Centre proposes a customised constitutional model for Ladakh amid demands for safeguards
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- Ladakh’s civil society bodies rejected a 32-page Union Home Ministry proposal, calling it a departure from earlier assurances and commitments.
- Ladakh Chief Secretary Ashish Kundra said the Centre remained committed to dialogue and a customised sui generis constitutional model for local demands.
- Open questions include nomenclature, composition and election of the proposed body, representation of women and under-represented communities, delimitation, electoral rolls and tenure.
- Ladakh is fully dependent on the Centre for funding salaries and pensions and lacks the separate public account arrangements available to Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi.
- exam_relevance: tests Union Territory governance, asymmetrical federalism, autonomous councils and the constitutional design problem of protecting land, culture, employment and environment in a high-altitude frontier region.
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