This is to notify and inform the general public that the SHORT-TERM WORK PERMIT (E-Work Permit) is now being initiated by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment. The employers wishing to import foreign workers even for the duration less than 30 days should now compulsorily apply online through BLMIS with immediate effect. Besides the normal required documents, the individual/FWRA/employers should submit the medical clearance certificate of the foreigners obtained from the country of origin.This notification is referred to the approval of the night halt work permits only and for other categories and updates, MoICE will keep notifying in future.

Minutes of Pre-Proposal Conference for CCDT for Financial Year 2022-23

Date: 15 August 2022

Time: 09:20 AM

Venue: Ministry’s Conference Hall

 Representatives from MoLHR

  1. Rattu, Offtg. Chief Program Officer, TDD
  2. Ugyen Namgyel, APO, TDD
  3. Tandin Gyeltshen, APO, TDD
  4. Lekey Dorji, APO

Representatives from Private Training Institutes

  1. Karma Sangay Dorji, NLD Institute
  2. Sonam Pelmo, NLD Institute
  3. Pema Namgay, VTOB
  4. Jigme Yeshi, VTOB

As per the requirement of Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) System, Training and Development Division (TDD), Department of National HR Development (DNHRD) conducted pre-proposal conference with private training institutes on Critical Capability Development (CCD) training on 11 packages. Although invitation for proposal and pre-proposal meeting was advertised on 8 August 2022, there were only two training institutes present during the conference.

The members from the training institutes were presented on the Terms of Reference (ToR) by Rattu, Offtg. Chief Program Officer. During the course of the presentation on the ToR, the Institutes were briefed thoroughly on every clauses and requirements of the ToR. The members were also briefed on Fin 3 and 4 are one part. The evaluation of the proposals will be done based on 80% technical aspect and 20% financial aspect. During submission of proposal and training, there should be 3 key personnel. Assistant trainer can be assigned the role of program coordinator, but lead trainer cannot be program coordinator. If in case one person is assigned as an assistant trainer and also the program coordinator of the training, different CVs must be submitted. The proposal must be submitted before 7 September 2022 before 11:00 AM.

 Following the presentation and discussion on the TOR, query raised by the institutes was discussed and recorded as follows:

SNQuery DiscussionDecision
1Low budgetThere was an inquiry about low per head cost the training.

The TDD clarified that per head cost for this year is higher than previous years considering the overall market inflation. Further, for this FY the training areas are not material intensive course not requiring huge amount of budget expenditure.

The budget was already approved by the Ministry Management and there won’t be any changes

The pre-proposal conference concluded at 10:40 AM

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