Through LENS

Guided by the philosophy of GNP, People took sustainability of its kind as an implicit goal but began to exploit, extract and produced comforts and luxuries. Those countries who lagged behind hoped to catch up and those who are ahead spurred on to keep their lead to extract, produce and consume more, and created a consumerist market economy. We have been cutting down trees blindly and emitting harmful gases in the atmosphere thereby causing global warming, climate change and many other bitter reactions that accelerates the crumbling of the earth. The central theme of Buddhism, universal goal of development and ultimate dream of happiness is not about accumulating or consuming material wealth rather is about the meaningful association with the natural world (although, different people may have their own definition for happiness). Thus to save the mother earth from complete destruction and before it reaches the point of no return, Bhutan introduced its concept of Gross National Ha...

More than 900 million people and 2 billion people in the world lack access to an improved water supply and improved sanitation facilities respectively (1) .Though 94%(2011) of the Bhutanese had access to safe drinking water and access to safe excreta disposal increased from 91% 2011 to 96.1% in 2012 . (2) However, 3046 per 10,000 (30.46%) patients who visited Kabesa BHU in 2012 were related to poor hygiene and sanitation. The report ascribes the general assessment of hygiene and sanitation level in Kabesa locality. The findings includes the present programs and strategies to achieve goals, disease prevalence related to poor hygiene and sanitation, conditions of rural households, access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities and   also the gaps and opportunities.   Recommendations are drawn for further improvement of hygiene and sanitation in kabesa vicinity.   Situation analysis One sixth of the world's population and approximately 1.1 billion pe...