Commissioner/Secretary School Education and Urban Development Department, Ladakh, Ajeet Kumar Sahu called on Chairman and Chief Executive Councillor, LAHDC, Kargil, Feroz Ahmed Khan at Council Secretariat Kargil on 23 March.

Various issues regarding urban development like the Kargil Town Master Plan, an extension of Municipal Committee Kargil, Water Supply during winter and issues related to school education like the placement of lecturers, expediting of contractual lecturers, rationalisation of schools, implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 as well as Council Model Schools was discussed. 
The Commissioner Secretary, Urban Development Department informed that the issue was under active consideration of the UT Administration. 

Feroz Khan also took up the matter of exclusion of Ladakhi Lecturers from the list of 1700 lecturers posted as Senior lecturers by the Government of UT J&K and urged him to resolve the issue at the earliest. 

He sought the immediate attention of the UT Administration towards considerate posting of nurses from Kargil who have been posted in remote regions like Changthang and Nubra of Leh district after they were recruited through the concerned outsourcing agency.

Issues of the Junior Nurses who were recruited recently through outsourcing also came up for discussion. 

Responding to the issue, Commissioner/Secretary said that the UT Administration will try to find appropriate solution to the issues. While discussing the Council Model Schools, Commissioner/ Secretary Sahu stated that the UT Administration is willing to provide special funds to these schools. 

He further said that the kind of community mobilization done by the Council Model Schools was exemplary and need to be further supported financially.