Councils get Rs 1 cr each
Crisis blows over in Ladakh
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 5: The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh and Union Territory Administration today reached an agreement on evacuation of stranded people from different States of the country after which the Council representatives called off their strike.
The truce came as LAHDC Leh Chairman-cum-CEC Gyal Wangyal and Health Secretary Ladakh Rigzin Samphel addressed a joint press conference this morning in Leh.
Wangyal later told the Excelsior that Rs one crore each have been kept at the disposal of the Hill Councils of Leh and Kargil by the UT administration.
“The funds on return of stranded persons of Ladakh will be spent by the Councils and evacuation process will take place in coordination between the Councils and the UT administration,” Wangyal said, adding the Council representatives are satisfied with the UT administration.
Now, the assurance given by the UT administration must be kept, Wangyal said.
At the press conference, the CEC said they wanted roadmap for bringing back the stranded people of Ladakh who are not in a position to come back in the absence of funds. The administration has now given Rs 1 crore each to the two Councils and has agreed to give more, if required, he added.
Samphel said the funds were kept at disposal of the Hill Councils on the directions of Lieutenant Governor Radha Krishna Mathur.
Replying to a question, Samphel said 10,000 stranded persons of Ladakh have so far registered themselves at Connect Ladakh App for returning to their home towns in the Union Territory. He appealed to the stranded people to register themselves at the App which will help the UT administration and the Council to bring them back
“The persons returning from Red Zone will have to go for institutional quarantine while those coming from non-Red Zone will be subjected to home quarantine,” Samphel said, adding this was necessary for the safety of local people also.
Samphel said movement of Ladakh people will be regulated.
He added that reports of 205 samples were received from NCDC Delhi yesterday and all of them were negative.
Meanwhile, another prominent BJP leader Tsering Gyalpo today resigned from the party in support of BJP UT chief for Ladakh Chering Dorjay.
Dorjay had quit the party a day before alleging that the Hill Councils were being ignored by the UT administration and the BJP high command wasn’t taking the issues raised by them seriously.
Gyalpo, a retired SSP, has sent his resignation letter to BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda.
“I’m pained to see the plight of Ladakh people in different parts of India and abroad on the social media due to prevailing situation for which little has been done by the UT administration. I don’t see any reason to be part of the ruling party if real problems of the people are not addressed despite repeated requests by no less a person that the president of BJP, UT Ladakh and the Chairmen-cum-CECs of LAHDC Leh and Kargil,” Gyalpo said in the resignation letter.
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