 2022.

Published on: 21-Jul-2022

Stakeholder Consultation meeting on BE Water Resource Engineering curriculum

The Water Resources Coordination Division (WRCD), National Environment Commission Secretariat (NECS) is conducting the stakeholder consultation meeting for validation of the Bachelor's of Engineering in Water Resources Engineering programme from July 11-12, 2022 in Thimphu.

Published on: 12-Jul-2022

2nd Taskforce meeting for development of Water Quality Monitoring guideline

The Water Resources Coordination Division (WRCD), National Environment Commission Secretariat (NECS) conducted the 2nd Task Force meeting for development of the Water Quality Monitoring guideline from June 27-28, 2022 at Thimphu. 

Published on: 28-Jun-2022

Blue Planet Prize 2022

National Environment Commission is extremely delighted and pleased to join the nation in offering our humble prayers and heartiest Tashi Delek to His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo on receiving the 2022 (31st) Blue Planet Prize. His Majesty the Druk Gyalpo is a true champion of environment.

Published on: 16-Jun-2022

Consultation meeting on Development of online ECS

The development of an online EC system has become very critical to enhance the Environmental Clearance (EC) service delivery. Therefore, workshop was conducted in Thimphu Dzongkhag from June 07 - 10, 2022.

Published on: 15-Jun-2022

World Environment Day 2022

World Environment Day is observed on 5th June to stimulate awareness and action on environmental protection and conservation and highlight the importance of a healthy environment to sustain human lives.

Published on: 06-Jun-2022