Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, July 29: Two-day long tour of DC/CEO, LAHDC, Leh Avny Lavasa to the village of Lingshed, Skumpata, Youlchung and Neyraks of trans Himalayan region was completed.
She was accompanied by Councillor Lingshed Sonam Dorjay, ADDC, Leh Moses Kunzang, SDM Khaltsi Tsering Motup, ACD Tsering Paldan, X-en PMGSY, X-en R&B and head of concern departments.
Addressing the gathering at Lingshed, DC Leh asserted that the coming of road will ease other developmental works in the area and many of their grievances and problems will be solved.
DC gave assurance to consider all their demands and committed to get a V-set installed in next 15 days on priority to address their communication problem. As demanded by Councilor Lingshed Sonam Dorjay about helicopter services in Lingshed, DC gave assurance to do the best at the level of administration to provide heli services to Lingshed. She also visited the medical NTPC and Government school at Lingshed and directed the concern engineer to provide the school and medical centre with pipeline for drinking water.
At Skumpata, the village Nambarder demanded for irrigation canal, construction of guest room, medical sub centre, ration store, heli-service and communication upgradation. DC gave a patient hearing and assured to address their problems on priority. DC also gave assurance to install V-Set communication services as soon as possible in their village.
Enroute to Youlchung, DC visited ICDS centre and also inaugurated newly constructed additional classroom that was completed in 2018 at the cost of Rs 7 lakh by Education Department. Sarpanch Youlchung presented the village demands including upgradation of Primary School to Middle School, additional teacher, construction of irrigation canal, repair of medical center, Heli-services and upgradation of communication. Lavasa directed the HOD of concern departments for timely completion of the ongoing projects and assured to consider their demands.
Neyraks was the last village where people demanded for number of development projects like providing fund for construction of Primary School, to permit chadar trekking for 8 days instead of 5 days, to permit tourists to visit till Linshed village, repair of water taps, provide land compensation and construct link road from Kong-tse to medical sub center. In response Lavasa instructed SDM Khaltsi to give compensation to the villagers for land, trees, fodder land and irrigation khuls that were damaged during road construction to Neyrak village by BRO 81 RCC. She also directed RDD to handover the newly constructed ration store to the public and PHE Department to repair the water taps.
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