Chali Gewog ( Dzongkha: ཆ་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of

Mongar District Mongar District (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional ...

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...

. In 2002, the gewog contained 263 households and covered an area of 42 square kilometres.

Economy

The principal agricultural products are maize, paddy, barley, buckwheat, oranges and vegetables. More than 60% of the population have access to piped drinking water supply and 30% of the households have electricity. The gewog has a community school with 258 students but relies on

Mongar Mongar (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར) is a town and the seat of Mongar District in eastern Bhutan. it had a population of 3502. Mongar is on the road from Thimphu to Trashigang. It is one of the oldest educational hubs of the country. It ha ...

for most of the facilities. The farmers of Tashipong are dependent upon spring water. Agricultural production has increased by 8% in Chhali Gewog in 2011. The villagers mainly engage in subsistence farming but vegetable and animal products (such as cheese, butter and eggs) are sold at the market.

Politics

Administratively, Chhali Gewog is a part of the dzongkhag of

. In November 2007, the people of Chhali elected former General Secretary of the Bhutan Olympic Committee Pema Tenzin as their National Council candidate.

References

Gewogs of Bhutan Mongar District {{Bhutan-geo-stub