Mendrelgang

Brief Background of the Gewog:

Mendrelgang is one of the fast developing Gewog in Tsirang Dzongkhag. It has an area of an approximately 15.5 square km and it is situated 14 km away to the south east of the Dzongkhag Headquarter, Damphu. It has an elevation ranging from 700 meters-1400 meters above the sea-level. The climate is moderate and has sandy loamy black soil which is favorable for cultivation of different varieties of food crops and vegetable as well as all kinds of fruits. The Gewog has 5 chiwogs and the total population is around 2995 with 384 households.

Economically, the people of the Mendrelgang Gewog are doing well and their livelihood mostly depends on agriculture and livestock farming. They also grow oranges, cardamom and various fruits as their main cash crop. Besides the cash crops, they also grow vegetables and make a living by selling them in other Dzongkhag.

Infra-structurally, Gewog has one central school, Gewog office, RNR Centre, BHU, 1 ORC, 2 Non Formal Education Centre and one Buddhist and one Hindu Lhakhang established at different places. The people take advantage of these facilities by availing the required services from them. The Gewog also has one community centre which provides both online and offline facilities to the people.

With regard to transport and communication, Gewog local taxis. For the purpose of easy transporting the farm products produced by the farmers, Gewog has constructed 11Numbers of farm roads measuring about37.03 KMs. Gewog is also connected with B.Mobile services in the year 2008 and with Tashi Cell services in 2010. All the chiwogs in Mendrelgang Gewog has been electrified and people enjoy happily with power services.

The main source of income of the people in the Gewog is from selling oranges and cardamoms during the season.  Most of the villagers in the Gewog are engaged in raising poultry and the piggery farms to earn their daily income. The Gewog is connected with both the mobile network available in the country but however, it is not reachable to few households which are located at the lower altitude level/ places like lower Zomlingzor and Pemashong chiwogs.

The Gewog is connected with a cable services (TV). Mendrelgang Gewog was electrified in the year 2010, so today almost all the houses receives the services provided by Bhutan Power Corporation. No house is left without electricity or power.

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