DC Leh chairs 2nd DLAC meeting of Safe Food and Healthy Diets

Leh, Jan 16: Deputy Commissioner, Leh/ Chairperson, District Level Advisory Committee (DLAC), Shrikant Suse, chaired the 2nd DLAC meeting of Safe Food and Healthy Diet. 

The meeting was attended by the concerned members of DLAC, including Chief Medical Officer, Leh; Chief Education Officer, Leh; Assistant Commissioner, Food Safety, Leh; Assistant Director, Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Leh; Executive Officer, Municipal Committee, Leh; District Program Officer, ICDS, Leh; Gener...

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Alamdar Nala clerics demands district status for Sankoo, affiliation with Police Station Kargil

VoL Desk, Jan. 14: Providing the transport facility and easy accessibility, the Majma-e-Ruhanion, Alamdar Nala of district Kargil demanded the UT Administration to keep the region intact with the Kargil Police Station instead of the newly upgraded Police Station, Panikhar.

The organisation maintained that for the public it would be difficult to reach Panikhar because of less vehicular movement than towards Kargil town.

The Majma-e-Ruhanion, a body of the clerics of Barsoo region that i...

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LLaRMA signs SLA with Monarch Surveyors & Engineering Consultants Pvt Ltd for digitization of revenue records and Survey / Resurvey Work

A historic moment for Ladakh, says PS Kotwal

Leh, Jan 13: Ladakh Land Records Management Agency (LLaRMA), under the chairmanship of Financial Commissioner, UT Ladakh Dr. Pawan Kotwal signed the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with M/S Monarch Surveyors and Engineering Consultants Pvt Ltd and Consol Geo Technologies Pvt. Ltd for executing the survey/resurvey of digitization of revenue records under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Program (DILRMP).

Dr. Kotwal termed the occasi...

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Shahnaz Parveen brings laurels by winning gold at National University Games

VoL Desk, Jan. 13: Shahnaz Parveen, who hails from Sankoo, Kargil, became the first female athlete from Ladakh to win a gold medal in a national event as she won the top honours in Group Poomsae under-30 at the National University Games held in Punjab.

Parveen was representing her university Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak at the National level games, which included participants from over 146 universities from across India.

CEC LAHDC, Kargil, Feroz Ahmad Khan congratulated Shahnaz...

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Army provide artifical limb to disabled porters

VoL Desk, Jan. 12: Kargil Sentinels Brigade in a noble initiative under OP SADBHAVANA arranged for fitment of artificial limb for disabled porters in Kargil, read a press release issued by the Brigade.

The Army provide artificial limb to Mr Mohd Ishaq resident of village Karkit, Budgam, Kargil who lost his left foot on 11 Oct 1999 and Mr Tahir Ali resident of village Hardas, Kargil who lost his left lower leg on 26 Aug 2017 while fetching stores. Both the individual were rendered disabled...

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Municipal Committee Kargil donates clothes at ‘Wall of Kindness’

Kargil, Jan 12, 2023: Executive Officer, Municipal Committee Kargil Mohd Saleem on Wednesday donated cloths from the cloth donation bank MC Kargil to ‘Wall of Kindness’ in the hand of its founder Ali Wazir.

Ali Wazir thanked MC Kargil for donating the clothes and expressed gratitude to the Committee.

He created this wall back in 2019 to help the needy and since then people have shown great admiration and immense support by donating their clothes and many needy people could be seen taki...

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Ladakh Administration to provide fortified wheat

Fortified salt, oil, and milk to be promoted; Principal Secretary Kotwal

Leh, Jan 11: Principal Secretary/Commissioner Food Safety, UT Ladakh Dr. Pawan Kotwal chaired a meeting to review progress made towards providing fortified food grains in Ladakh.

As per the National Family Health Survey-5; more than 90 percent of children and women (under different age groups) in Ladakh have been found to be anemic. To fight this health condition caused mainly by iron deficiency due to the limited...

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One-day brainstorming workshop on Jal Jeevan Mission in Ladakh

Leh, January 10:  A day-long brainstorming workshop on Jal Jeevan Mission was organized by District Water and Sanitation Mission, Leh and PHED, Ladakh at Hotel Zen, Leh for the officials of PHED, Leh division.

In his inaugural address, Commissioner/Secretary, PHE, A K Sahu stated that the success of Jal Jeevan Mission in Ladakh is the result of overwhelming community ownership and the relentless work of the JJM workforce who must feel proud of their achievement so far. He said that many o...

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Ladakh was far better being part of J&K, says Apex Body

Srinagar, Jan 11, KNT: Days after the Apex Body of Ladakh and Kargil Democratic Alliance refused to be part of the high-powered committee constituted by the Government of India, Tsering Dorjay, leader of the Apex Body of Leh and senior vice president of Ladakh Buddhist Association has said that ‘being part of Kashmir’ was better for the people of Ladakh.

He said they were better off in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir than under the Union Territory administration.

The Apex Body...

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Acting CEC attends awareness program of Cooperative Dept.

Kargil, Jan 10, 2023:  Acting Chairman/CEC and Executive Councilor Tourism, RD and Zanskar Affairs, LAHDC, Kargil, Er. Punchok Tashi today attended the awareness camp as a chief guest organized by the Cooperative Department, Kargil.

Executive Councilor, Health, Mohsin Ali, Deputy Commissioner/CEO, LAHDC, Kargil, Santosh Sukhadeve (chief guest), Director Animal/Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries, Dr. Muhammad Raza, ACR A.G. Zargar, BDCs, Deputy Register Cooperative Department, Kargil, Dr. Zakir...

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