Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Mar 12: Chairman /Chief Executive Councillor LAHDC Gyal P Wangyal visited Skyu-Markha valley.
CEC was accompanied by Executive Councillor for Agriculture Phuntosg Stanzin, Councillor Skyu-Markha Sonam Norboo, District and Sub Divisional Level Officers and engineers headed by District Superintending Engineer PWD, Leh Pardip Sharma and ACD, Leh Tsering Paldan.
Responding to some common and major demands of the Skyu-Markha valley including installation of mobile towers, extension and blacktopping of Skyu-Markha road up to Hankar and connecting the valley with power line, CEC Wangyal said that the construction of Skyu-Markha road started with Rs 4 crore fund and for the year 2019-20 Rs 35 lakh was allocated and for survey of road from Markha to Hankar, Rs 9 lakh was kept out of which Rs 4 lakh was expended.
He said that Council is giving top priority to connect far-off and remote villages of Leh and assured that a good expendable amount of funds will be allocated for the same road in upcoming 2020-21 Capex budget and reiterated that after becoming UT there will be no dearth of funds in Ladakh.
He said that to de-notify villages from Wildlife Centuries in Ladakh, a committee of UT Administration is already constituted so that villages which are facing problems due to wildlife acts and rule could be solved and developmental activities could be carried out.
Regarding installation of mobile towers in the valley, Wangyal said that under USO funding 24 Mobile Towers are sanctioned in Leh out of which two mobile towers are in Skyu-Markha valley and installation works will resume soon.
To connect Skyu-Marka valley with main power line, CEC said that under DDUGJY, electric poles and lines are partially lied in the valley and directed engineers of PGCIL, TATA to connect main line between Chilling and Tsachu-thang bridge which was held due to landslide prone areas along the road and hoped that entire valley will be connected with main power line this year only.
Giving patient hearing to all the major and minor, CEC directed the concerned HODs to do needful at the earliest.
Councillor Skyu-Markha Sonam Norboo highlighted issues and demands at all the visited villages and hoped that all pending and genuine demands of his constituency will be addressed in upcoming financial year.
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