New Delhi, 9th June 2021: No outsider can get a job in any government department subordinate to the Union Territory of Ladakh. Only Ladakhis will get a job. LG Mathur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh, has issued a new rule and notification in this regard. The people of Ladakh were raising the issue of reservation in government jobs ever since they got the status of a separate union territory.

Lt Governor LG Mathur has today announced the Union Territory of Ladakh Employment (Subordinate) Services Recruitment Rules, 2021, in the exercise of his powers provided by the Constitution. As per Clause 11 of the Employment Rules notified today, no person is eligible for a government job unless he is a citizen of Ladakh. However, this rule will not be applicable to those persons who have been provided employment in Ladakh under Section 89(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 or whose services have been assigned to the Ladakh Administration.

Firoz Khan, chairman of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil, said that we had been making this demand for the last two years. We welcome it. We request the Lieutenant Governor to provide two years of relaxation in the upper age limit for the youth of Ladakh to get government jobs for some time. A similar law should also be made in the context of land and property in Ladakh.”