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All-woman crew in Ladakh runs LPG plant that Army depends on SECTIONS Share Synopsis Every morning, Tsering Angmo leaves her two-year-old son with neighbours and commutes 20 km through a frozen landscape from her home in Choglamsar, a settlement near Leh, to work at Ladakh’s only LPG bottling plant near Leh. TIMESOFINDIA.COM (This story originally appeared in on Jan 31, 2021)LEH: Every morning, Tsering Angmo leaves her two-year-old son with neighbours and commutes 20 km through a frozen landscape from her home in Choglamsar, a settlement near Leh, to work at Ladakh’s only LPG bottling p...

The 12-woman crew handles all operations in the bottling plant, except loading of cylinders LEH: Every morning, Tsering Angmo leaves her two-year-old son with neighbours and commutes 20 km a frozen landscape from her home in Choglamsar, a settlement near Leh, to work at Ladakh’s only LPG bottling plant near Leh. Angmo is part of a 12-member all-women crew making sure the 50,000 Indian soldiers eyeballing the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) in Arctic temperature do not have to march on empty stomachs. The plant, built by state-run Indian Oil, together with refills stored by Hindustan Petr...