Leh, July 16: As a part of his 4 day tour to Durbuk and Nyoma Sub Division Chairman/CEC LAHDC, Leh Gyal P Wangyal yesterday visited the villages of Chushul constituency which included Mukleb, Yurgo, Phobrang, Lukung, Maan and Chushul villages. In the evening CEC visited the villages of Tsaga, Mudh, Nyoma and Nidar villages of Nyoma constituency.
CEC was accompanied by Executive Councilor (EC) Agriculture, Phunchok Stanzin, EC Education Konchok Stanzin, BDC chairperson Durbuk, Sub Divisional Magistrate Dubuk Rigzin Spalgon, Assistant Commissioner Dev. Leh, Sonam Chosjor, Concerned Executive Engineer and block level officers.
The people of Chushul constituency demanded permission to allow nomads to graze their livestock at Changchanmo area as it has been one of the main grazing lands for nomads since old times in the Chushul belt. The public representative and villagers of Maan areas demanded for early de-notification to demolish the tourist destination spot of Pangong lake area. They further demanded for immediate re-functioning of disrupted mobile communications in the wake of the Indo-China border dispute. They also demanded for installation of mobile towers in the area where unavailable of network and also demanded for upgradation of 3G and 4G network in the area where the network is functioning. Area councilor also demanded for connection of power supply with Northern Grid.
In response to the demands put forward by the public representatives and villagers, CEC Wangyal assured that the paperwork of the issues of Pangong area and grazing at Changchenmo were already submitted to the higher authorities and gave further assurance that all the demands would be fulfilled in due course of time. He also stated that the process of battery-change at the already set up solar power plants were in the tendering process and assured to complete all their demands on priority based and in phase manner.
At noon CEC Wangyal visited the villages of Nyoma constituency where he inaugurated the 42.5 KW solar power plants at Tsaga village in presence of Area Councilor Thupstan Wangchuk, Sub Divisional Magistrate Nyoma, Jigmet Rafstan and villagers of Tsaga, which was executed by Ladakh Renewable Energy Dev. Agency (LREDA) and funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy GoI. It is further informed that nearly 80 households will benefit after the installation of solar power plants.
During the visit, CEC Wangyal stated that this financial year LAHDC has enough funds for developmental purposes. Earlier Leh district got only 2% of the entire J&K state fund & now after Ladakh becoming Union Territory we have enough budget in addition to Special Development Package. Keeping in view the short working season CEC requested all the departments and public to cooperate for optimum expenditure and directed to work for high performance progress reports related to developmental works. He further added that due to the unprecedented Covid crises in the country as well as global, the working season would be affected which intimately flatten the development curve in Ladakh region and he advised the people to maintain the precautionary measure laid by the administration to contain the spread of novel Coronavirus.
At Nyoma, area Councilor Thupstan Wangchuk raised the demands of the public which mainly included shortage of doctors in Primary Health Centre, Nyoma and requested the Chairman for immediate posting of a Gynecologist. He also requested for an early solution to resolve the menace of stray dogs which had recently reported an attack on a child at Nyoma.
While interacting with the villagers of Chuschul and Nyoma constituency, EC Agriculture, Phuntsog Stanzin stressed on the implementation of Mission Organic Development Initiative scheme (MODI) in the Changthang belt. He further advised the people for taking maximum benefit from the ongoing Central Govt. Scheme of agriculture.
