Members of Advisory Committee on their visit to Leh convened a meeting with all the district officers of Leh at DC Office Conference hall, Leh on September 26.

The meeting was chaired by Sanjay Mitra, IAS Retd accompanied by Arun Goyal, IAS Retd and Giriraj Prasad Gupta, ICAS Retd. Div Com Ladakh Suagat Biswas, DC, Leh Sachin Kumar, SSP Leh Sargun Shukla, ADDC, Leh Moses Kunzang and all the district officers attended the meeting.

Mitra asked for department wise requirement of assets from J&K state and present liabilities. He directed the HODs to do a detailed study of department’s assets at directorate level and submit the list of their requirements as per availability to DC, Leh at the earliest. He gave full assurance to consider their issues and address them accordingly.

Some of the major issues highlighted include the shift of school board from J&K Board to C.B.S.E Board, extension of board examination from October to March, to increase diet charges in residential schools. 

SSP projected the need for mobile BB Bunker, water tanker, traffic signals, toeing vehicle and solar run street lights. DFO Leh pressed on the need to forest land in Ladakh, CMO projected the need of MRI machine, Nursing College and more specialized doctors. 
Others issues were the requirement of office infrastructure, shortage of manpower, vehicle and late release of state funds raised by various officers.    

Earlier on September 21, a meeting was held Leh at Council Secretariat where Gyal P Wangyal, CEC; Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, MP Ladakh and Tsering Dorjey Lakrook, Former MLC strongly demanded a due share of assets from J&K State to the UT Ladakh including land and buildings from New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai. They also said that land and buildings purchased and build by LAHDC, Leh at Jammu and Srinagar must remain with UT Ladakh. Proper distribution of moveable assets including the helicopter, SRTC Buses, Security vehicles including bulletproof vehicles, Garages vehicles were also discussed at length.