Kurtoed

Rolling from Lhuentse towards the extreme corner to the North, after 45km drive on unpaved road is Dungkar, a village of pure Kurtoep. It is well known in its history significance throughout the nation.

Brief Background of the Gewog:

The history discloses that the name of the place was originated from the physical shape of the land. The place bears the exact shape of a conch shell. The land form of the village can be seen from the place called Tabandchen.

Kurtoed Gewog is one of the developing Gewog among the eight Gewogs under Lhuentse Dzongkhag. Gewog Office is located at Dungkar which is about three hours drive from the Dzongkhag Headquarters (altitude 2023 m above sea level). Gewog has a total area of approximately 1076 square kilometer with sparsely distributed population in the five Chiwogs of Dungkar, Tabi, Jasabi-Ugyenphu, Tang-Roong-Wawel and Chagdzom-Chhusa. By size, it is the biggest but the least populated Gewog in the Dzongkhag housing 235 households with total population of 2212 as per census record.

Ancestral home town of our beloved monarchs, the Gewog takes pride in having two standing historical structures called Dungkar Choeje Lhakhang and Nagtsang Lhakhang where Jigme Namgyel was born. Besides historical sites of Dungkar Choeje Lhakhang and Nagtsang, the Gewog is also blessed with numerous religiously sacred places and Lhakhangs. The most prominent of all are Rinchen Bumpa, Kuenzangling, and Ugyenphu which are associated with the visit of Guru Rinpoche and Longchen Rabjam.

The Gewog is connected with a 45 km of GC road. All the five Chiwogs are connected with farm road.

Other infrastructures and facilities include Dungkar Primary School, Chagdzom ECR, one RNR centre, one Community Center/Gewog Banking, one Farm Shop, one BHU and three outreach clinics at distant villages of Jasabi, Chakzam, and Thuenpey respectively.

Gewog also falls under the Wangchuck Centennial National Park having Park’s Eastern Office located at Dungkar.

Wet land and dry land cultivation dominate agriculture land use with minimal orchard development.The Gewog has a fertile soil for growing both food and cash crops. As such it is expected that there will be booming of agriculture produces in near future as all five Chiwog are connected with farm road. But the Gewog’s development potentials is limited by lack of access market and crop damage by wild animals, farm labor shortage and post harvest losses.

Current Situation

The Gewog has social infrastructure such as RNR center, one farm Shop, one Community Pry School, one Extended Classroom, one BHU, three Out Reach Clinics (ORC), thirteen lhakhangs (including Nagtshang) and one Community Centre/Gewog Banking. Gewog Centre and Chiwogs are connected by motor able road. Basic Services such as Electricity, Mobile services and clean drinking water are covered to all the Chiwogs.

Opportunities and Strength

Lhuentse Dzongkhag is well known for its richness in sacred site as Dzong (Lhuendrup Rinchen Tsei Dzong) itself is one of the sacred Dzong in the history of Bhutan. Likewise Kurtoed Gewog is also known for housing many sacred places and sites including birth place of our beloved monarchs. As blessed by Guru Rinpoche and Longchen Ramjam, Gewog has fertile soil and suitable climatic condition to grow almost all nine types of crops ( Dru Na Gu).

The diverse agro-ecological condition in the Gewog provides potentials for growing cash crops such as tree tomato, potatoes, brinjal, ginger and cereal crops such as red Rice, mustard, millet, buckwheat and maize.

Most importantly, the Gewog has high potentiality for establishing Cultural Based Tourism and Eco-Tourism.

Challenges and Weaknesses

One of the biggest challenges for the Gewog is not having market to sell farm produce.

The majority of the people depend on agriculture and rearing of livestock but farm labour shortages and damage of crops by wild animals is a serious threat which have discourage people from cultivating on larger scale. The rural-urban migration is the main cause of farm labor shortages in the Gewog as educated youth move out of farmstead to bigger town in search of employment. These also result in increased of Gungtongs.

Local Government Officials:

Sl. No Designation Name Contact No.
1 Gup Karpola 17347823
2 Mangmi Ugyen Pelden 17523060
3 Tshogpa (Chagdzom-Chhusa) Karma Jamtsho 17872753
4 Tshogpa (Tangroong-Wawale) Jurmey 17489103
5 Tshogpa (Dungkar) Tenzin Norbu 17949931
6 Tshogpa (Dungkar) Sangay Tshering 17596059
7 Tshogpa (Jasabi-Ugyenphu) Sonam Dorji 17808431

Population details:

Name of Chiwog No. of Households Population of Chiwog No. of Gungtong (Empty Households)
Chagdzom-Chhusa 42 501 10
Dungkar 71 647 28
Jasabi-Ugyenphu 23 247 10
Tabi 33 300 16
Tangroong-Wawel 57 517 22
Total 226 2212 86

Civil Servant:

Sl. No Name Designation Contact No.
1 Tashi Tshering Gewog ADM Officer 17755591
2 Tenzin Wangdi Principal (Dungkar PS) 17130454
3 Yeshi Tshewang Principal In-Charge (Chagdzom ECR) 16446116
4 Ugyen Wangchuk Agriculture Extension Officer 17709129
5 Ugyen Dorji Livestock Extension Officer 16924062
6 Dorji Wangchuk Ranger (WCNP) 17320647
7 Dorji Wangchuk Health Assistant 17479289
8 Karma Dema Community Centre Operator 17682181

Education:

Sl. No.

