Jigmi Thinley

·         On July 15, 2008 Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss called on the visiting PM of Bhutan Mr. Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley, (Bhutan seeks cooperation for setting up a medical college in collaboration with AIIMS)

·         The Prime Minister of Bhutan raised the issue of setting up of medical college in the context of ongoing cooperation between the two countries in the health sector. India is setting up two hospitals in Bhutan.

·         Bhutan’s first democratically elected Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley in on a four-day visit to India, his first trip abroad after assuming power in April, to strengthen economic cooperation between the age-old allies, especially in the power sector.

Mission IAS’2009

·         AIIMS was inaugurated in 1956, and was built with a grant from the New Zealand Government.

·         AIIMS was established in New Delhi after former Indian PM Nehru's intitial proposal to set up the institute in Calcutta was turned down by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.

·         It was the vision of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first Health Minister of India, to establish an institute of such nature in India.

·         Bhutan is located in Southern Asia, between China and India Southern Asia, between China and India

·         Its lowest point: Drangme Chhu 97 m and highest point: Kula Kangri 7,553 m

·         In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding some border land to British India.

·         Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907; three years later, a treaty was signed whereby the British agreed not to interfere in Bhutanese internal affairs and Bhutan allowed Britain to direct its foreign affairs.

·         This role was assumed by independent India after 1947.

·         Its total area is  47,000 sq km

§         In India we have

§         19 Rank for     Punjab             50,362

§         20 Rank for     Haryana           44,212