Who Is A Resident Of Ladakh? Locals Ask After Govt바카라�s Recruitment Notification

As the Union Territory of Ladakh government reserved subordinate services posts for the residents of Ladakh, political parties and student activists are asking the government to define 바카라�who is a resident of the Ladakh.바카라�

The new recruitment rules are mentioned in Clause 11 of the Union Territory of Ladakh Employment (Subordinate) Service Recruitment Rules, 2021. The order says no person shall be qualified for appointment to the service 바카라�unless the person is a Resident of Union Territory of Ladakh.바카라� It defines 바카라�resident of Union Territory of Ladakh바카라� as 바카라�any person who satisfies the criteria for residence as may be prescribed for employment under the Administration of UT of Ladakh under any Act, Rule or Regulation having the force of law in UT of Ladakh.바카라�

바카라�This new notification is surprising. The government of India has not extended any law to Ladakh after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of J&K. We used to have a permanent resident certificate under the state subject laws in the erstwhile state of J&K. It is no longer there after the abrogation of Article 370. There is no domicile law. We don바카라�t know how they will define who is a resident of Ladakh and who will identify him,바카라� says former chief Executive councilor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil, Asgar Ali Karbali.

Prominent student activist of the region Jigmat Paljor welcomed the government notification but he says the government needs to clarify 바카라�who is a resident of Ladakh.바카라� 바카라�The notification making subordinate service jobs specific to residents of Ladakh is a welcome move. We also demand Public Service Commission for recruitment of group A and group B state service posts,바카라� he said.

바카라�But the notification is not clear about the definition of a resident of Ladakh. The government needs to clarify that what are the documents, what are the basis on which people will be defined as the residents of Ladakh,바카라� he says.

Karbali says since August 5, 2019, the government of India has done nothing to define the resident of Ladakh through any central notification or order. 바카라�Now under this recruitment rules notification, it will be administrative secretary of Ladakh government, who will be defining who is resident of Ladakh without any law guiding him.바카라�

바카라�It is a bureaucrat who will finally decide on his own will who is Ladakhi and who is not,바카라� he says.

Karbali says the notification doesn바카라�t define what would happen to gazetted posts. 바카라�For undefined Ladakhi residents, they have only fourth class posts,바카라� he adds. 바카라�In Jammu and Kashmir, there is direct recruitment through SSRB and Public Service Commission. In Ladakh there is no PSC at all,바카라� he adds. Karbali also questions the probation period of two years specified in the notification. 바카라�You cannot put any person for probation of two years,바카라� he adds.

 A senior official told Outlook that the Ladakh government has issued the notification under proviso of S.O 282(E). He says the Union Ministry of Home under this proviso on January 21, 2021, has delegated powers to the Ladakh administration in the recruitment of group c including class fourth and group-b (non-gazetted). 바카라�But there is no clarity who is resident of Ladakh as any notification in this regard has not been issued,바카라� he added. 

After the abrogation of Article 370, Article 35A of the Indian Constitution on August 5, 2019, and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, J&K, and Ladakh, the Centre government issued two gazette notification for the adaptation of central laws in the concurrent list for J&K. Through these notifications the government has defined domiciles of J&K and extended a series of other laws to J&K. But no such notification was issued in case of Ladakh.

In March this year, the Peoples Movement of Ladakh, an amalgam of different Leh-based parties, had asked for a Sikkim-type 30-seat legislature for the Union Territory of Ladakh.