Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Jan 5: In view of Government’s indication to announce Divisional Status for Ladakh in the coming days, former Congress Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora has submitted important recommendations to the State Government to harmonize, integrate and to ensure compatibility between the divisional status without undermining the autonomous functioning of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDCs) of Leh and Kargil.
Jora met Chief Secretary B.V.R Subrahmanyam, Advisor to the Governor K.V Kumar and the Governor Satya Pal Malik himself and submitted recommendations based on his ten years of experience in the LAHDC as well as 12 years in the State Cabinet.
In recommendation letter to the Government, Jora wrote that giving divisional status by mere posting of a Divisional Commissioner and Inspector General of Police would be meaningless if it is not accompanied by creation of posts of Directors of all the important Departments.
He wrote that directorates created must function under the overall control and superintendence of the two LAHDCs of Leh and Kargil and should be accountable to them which can be done by posting Chief Executive Officers of the two LAHDC of relative seniority to the Directors-perhaps Commissioner/Secretary level officer or of higher grade. As Commissioner/Secretary level officer may not like to carry out the duty of Deputy Commissioner, the existing practice of CEO/DC must be de-linked, bifurcated with Deputy Commissioner dealing exclusively with law and order.
He recommended this aiming at integrating the Divisional status with the autonomous functioning of the two LAHDCs and ensuring harmonious and smooth functioning of these two institutions.
Jora said that sole objective is that when we get a Divisional status that is fully compatible with two LAHDCs which is accountable to them and working in complete synergic and harmony and the intent was to help the Governor and the Chief Secretary crystallizes their ideas and concepts in a system which is unlike Jammu and Kashmir Division’s where there are Hill Councils.
Jora claimed that he had the competence to provide the inputs as he was also involved in the drafting of the LAHDC Act.
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