Ladakh rolls out drive to vaccinate those in 18-45 age group
Ladakh administration, along with some NGOs, stepped up to save over 7,000 trapped migrant labourers from starvation as these helpless non-local workers neither returned to their native places nor reach their workplaces, due to COVID restrictions.
A large number of labourers, the majority of them from Jharkhand, are hired by the contractors engaged with Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to execute developmental works in the Cold Desert. As Ladakh authorities have imposed COVID restrictions to check the spread of the deadly virus, these labourers are trapped in different places.
At some places, authorities with the support of local social groups, have started community kitchens while in other places dry ration is distributed among stranded non-local labourers.
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Students in Ladakh s Chushul constituency urge govt to install 4G towers for access to online education
Students in Ladakh s Chushul constituency have urged the government to install 4G internet towers in the region for enabling access to online education. Residents of the constituency also expressed apprehensions as they were not able to register online for COVID-19 vaccination.Â
According to Konchok Stanzin, the councillor of the local Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (Leh) of Chushul, VSAT network was installed to digitally connect all panchayats in 2019, but it works for only 8-10 people. There s trouble accessing internet if more people connect. Army, ITBP deployed here connect to the same WiFi source as students and villagers do. Residents keep asking me to set up 4G mobile towers in the region, mainly so that there s no hindrance in students education, Stanzin elaborated.Â
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