Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Oct 14: CEC, LAHDC, Rigzin Spalbar in a letter to Defence Minister took up the issue of ongoing recruitment process for labourers going on at 118 OMC, Nimoo.
CEC has put a course his reservations with regard to the exclusion of the local population for the recruitment and the alleged nepotism going on in the recruitment process. He has urged upon the Minister to consider exclusively local population for such recruitment as it is the locals who would be best in rendering services at any level in the harsh climatic conditions of Ladakh.
Expressing his view that local population being the real vanguards of the border in places like Ladakh which is flanked by two adversaries, the employment opportunities is the right of the local population and has requested the Defense Minister to intervene, so that locals could get benefit from such kind of employment openings.
Meanwhile, Mr Spalbar had an introductory meeting with the representatives of the German Development Bank (KfW), at his office chamber today, to identify potential projects in Ladakh for their financial support.
Under Project Identification Mission their key focus areas include climate change adaptation, conservation and agriculture, horticulture, natural resources management, bio-diversity conservation, water resources development among others.
CEC welcoming their proposal detailed about various important sectors and stressed mainly on the development of land based economy like agriculture, horticulture, sea-buck thorn etc. that have the potential for sustainable economic development in Ladakh. He also made them understand about the importance of value addition, mechanization and organic farming.
Talking about other aspects, CEC also made a detailed description about other important factors like Pashmina and water based business prospects and assured them of full cooperation from the Council.
KfW works to explore financial partnerships with new States of India including Jammu & Kashmir and special focus is to be provided on Ladakh region, given its unique geomorphological and ecological characteristics.
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