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Gyalsung
Gyalsung — National Service
Gyalsung is Bhutan’s national service programme, announced by Royal Kasho in 2019 and operationalised through the Gyalsung Act of 2022. It requires one year of service from all Bhutanese citizens at age eighteen, combining military training, civic education, vocational skills, and national-identity formation.
The first Jamtsholing Academy cohort completed in 2024. Programme expansion through the late 2020s will deliver the full cohort-by-cohort effect anticipated by the Royal articulation.
See also: Chapter Ten, Paradox #41.