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| PM cancels Ladakh tour, Chidambaram to visit on Oct 30 | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 22: Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who was scheduled to conduct an inspection of the relief and reconstruction work in Ladakh on November 2nd next, has suddenly canceled his programme. According to official sources, a letter faxed from PMO did not mention reasons but communicated that the PM’s visit to Ladakh on November 2nd stood ‘postponed’. It did not mention any rescheduled programme,
Joint Secretary in PMO, Sanjay Mitra, today visited different sitesin Leh district in the company of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and a high-level delegation of senior bureaucrats from Srinagar. He later flew back to New Delhi with Chief Minister.
Sources said that the union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, would be now visiting Ladakh alongwith Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, T K Nair, on October 30th. A six-member Task Force on Ladakh, earlier constituted by Home Minister, would be separately arriving in Leh on October 28th. It is scheduled to meet a large number of officials, politicians and members of civil society for three days in Leh and Kargil districts before extensive sessions with a number of Ladakh-related Ministers, politicians and officials in Srinagar.
Sources said that the Task Force would also meet Chairman and members of State Finance Commission, senior officials of Planning and Department of Ladakh Affairs, Minister incharge Ladakh Affairs Mr Abdul Rahim Rather and Minister of Tourism Nawan Rigzin Jora. Two other Tasf Forces, constituted by union Home Ministry, would be carrying out similar exercises in Kashmir and Jammu around the same time.
Meanwhile, reports from New Delhi said that all three interlocutors, who were appointed by Prime Minister last week, would begin their maiden tour of five days to the state on Saturday. Sources said that journalist Dileep Padgoankar, academic Radha Kumar and former Information Commissioner M M Ansari, would interact with officials, politicians and members of civil society, including university teachers, mediapersons, lawyers, judges, doctors, engineers, columnists, traders, industrialists, students, cultural activists as also representatives of displaced Kashmiri Pandits. |
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