Thromde
A thromde (Dzongkha: ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་; Wylie: khrom-sde) is a second-level administrative division in Bhutan. The legal administrative status of thromdes was most recently codified under the Local Government Act of 2009, and the role of thromdes in elections in Bhutan was defined in the Election Act of 2008
Thromde administration
Thromde administration is a product of the Bhutanese program of decentralization and devolution of power and authority.[1]: Preamble Thromdes are administered independently by a Thromde Tshogde if sufficiently developed and populated (Class A Thromdes); or directly by Dzongkhag Administration or the Gewog Administration as decided by the Government (Class B Thromdes and Yenlag Thromdes). From time to time, Parliament decides the boundaries of Thromde in consultation with the National Land Commission Secretariat and local authorities.[1]: §§ 11–18, 85
Each Thromde Tshogde is composed of seven to ten elected members and headed by a Thrompon. Thromde Tshogdes are empowered to regulate advertising, enforce public health and safety rules, and to levy taxes on land, property, property transfer (sales tax) and, "betterment." The municipal governments are also authorized to levy special taxes on vacant and underdeveloped land to encourage development, and to raise and spend money in to promote local economic development.[1]: §§ 61–65
The administrations overseeing Class B Thromdes and Yenlag Thromdes are tasked with encouraging and overseeing their progressive development into Class A Thromdes – locally governed municipalities.[1]: § 17
Although Class A and Class B Thromdes were established ahead of local elections in 2011, Yenlag Thromdes were to be declared only after the second parliamentary elections in 2013. This would be followed by another delimitation of the 16 Dzongkhag Thromdes (Class B) and a review of chiwog numbers and boundaries affected by the declaration of the Yenlag Thromdes.[2] In 2015 a list was approved by parliament of updated Dzongkhag and Yenlag Thromdes boundaries.[3] As of 2017 there are only four self-governing Thromde (Dzongkhag Thromde class A) : Thimphu,[4] Phuentsholing,[5] Gelephu[6] and Samdrup Jongkhar.[7][8]
History
Under the Geog Yargay Tshochung of 2002, gewog administration included non-votingTshogpa, representatives of villages or village clusters.[9] Through the enactment of the Act of 2009, gewogs were divided administratively into representatives by chiwogs, or village groups.[10]
The Local Government Act of 2007 was the first piece of Bhutanese legislation to provide distinctions among thromdes, dividing them into two classes: Dzongkhag Thromdes, which lacked the developmental capacity to form administrations in their own right; and Gyelong Thromdes, which were independent, non-legislating municipalities administered by a Gyelyong Thromde Tshogdu (Gyelyong administration). Each Gyelong administration was headed by an Executive Secretary. The administrative role of Gyelong Thromde Tshogdus were largely analogous to later roles for more developed municipalities.[10][11][9]
The Constitution of 2008 confirmed the status of thromdes, providing for Thromde Tshogdes as the most basic level of some local government administration; for other thromdes, administration was provided directly through Dzongkhag Thromde representation by one elected member from Dzongkhag Thromdes, and a second from Dzongkhag Yenlag Thromdes. The Constitution provided the basic legal framework for thromde administrations in the terms that continue today.[12]
List of Thromdes
The following is a list of thromdes by dzongkhag, gewog, and rank:[13][14]
Dzongkhag | Gewog | Thromde.[15][16] | Rank[17][18] |
---|---|---|---|
Bumthang[19] |
Chhoekhor ཆོས་འཁོར་ |
Jakar or Bumthang[20] | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Chhukha[21] |
Bjachho བྱག་ཕྱོགས་ |
Tsimasham | Yenlag Thromde |
Phuentsholing ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ |
Phuentsholing | Dzongkhag Thromde Class A | |
Sampheling བསམ་འཕེལ་གླིང་ | |||
Dagana[22] |
Goshi སྒོ་བཞི་ |
