Politics and governance

Tsering Dolkar (TD): Congratulations on winning the election! What worked in your favour in this election? Did you expect to win by a margin of 27,862 votes?Haji Mohmad Haneefa Jan (HMHJ): Thank you! What worked in my favour is that I had filed the nomination taking into consideration the issues facing Ladakh i.e. the four-point […]

Once Ladakh was declared a Union Territory (UT) on 5 August, 2019, its governance came directly under Government of India. Earlier, when Ladakh was a part of the J&K state dominion, it barely received any importance or exposure to understand the meaning of good governance. As a result, the UT of Ladakh was not really […]

Recently, the first anniversary of granting Union Territory (UT) status to Ladakh with the bifurcation of J&K state was marked on 5 August, 2020. This historical change has been greeted with joy and apprehension by the people of Ladakh. The sense of confusion remains even a year later. Over the last year, in addition to […]

The Changpas are the nomadic community that lives in eastern Ladakh. They are generally the first to encounter soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the event of a face-off. Heavy snowfall in the winters, force the Changpas to leave valley floors and climb the mountains in […]

Ladakh Power Development Department (PDD) was carved out of the erstwhile J&K Power Development Department and remains a fully-owned government department. The department’s role and responsibilities include buying electricity from power generating companies and selling it to consumers of different categories; domestic, commercial, industrial and government, to build transmission lines and supply electricity to remote […]