A meeting was convened by Advisor Umang Narula to address various grievances of Trans Sengee-La region on March 7. The issues include power, electricity, road connectivity, telecom facilities and heli services and others. 

The meeting was attended by Saugat Biswas, Divisional Commissioner Ladakh, M.K Jain, Commandant 16 BRTF, Phuntsog Dorjey, General Manager BSNL, and other senior officers from army and civil administration. 
Nambardar Yulchung Nyraks apprised the Advisor of the various grievances of Trans Singee-Lalok and thanked him for convening the meeting to address the grievances of the most remote region of Ladakh.  

Commandant 16 BRTF apprised the Advisor of the status of Nimoo –Padum- Darcha (NPD) road and stated that the road will be made functional this year. He also informed the Advisor of the status of Wanla -Sumdho -Yulchung road and stated that the stretch of 80 km of this road is currently unsurfaced. Advisor asked BRO to submit a proposal for up-gradation, improvement and snow clearance works of this road. 

During the review of electricity facilities, it was informed that all the villages of Singe Lalok except for two villages are being connected with the grid under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). It was also informed that the 11 KVA transmission line till Sirsir-la will be charged by end of June this year. The Advisor instructed for the early formulation of project to undertake the leftover works for connecting the remaining villages.
Saugat Biswas, Divisional Commissioner Ladakh informed that village Lingshed is connected through VSAT and people are availing internet connectivity and video call facilities from the village. He stated that the possibility of shifting some unutilized VSATs to the network shadow villages of Trans-Sengee-La will be explored to; provide an immediate short term solution.

Advisor asked the General Manager BSNL to inform the Administration, regarding proposals submitted to Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for providing of telecom facilities to the uncovered villages of Trans-Sengee-La.

Nambardar Yulchung Nyraks thanked the UT administration for starting Helicopter Services to Lingshed and requested the Advisor to revise the present fares for these heli-services. Advisor instructed Divisional Commissioner Ladakh to examine the issues for appropriate action.