Daga or Dagana | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Lhamoy Zingkha སྒོ་བཞི་ |
Lhamoyzhingkha | Yenlag Thromde | |
Gasa[23] |
Khatoe ཁ་སྟོད་ |
Gasa | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Khatoe ཁ་སྟོད་ |
Damji | Yenlag Thromde | |
Haa[24] |
Katsho སྐར་ཚོགས་ |
Ha or Haa | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Uesu དབུས་སུ་ | |||
Sama ས་དམར་་ |
Jyenkana | Yenlag Thromde | |
Lhuentse[25] |
Gangzur སྒང་ཟུར་ |
Lhuentse | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Tsenkhar སྒང་ཟུར་ |
Autsho | Yenlag Thromde | |
Mongar[26] |
Mongar མོང་སྒར་ |
Mongar | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Ngatshang སྔ་ཚང་ |
Yadi | Yenlag Thromde | |
Paro[27] |
Wangchang ཝང་ལྕང་ |
Paro | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Pema Gatshel[28] |
Shumar ཤུ་མར་ |
Pemagatshel | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Punakha[29] |
Guma གུ་མ་ |
Punakha | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Guma གུ་མ་ |
Lobeysa | Yenlag Thromde | |
Samdrup Jongkhar[30] |
Dewathang དབེ་བ་ཐང་ |
Samdrup Jongkhar | Dzongkhag Thromde Class A |
Dewathang or Deothang (merged with Samdrup Jongkhar Thromde)[31] | Yenlag Thromde | ||
Phuentshothang ཕུན་ཚོགས་ཐང |
Samdrupcholing | Yenlag Thromde | |
Samtse[32] |
Samtse བསམ་རྩེ་ |
Samtse | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Phuentshogpelri ཕུན་ཚོགས་དབལ་རི་་ |
Gomtu | Yenlag Thromde | |
Sarpang[33] |
Gelephu དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་ |
Gelephu | Dzongkhag Thromde Class A |
Gakiling, Shompangkha |
Sarpang[34] | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B | |
Thimphu[35] |
Chang ལྕང་ |
Thimphu | Dzongkhag Thromde Class A |
Kawang ཀ་ཝང་ | |||
Mewang སྨད་ཝང |
Khasadrapchu | Yenlag Thromde | |
Trashigang[36] |
Samkhar བསམ་མཁར་ |
Trashigang | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Shongpu ་ཤོང་ཕུག |
Rangjung | Yenlag Thromde | |
Trashi Yangtse[37] |
Bumdeling བུམ་སྡེ་གླིང་ |
Trashiyangtse | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Khamdang བུམ་སྡེ་གླིང་ |
Duksum[38] | Yenlag Thromde | |
Trongsa[39] |
Nubi ནུ་སྦིས་ |
Trongsa | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Dragteng ་བྲག་སྟེང |
Kuengarabten | Yenlag Thromde | |
Tsirang[40] |
Kikhorthang དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཐང་ |
Damphu[38] | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Mendrelgang མནྜལ་སྒང |
Mendrelgang | Yenlag Thromde | |
Wangdue Phodrang[41] |
Thedtsho ཐེད་ཚོ་ |
Wangdue Phodrang | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Wangdue Phodrang[42] |
Dangchhu ཐེད་ཚོ་ |
Nobding[38] | Yenlag Thromde |
Zhemgang[43] |
Trong ཀྲོང་ |
Zhemgang | Dzongkhag Thromde Class B |
Ngangla ངང་ལ་ |
Panbang | Yenlag Thromde |
See also
References
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- ^ Pem, Tandin (8 April 2011). "LG Election Period Begins". Bhutan Observer online. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
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- ^ this list is mainly based on Election Commission information; for duly approved thromde boundaries see the info on the website of the Ministry of Works and Human Settlements http://www.mowhs.gov.bt/publications/approved-thromde-and-boundaries/ Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ where available the Thromde name as per Ministry of Works and Human Settlements is given as alternative, see http://www.mowhs.gov.bt/publications/approved-thromde-and-boundaries/ Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Chiwogs in Pema Gatshel" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
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- ^ approved thromdes & boundaries 2010, part 1 on the website of the Ministry of Works and Human Settlements http://www.mowhs.gov.bt/publications/approved-thromde-and-boundaries/ Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ see approved thromdes & boundaries 2010, part 3, and 2015 revisions on the website of the Ministry of Works and Human Settlements http://www.mowhs.gov.bt/publications/approved-thromde-and-boundaries/ Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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