Leh: Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Monday that the Ministry of Home Affairs had decided to establish five new districts in the Ladakh Union territory.
Zanskar, Drass, Sham, Nubra, and Changthang are the newly established districts. The government anticipates that these will enhance public service delivery and bring government programs closer to the people living in these isolated areas.
“In pursuit of PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s vision to build a developed and prosperous Ladakh, the MHA has decided to create five new districts in the union territory. The new districts, namely Zanskar, Drass, Sham, Nubra and Changthang, will take the benefits meant for the people to their doorsteps by bolstering governance in every nook and cranny. The Modi government is committed to creating abundant opportunities for the people of Ladakh,” Shah posted on X.
The state was split into two distinct Union territories—Jammu and Kashmir with an assembly and Ladakh without a legislature—by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act of 2019.
With the union government’s authority to impose law and order, center laws were thereafter made applicable in these two union territories.
The decision also aligns with the announcement of the September assembly elections for Jammu and Kashmir, which will be held for the first time since the northern-most state’s special status was scrapped in 2019.
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