Sir,
Ref news item ‘ Leh elated, Kargil dejected over status to Ladakh’s DE Aug 6, 2019.
The Ladakhis are highly elated over getting UT status. They had been demanding this status for a long time now, but no one took their demand seriously. They approached every Government at the Centre in this connection, but got mere assurances and noting else. Now, they see that the long period of discrimination would come to end, and would see a new beginning in their lives where every one would get equal treatment in matters of employment and progress.
It may be mentioned here that the Ladakh division has not seen much development during last seven decades of independence. Though the different terrain of the region is one of the reason, more than it, it was the administrative apathy which played a key role in its negligence and backwardness. A new era has begun in the history of Ladakh division.
Tsering Namgyal
Jammu
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