VALUES
The Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs upholds the following core values:
- Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Dedication, Fairness and Professionalism
- Transparency, Accountability, Efficiency
- Exemplary leadership
- Meritocracy
- Teamwork
- People friendly
MANDATES
The Ministry has to accomplish the following mandates to materialize its Vision and Mission statements:
- The provision of professional guidance on matters relating to policy, training human resources and infrastructural development in the area of culture, local governance, disaster management, immigration and civil registration services;
- Develop, review and revise policies, pertaining to cultural preservation, immigration services, civil registration and census services, law and order, local governance and disaster management;
- Reducing crime and maintain law and order;
- Formulate, review, revise, Laws/Acts pertaining to the Ministry;
- Promote awareness on culture, disaster and decentralization amongst all levels of Bhutanese society, including dissemination of policies, strategies, acts, rules, regulations and standards through prints, audio visual and other means;
- Mainstream culture into the country’s development policies, plan and programmee;
- Promote and conduct research based on requirement;
- Ensure efficient administration of all the Dzongkhags;
- Coordinate and facilitate the implementation of the decentralization process through development of capacity of the local functionaries;
- Coordinate and monitor cross-sectoral issues related to immigration, local governance, culture, disaster management, law and order in the country;
- Ensure satisfactory customer services in the public service oriented departments;
- Implement the National Assembly resolutions pertaining to the Ministry;
- Ensure accurate registration of all the citizens and manage national population data;
- Control and manage immigration.