Punjab, Oct. 15 -- Narendra Modi dedicated five Ladakh projects worth about Rs 3,350 crore by video conference on Thursday - two days after China called India's publication of standardised names for 28 places in Ladakh "illegal and void".
The projects
Five projects, around Rs 3,350 crore, dedicated at about 12.30pm by video link. The reported focus areas are an airport, a strategic road and water security - which is a fair description of what Ladakh's infrastructure gap actually consists of.
Water security in Ladakh is not a rhetorical category. Leh and the surrounding villages depend on glacier melt channelled through traditional systems, and the glaciers are retreating while the population and the garrison both grow. It is the constrai...