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| Ladakh bids good bye to J&K, adopts new logo | | Nothing serious: Govt | | Syed Junaid Hashmi | 2/26/2011 12:37:12 AM |
| Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 25: Leh-Ladakh has bid good bye to the last symbol of government of Jammu and Kashmir on its soil and adopted a new official logo.
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) passed a resolution moved by a congress man in one voice to adopt a new logo based on national emblem of India. In the new logo adopted by LAHDC in its general council on February 21, 2011; while leaves alongwith rising sun and mountains in the background are intact, central portion has been replaced with lion capital of Ashoka from Sarnath, the National Emblem.
The development is significant and if political forces in Leh-Ladakh are to be believed, this is first step towards the achievement of union territory status. Leh has already not been using state flag of J&K. The new logo will now be permanent feature of Ladakh administration and according to some members of LAHDC; it would be put in operation once the work which is still going on it is complete.
“National Emblem of our country is now our logo. Council has already adopted it and we are now giving it final touches to ensure that it represents Ladakh’s administrative set-up in totto,” said Congress leader, Journalist and Councilor of LAHDC Tsewang Rigzin. It was Rigzin who moved the resolution for new logo.
Rigzin said that inclusion of a prominent symbol as the hill council’s logo indicates that LAHDC exists under a government act. “Otherwise, what used to happen is that outside Ladakh even an official letter from the hill council would often confuse whether LAHDC is a private organization or a democratically empowered government institution. It was need of the hour to ensure that people in the outside world come to know that hill council is a unique political dispensation for people of Ladakh” informed Rigzin.
He maintained that adopting country’s national emblem as hill council’s official logo would make the council more prominent and approve of the historic fact that Ladakhis are extremely patriotic people. Tsewang Rigzin, a prominent congress leader affirmed that he had sent the resolution for being taken up in the meeting the council on February 2, 2011 and the general adopted it unanimously.
Confirming the adoption of new logo in the general council, Executive Councillor (Health) Dr. Sonam Wanchuk said that the logo would now used in all the official communications with both Jammu and Kashmir government and rest of the country. “It would now be used on the official vehicles also. This was extremely important for us to assert our identity,” added Wanchuk.
Another councilor said that the new logo would give Ladakh a new identity. “In Jammu and Kashmir, Leh-Ladakh including Kargil are unknown entities. Our region figures nowhere in the official nomenclature of the state. This is first step towards the achievement of larger goal of union territory status,” added another councilor.
An official of Jammu and Kashmir government termed the development insignificant and said that it hardly makes any difference what the councilors in Ladakh do. “This does not make any news. A logo is no threat to the unity and integrity of Jammu and Kashmir,” added the official. However, he was mum when asked about which symbol represents Jammu and Kashmir in Ladakh.
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