Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, June 20: A delegation comprising members of Village Education Committee (VEC) Panamik led by its Councillor Tsering Sandup called on the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra (Retired), at the LG’s Secretariat.
Advisor to the LG Dr Pawan Kotwal, Principal Secretary Sanjiv Khirwar, Commissioner/Secretary to the LG L Franklin and Director School Education Department Tsering Paldan were present in the meeting.
Sandup highlighted the issue of low enrolment of students at Government schools in Panamik and various steps taken by them such as organizing drives, camps and events to increase the enrolment of students. He requested the conversion of Government High School at Panamik into Eklavya Model Residential School; construction of residential hostels for 100 boys and girls, construction of staff quarter for teachers and providing bus facility to ferry students residing in far-off places to the school.
The LG asked Khirwar and Paldan to look into the matter and take necessary steps accordingly.
Further, a delegation comprising members of Chamber of Industries Leh led by its president Rinchen Namgial, called on the LG. Besides, Dr Pawan Kotwal, Sanjiv Khirwar and L Franklin, Secretary Amit Sharma was present in the meeting.
Rinchen apprised the LG of various issues faced by MSME units like them in Ladakh, viz. the need to relook at the e-tendering system of Government agencies for the execution of civil works and fabrication works and the separation of civil works and fabrication works to ensure their sustenance, establishing a procurement system in the form of raw materials bank in the interest of all MSME units, etc.
The LG asked Amit Sharma that SIDCO should be the nodal agency to work out a model on the lines of J&K Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (SICOP) and procure materials for the sustenance of MSME units in Ladakh. He also asked SIDCO for a bare minimum recruitment of staff to ensure the safety of Industrial Estate in Leh.
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