Council passes resolution for 33% reservation to women
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 15: Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh Brig (Retd) Dr B D Mishra today called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed with him a series of issues pertaining to the Union Territory.
While there was no official statement as to what transpired at the meeting, a high-level committee had recently submitted report mentioning boundaries, number of posts and other requisite formalities for creation of five districts in Ladakh, which were announced by Shah in August last year.
The UT administration has set up an administrative panel to study the report and submit recommendations to the Union Home Ministry before creation of five new districts.
The Home Ministry will issue formal notification for creation of five new districts notifying their headquarters, boundaries and other issues like creation of new posts.
New administrative units will take number of districts in Ladakh from two to seven. Presently, Leh and Kargil are the only two districts in the UT.
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Sham, Nubra and Changthang will take number of new districts in Leh to four while Zanskar and Drass will take number of new districts in Kargil to three.
Meanwhile, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh today passed a resolution recommending 33 percent reservation for women in the Council.
The history resolution was passed by the Council headed by senior BJP leader Tashi Gyalson, Chairman-cum-CEC.
The resolution was passed with majority.
The CEC strongly hailed the passing of historic resolution by the Council under his chairmanship and stressed that 33 percent reservations to women should be implemented from next elections which are due in October this year.
There are 26 Councilors in the Hill Council who are elected while four Councilors are nominated by the UT administration of Ladakh taking total numbers in the Council to 30. Besides the Chairman-cum-CEC, there are four Executive Councilors.
Since the election is held for 26 seats, seven seats can be reserved for the women.
However, with five new districts coming up in Ladakh, the boundaries will change and a decision will be taken by the Union Home Ministry about structure of the Hill Councils.
Observers are of the view that due to very less population and number of electorates, it may not be possible for the Home Ministry to give seven Hill Councils to Ladakh. They said a mechanism will have to be formulated by the Home Ministry within the next few months as five-year term of Leh Hill Council will end in October.
The dialogue between the Union Home Ministry and Ladakh leaders including Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) has also been stalled with last meeting held on January 15.
Sources said certain issues are being sorted out through backchannel talks before the next meeting is convened in New Delhi.
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