BSA basically is meant to enhance the interaction of
Bhutanese students abroad. Acting like
ambassador of Bhutan, it also carries out the functions like HM’s birthday and
National day celebration. The association has helped and done well enough in
promoting the unity and Bhutanese spirit abroad. On another hand the students
abroad has been facing several orientation difficulties with the claiming of
funds, process and utility of funds.
Registering to BSA has been one difficulty for individuals who are mostly
in far away colleges from the main BSA. BSA executives submit the proposal for
the fund for forthcoming events and the claiming of funds has been always
exhaustive procedure. Even if the funds
being released, there is still the question of how funds are being used. Some members of the bigger BSA’s like Kolkata
BSA and Bangalore BSA, says there should be member who also duly check the
utility of funds by executives because treasurer has been simply an incorporated
bone in the muscle of the body. Bigger BSA owing to its more number of members
receives proportionately more budget than other smaller BSA’s. BSAs with low
number of members have been how ever quite easy in running well due to the
close regulation of budget owing to its small size. Unlike smaller BSA, bigger
BSA lacks the accessibility of each member to how the funds are being utilized.
Members say that they are uninformed about how the funds are being used and
transparency is being subdued. Are
executives trusted by Adult and Higher Education Department who monitors the
BSA? Members, they say they rarely gets call from the Department for the
inquiry of how BSA being run or budget being used. Does the department strictly
comply with BSA guidelines? In some BSA, the same executives run BSA for several
years which defy the BSA guideline. If
the proposal of fund is made online-that would be a moon in the night. It would
save the exhaustive procedure of posting a proposal, submitting a receipt etc. Some colleges have no BSA which can’t make it
to number ten members although few of them exist as Bhutanese student abroad.
Many students are unregistered as BSA members due to
1) Less than ten members. 2) Far away from the main BSA. 3) Forming new BSA
is hectic process.
Executives of the BSA say that, since the claimed budget is
according to estimated cost, sometimes it happens that budget shortfalls for
the listed menu for the celebration and they have to expend it from their own
pocket. The reimbursement how ever is
the process longer than litigating a case in court, they say. Students who are
popular enough only reap the association benefits, some says. For some
students, they say without BSA might serve a greater unity. BSA as an official
association draws attention to sensitivity of budget being used. For some, BSA has not done anything
remarkable. How the department
monitoring BSA around the world, has proven effectively well in rendering
service is vague seeing many unregistered students and even members of BSA not
yielding benefits from it. The claim of funds should be easy and accessible.
There is a need of one member to check the utility of the fund obeying the
guideline. BSA is after all to make Bhutan in a foreign land for the Bhutanese
students.
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