April 21: The old Wangdue town wears a cramped and dusty look under the midday sun. It will soon be abandoned and shopkeepers will move to the new Bajothang town.
The plan to move to the new town was made as far back as 2002. It was held back by the controversy surrounding the land allocation in the new town of Bajothang. The land allocation has now been resolved and preparations are underway to shift to the new town.
Dzongda Kinzang Wangdi said they took a long time drawing up the plan so that the town will be structurally sound.
"We have been advised by the government that township should be a model township because I think there has been a lot of hard tales over the township in Khuruthang and else where, where everything has come up in a bland way. So we have been advised and accordingly we have been requested by the Ministry of Works and Human Settlements to give us some designs from which the people can choose the type of houses that should be build and we have been promised that in another two months time, they would be able to provide four or five different facades of the types of houses that the people could go for," said the Dzongda.
Dzongda Kinzang Wangdi said the construction will begin once the design of the town is finalized by the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement.
He said it will take another two months to get the designs. Following that he said people will have to go for structural designs and have their buildings and structural designs in place before giving the permission to go ahead with the construction works.
"I would hope that by the end of this year people will be able start the constructions in the township here," said Dzongda Kinzang Dorji.
There are 138 plots in the new township. Of that 131 have been allotted to business people from the old Wangdue town.
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