LEH: Chief Executive Councillor (CEC), Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Dr Sonam Dawa, held a meeting and was attended by district officers for smooth regulation of traffic in view of the upcoming tourist season in the region. Speaking during the meeting, Dr Dawa said that Leh was facing a serious challenge of increasing traffic snarls which disturbs the eco-system of Ladakh. “To minimize the impact on the environment, we must collectively find a way out,” he suggested. Dr Dawa told the meeting about upcoming multi layer parking facility in the heart of the city to accommodate nearly 250 vehicles at a time and asked taxi union to vacate their space so that work on new parking space can be started at the earliest. He said expanding capacity of parking in Leh was need of the hour. He also referred to the proposal to make another underground parking lot at Polo Ground to meet growing demand. CEC also directed the administration to ensure parking space while issuing building permits. Deputy Commissioner Prasanna Ramaswamy told the meeting that Rs 25 crore has been sanctioned for the parking space in the city and existing taxi union and bus union and others will be relocated to a new place. He also instructed to remove the unauthorized check points along the National Highway and asked the senior superintendent of police to keep a check on it. The meeting discussed on various issues which included traffic management, retiring of 15 year old vehicles from service, erecting of unnecessary barricades at various locations by army, self driven hired cars in view of court case on the matter and operation of non local taxis. Responding to a query of Dorjay Angchok, chairman, All Ladakh Transport Union, who demanded issuance of new permits to unemployed youth, Ramaswamy said that
LEH: Chief Executive Councillor (CEC), Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Dr Sonam Dawa, held a meeting and was attended by district officers for smooth regulation of traffic in view of the upcoming tourist season in the region. Speaking during the meeting, Dr Dawa said that Leh was facing a serious challenge of increasing traffic snarls
LEH: The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) has decided to design a software to charge Ladakh environment fees online for the convenience of tourists and to bring transparency to the system. LAHDC Leh Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) Dr. Sonam Dawa Lonpo convened a meeting to discuss about the utilization of environmental fees charged from tourists visiting Leh on Saturday. The meeting was attended by EC Works Dorjey Mutup, EC Agriculture Tsering Wangdus, EC Animal & Sheep Husbandry Mumtaz Hussain, all the councilors, nominated councilors, Administrator Municipal Committee, AD Tourism, Wildlife Warden, President All Ladakh Tour Operators Association (ALTOA), Hotel Association and Taxi Union. Addressing the meeting, CEC informed that at present under the account head of environment fees a total of Rs 3 crore has been collected which besides Ladakh environment fees includes rent of Ladakh House, Sindhu Sanskriti Kendra, Conference Hall, shooting charges and amount charged from non-residential students. He said that the objective of collecting Ladakh environment fees is to generate income resource for Council to make itself sustainable in some ways and to cut down the dependency on government funds which is meager to meet all the developmental needs and demands. “We cannot wait for government money to provide with facilities to promote tourism and it’s mandatory to take initiatives at our level to address the issues. It can only be achieved if we work in unity ensuring collective and coordinate efforts by all the stakeholders involved,” Dr Dawa said. During the meeting it was decided unanimously to make payment of environment fees online for domestic tourists also to ensure transparency in the system. It was also decided to enhance the environmental fee for both foreign and domestic tourists from next year onwards and CEC urged the concern stakeholders to come up with a fee structure
LEH: The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) has decided to design a software to charge Ladakh environment fees online for the convenience of tourists and to bring transparency to the system. LAHDC Leh Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) Dr. Sonam Dawa Lonpo convened a meeting to discuss about the utilization of environmental fees charged from
