Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 21: Promising to make Nobra a model constituency, PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti has said empowerment of the Ladakh region through Hill Development Councils of Leh and Kargil districts is a shining example of her party’s devolution of power and governance to the common people.
Addressing public meetings at Diskit, Takshi-Thang, Turtuk, Bokhtan and Hunder, etc, Mehbooba stressed that people of these areas need amenities like health and education literally at their doorsteps because of the daunting distances even between the villages not speak of tortuous road connections with Leh or Srinagar.
Referring to the fact that Shah-i-Hamdhan is believed to have passed through the area and there are a number of landmarks associated with him, Mehbooba said there would be larger number of people even from the Kashmir Valley to visit the area. With a view to tapping that potential, the PDP Government would develop those sites and conserve the heritage buildings linked with Shah-i-Hamdhan and Silk Route, she added.
Mehbooba said in order to empower the people of this area, Tashi Gaylson, PDP’s candidate for Nobra constituency, would in case of his winning the election, be taken in the council of ministers if the PDP forms the Government. This, she said, will be the first time that this area would be represented in the Government effectively.
The PDP president said the effort of her party if it receives the mandate to form the next Government would be to construct Turtuk-Hannu road, upgrade schools and provide trained teaching staff to them apart from equipping them with libraries and laboratories and also providing special health care locally. She further said that tourism would be developed and more avenues of growth and employment would be created.
Referring to the problem of the divided families of Turtuk area, Mehbooba said that reopening Turtuk-Khapla-Skardo road was part of the PDP’s Self-Rule agenda and it would immediately try to establish a meeting point for the divided families on the pattern of similar facility at Teetwal.
PDP chief spokesman Nayeem Akhtar and Tashi Gaylson, PDP candidate for Nobra constituency; D Phonsung and Gh Mohammad Chatapa were also present on the occasion.
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