{"id":224958,"date":"2023-02-03T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224958"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:07:15","slug":"fire-and-ice-problem-facing-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fire-and-ice-problem-facing-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and ice \u2013 Problem facing Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cFire and ice\u201d <\/strong>published in<strong> The Hindu<\/strong> on <strong>3rd February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Polity. GS1- Regionalism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Regional political issues<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The people of Ladakh are on agitation for their demands.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the demands of agitating people in Ladakh?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>They are demanding the inclusion of the region in the <strong>Sixth Schedule under Article 244 of the Constitution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other demands are restoration of<strong> full-fledged Statehood, separate Lok Sabha seats for Leh and Kargil districts and job reservation for locals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They describe the demands as key to <strong>protecting Ladakh\u2019s identity, culture and the fragile environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the main issues facing Ladakhi people?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Soon after its creation as a UT in August 2019, Ladakh came under a bureaucracy. It has been <strong>hostile and unresponsive<\/strong> to the local population.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>constant tussle <\/strong>between locals, elected representatives of two Hill Councils of Kargil and Leh has only widened over the months.<\/p>\n<p>Leh\u2019s political and religious bodies formed the Leh <strong>Apex Body<\/strong> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In Kargil district, some political parties and Shia Muslim-affiliated seminaries joined hands in November 2020 to form the <strong>Kargil Democratic Alliance<\/strong>. It is advocating for <strong>re-joining with the erstwhile J&amp;K State and restoration of its special status under Article 370<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the response of the centre?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Centre appears to be in a bind. <strong>The two committees <\/strong>appointed by it to reassure the local populations have made little progress in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Second committee appointed this year under the Minister of State has only deepened local anger. It has <strong>no mandate to address the issues<\/strong> being raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cFire and ice\u201d published in The Hindu on 3rd February 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Polity. GS1- Regionalism Relevance&#8211; Regional political issues News&#8211; The people of Ladakh are on agitation for their demands. What are the demands of agitating people in Ladakh? They are demanding the inclusion of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fire-and-ice-problem-facing-ladakh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire and ice \u2013 Problem facing Ladakh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,212,10498],"class_list":["post-224958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704948776},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}