Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh
Type
Type	Autonomous District Council of theLeh district
Leadership
Chief Executive Councillor	Tashi Gyalson, BJP since 31 October 2020
Structure
Seats	30 Councillors (26 Elected + 4 Nominated)
Political groups	Government (16)  BJP (16)[1] Opposition (10)  INC (9)  IND (1) Nominated (4)  NOM (4)
Elections
Voting system	26plurality voting + 4 Nominated
Last election	26 October 2020
Next election	2025
Meeting place
Leh,Ladakh
Website
leh.nic.in/lahdcleh/

TheLadakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh^[2] (LAHDC Leh) is one among the twoAutonomous District Council ofLadakh Union Territory. LAHDC Leh administers theLeh district ofLadakh,India.^[3]

The council was created under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act 1995, following demands ofLadakhi people to makeLeh District a new IndianUnion Territory because of its religious and cultural differences with the rest of Jammu and Kashmir. In October 1993, the IndianUnion Government and theJammu and Kashmir State Government agreed to grant Ladakh the status of Autonomous Hill Council.

The council came into being with the holding of elections on 28 August 1995. The inaugural meeting of the council was held at Leh on 3 September 1995. An Autonomous Hill Council has also been established in neighboringKargil District. The Hill Council in Kargil came in to existence in July 2003.

In 2003, as part of its "healing touch policy", the J&K government announced popular elections for the Autonomous Hill Development Council inKargil, which was meant to strengthen participatory forms of development, governance and democratic state-building in the war-ravaged district.^[4]

The autonomous hill councils work with villagepanchayats to take decisions on economic development, healthcare, education, land use, taxation, and local governance which are further reviewed at the block headquarters in the presence of the chief executive councillor and executive councillors.^[5] The administration of Union Territory of Ladakh looks after law and order, communications and the higher education in the districts.

In the elections for the LAHDC on26 October 2020, the BJP won 15 out of 26 seats.^[6][7]

The members of the executive committee are as follows:^[8]

On 8 May 2013 mutual collaboration for sustainable development in Ladakh in the tune with Ladakh Vision Document 2025 was jointly organised by LAHDC andNABARD at Sindhu Sanskriti Kendra inLeh. The workshop-cum-discussion session was inaugurated by the then Chief Executive Councillor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Rigzin Spalbar by lighting up the lamp in the presence of Executive Councillors.

In his introductory speech, Rigzin Spalbar talked about Ladakh Vision Document 2025 which was prepared in 2005 by a committee of 20 members headed by Sonam Dawa, former Chief Engineer and Advisor of Ladakh Ecological Development Group. These members belonging to different fields of expertise had put a great effort in the conceptualisation of the Vision Document. CEC took the opportunity to felicitate them at the function with a traditional scarf and a memento.

• Ladakh Marathon, a marathon organised by LAHDC
• Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil
• Jamyang Tsering Namgyal

• Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh
• Constituency map

• Government of Ladakh
• Autonomous district councils of India
• States and territories established in 1995
• Leh district
• 1995 establishments in Jammu and Kashmir

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