Name of School

No. of Teachers

No. of Students

Male

Female

Boys

Girls

1

Dungkar PS 7 2 42 49

2

Chagdzom ECR 2 9 14
Total No. ECCD: 2 Dungkar No. of Learners Male Female
9 8
Chagdzom No. of Learners 5 5

Health:

Sl. No. Details Place
1 Basic Health Unit Dungkar
2 3 Out Reach Clinic Jasabi, Thuenpey & Chagdzom

Road Connection:

Road Name Road Type
(Farm road/Gewog Center road/Feeder road etc.)
Road Length (KM) Year of Construction
Lhuentse-Rabung – GC GC road (blacktopped) 47
Tabi-Jasabi Farm road 7 2013
Rabung-Chhusa Farm road 21.2 2013
Wamdrang-Naling Zam Farm road 1 2013
Approach Road to Kunzangling Approach road 1.5 2013-2014
Thuenpey-Sershong Farm road 5 2016-2017
Tokarshong-Wawel-Signar Farm road 2.3 2016-2017
Barab-Naling Farm road 4.5 2020-2021
Dungkar Yungma-Tshongsa Farm road 2.5 2021-2022

Local Festivals & Tshechus:

Tshechus & Local Festivals Location Lunar Calendar date of Tshechu/Festival
Dungkar Cham/Tshechu Dungkar Choejee lhakhang 8th to 11th day of 11th month every year.
Prew All five Chiwogs (Grand Celebration in Jasabi-Ugyenphu Chiwog) 10th to 12th day of the 4th month every year
Chha Chhusa & Zimpong 2nd to 4th day of the 8th month alternative year

Important Pilgrimage sites (Ney/Hot spring)

Important Pilgrimage sites (Ney/Hot spring) Location
Ney Rinchen Bumpa Chagdzom-Chhusa Chiwog
Nya Goenpa Jasabi-Ugyenphu Chiwog
Khamphu Ney Jasabi-Ugyenphu Chiwog
Khenpa Lung Tshachhu Jasabi-Ugyenphu Chiwog

Trade & Industry Information:

Business Type (Shops/Bars/Hotels/factory, etc) Registered Name Location Large/Medium/Micro/Others
Shop cum bar Tashi Pelden Dungkar Micro
Shop cum bar TashiLa Dungkar Micro
Shop cum bar Yeshi Choki Dungkar Micro
Shop Sonam Pemo Tabi Micro
Shop cum bar Ugyen Rinzin Thuenpey Micro
Shop Tshering Wangdi Drabling Micro

RNRC : 1 Centre, Agriculture and Livestock Extension

Sl. No. Agriculture Livestock Other
1 Two Vegetables groups & one Rice Packaging Unit No Dairy Group 2 community forest groups

Goshey Nyenshey in Gewog:

Sl. No. Name Village Contact No.
1 Phuntsho Tshewang Jasabi 17808308
2 Rinchen Phuntsho Tabi 17951866
3 Ugyen Tshering (ex-Gup) Dungkar 17788913
4 Ugyen Rinzin Thuenpey 17518896
5 Tshering Dorji Chagdzom 17360202
6 KenchoLa Sewel 17808072
7 Karma Tshering Thangbi 17754977

List of Ex-Armed Forces in Gewog:

Sl. No. Name CID No Organization/Post Village Remarks
1 Rinchen 10604001738 RBA/Chuma Thangbi
2 Kunzang Tshering 10604000059 RBA/Peljab Chagdzom
3 Pema Wangdi 10604002139 RBA/Drimpon Wamdrang
4 Tshewang Norbu 10604001073 RBA/Drimpon Dungkar
5 Tenzin Dorji 10604000769 RBA/chuma Zimpong
6 TsheringLa 10604000733 RBA/Gopa Lamselkekpa
7 Chimi Wangdi 10604000532 RBA/Chuma Jasabi
8 Damchoe 10601003489 RBA/Drimpon Chhusa From Gangzur
9 Sonam Rinchen 10604001796 RBA/Peljab Thowa
10 Cheten Tshering 11608002419 RBA/Chuma Gurta From T/Yangtse
11 Tshewang Norbu 10604001073 RBA/Drimpon Sewel
12 Sonam Phuntsho 10604000765 RBA/Dedrim Lhasambi
13 Tshering Wangdi 12007002384 RBA/Dedrim Wamdrang
14 Sherab Dorji 10604000780 RBA/Chuma Menbi
15 Rinzin 10604002221 RBG/Chuma Lhasambi

Gup

Karpola

Email

17347823

Mangmi

Ugyen Palden

Email

17523060

Extension Supervior -I

Ugyen Dorji

dorjiu@lhuenste.gov.bt

16924062

Tshogpa

Sonam Dorji

Email

17808431

Tshogpa

Jurmey

Email

17489103

Tshogpa

Karma Jamtsho

Email

17872753

Tshogpa

Tenzin Norbu

Email

17949931

Agriculture Extension supervisor II

Thinley Wangmo

wthinley995@gmail.com

77479356

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