Itanagar: Gross National Happiness(GNH), happiness interwoven with balanced economic development was a concept introduced by Bhutan’s King in 1972 as an alternative to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Bhutan’s National Assembly member Dupthob said on Thursday.
Dupthob said this during the team’s interaction with state Legislative Assembly Speaker Wanglin Lowangdong, Deputy Speaker Jomde Kena and officials in assembly here.
Dupthob, NA’s Poverty Reduction Committee chairperson, is heading a five-member team that arrived here on Thursday on a maiden four-day state visit.
The 33-year-old first time parliamentarian said GNH is one of the million development goals(MDGs) of Asia’s happiest nation that graduated to parliamentary democracy in 2008 at the insistence of 4th King Jigme Singye Wangchuck. (UNI)
