WHAT CAN INDIA LEARN FROM BHUTAN?

“I believe that we have a lot to learn from Bhutan," the Ex P.M. of India, Mr. Manmohan
Singh said while welcoming Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley, who delivered the fourth Prof.
Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture on "Gross National Happiness: A Holistic
Paradigm for Sustainable Development" on December – 21st , 2011, in New Delhi. The lecture was
peppered with Bhutan's success story on measuring the happiness of its people. "Fifty two per cent of
Bhutan citizens are happy while 45 per cent are very happy. Only 3 per cent are not very happy," he
said. The tiny nation has a big lesson to teach a development hungry nation. Mighty India should learn
anything from little Bhutan?