Decent Salary – Homeless

Dedicated civil servants drawing their monthly salary cannot build their own house when he superannuates from their job. A time will come for everyone to leave the place we live now and call it home. A moment will knock sooner than our realization that we should leave with nothing in hand. The experience or the certificates that you have earned during those long years of service will not help at that moment. Nor the reputations shall aid you to proceed further.

A salary that hardly meets the monthly expenditure can’t afford to save to construct a house. Many decent civil servants superannuate after certain age OR after serving for certain years and ultimately return back to their own village which was once abandoned. For all his life, a setup office with a laptop/pen/paper was the only tool handled and out of the blue moon, he was introduced to the farming life. This situation is alarming to me personally and it is happening to many civil servants. You invest all your energy in the growth of the company and when your service is no longer needed OR when you are not that energetic to handle the pressure, you are kicked out without any regard.

In the present scenario, the savings one makes in one's lifetime, we can’t afford to own a decent plot of land (13 decimal) in any heart town area. The prices of land are skyrocketing and the whole life savings of one can’t afford to own a plot.

For those who own buildings/houses, you will notice that majority belongs to a businessman. Seldom are the possibilities that they are owned through inheritance.

Bhutanese have little or no sense of savings, unlike other countries. We were brought up that way and we have that installed in our mindset. The time has reached for every Bhutanese to have a sense of saving and for the government to hike the perks of civil servants for them to manage the afterlife of civil servants.

I feel that all deserve to own a small house after they depart from the company or government service to settle down and spend the rest of their life comfortably. Relying on the salary alone will drive through the tough time resulting homeless until there is some mechanism to increase the perks along with the market inflation.

May the cry of all be heard by the highest bureaucrats and do change the system to have it occupied.