By IANS,
Thimphu : A town in Bhutan has not grown an inch in the past three decades and residents now want that it should be shifted to a new location. You can still go from end to end in three minutes.
Little has changed in the town of Lhamoizingkha, which has temporary wooden houses with a single lane that is flanked by mini shops.
It takes barely three minutes to reach the end of the town, reported Kuensel daily Monday.
Pirthi Badhur, who has been running a shop for more than 30 years said, there is electricity and road, but the town hasn’t expanded a inch.
“We have heard that the town will be shifted for the last 10 years,” he was quoted as saying.
Another shopkeeper Chandra Mukhia, 45, said with customers increasing it has become necessary for the town to extend to move to a new location.
“But there is no area to extend in the existing town,” she rued. “We don’t know if the town will ever change.”
Kamal Chettri, another resident, said that the “the town will develop only if it’s shifted”.