The city will promote walking and cycling to reduce emissions, green spaces for meditation and relaxation, mindfulness-based education, public community activities, healthcare and wellness centres, and eco-tourism, they said.
The 'Gelephu Mindfulness City' (GMC) will lie in a special administrative region with separate rules and laws that will aim to be an economic corridor linking South Asia to Southeast Asia, officials said.
A country of less than 800,000 people that is wedged between Asian giants India and China, Bhutan has been struggling to boost its $3 billion economy that is heavily reliant on aid, hydropower and tourism, and was badly hit by COVID-19 restrictions.
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