Ladakh administration revokes allotment of land for Wangchuks institute

The Ladakh administration has cancelled the land allotment made in 2018 to local weather activist Sonam Wangchuk’s institute at Phyang village in Leh.

Mr. Wangchuk, an schooling reformer, has been the face of protests in Ladakh for the previous three years and had just lately joined a three-day starvation strike in Kargil to demand constitutional safeguards for the area.

After Ladakh grew to become a Union Territory in 2019, following revocation of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir below Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcation of the previous State, its civil society teams erupted in protests a number of instances demanding Statehood, inclusion in Sixth Schedule of the Constitution (tribal standing for Ladakh) to protect land and tradition, and employment alternatives.

An order issued on Friday (August 21) by Romil Singh Donk, Deputy Commissioner, Leh, stated, that the land measuring 1076 kanal and 1 marla (round 135 acres) allotted to Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning (HIAL) “stands escheated to the State i.e. LAHDC (Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council) and the Tehsildar, Leh shall take away all of the encumbrances from the stated piece of state land as per provisions of the legislation and impact entries within the income report accordingly.”

The order stated that the land in Phyang was given to HIAL on lease for 40 years including that it has not been used for the aim allotted “as no University (as recognised by legislation) has been arrange” until date.

It stated that “no lease settlement has been executed in respect of the allotted land and no formal handing over and taking up of the stated land has taken place by Tehsildar Leh until date, as per report.”

The order stated the allotment order lapsed on May 5, 2019, and is deemed to have been cancelled as one of many circumstances to execute the lease deed inside a interval of 1 yr from the order issuance date was not fulfilled.

Mr. Wangchuk couldn’t be reached for a remark.

HIAL’s web site says that it goals to develop Ladakh right into a benchmark for a sustainable financial residing for the mountain world, the place all youngsters obtain a significant schooling that prepares them for a lifetime of dignity in concord with nature.

On October 6, 2024, Mr. Wangchuk sat on an indefinite quick in Delhi to attract the federal government’s consideration to calls for following which the Ministry of Home Affairs agreed to renew the talks with a high-powered committee comprising leaders from Leh and Kargil.