Ladakh’s Kargil district today seethed in anger over the alleged failure of the UT Administration to frame a policy for the evacuation of local people being quarantined in Rajasthan and other parts of the country, with elected representatives threatening to submit mass resignation.

The elected representatives of the district said the Ladakh UT Administration and the Centre would be responsible if any untoward incident happened to the Ladakhi people in the country.

‘Sorry state of affairs’

The sorry state of affairs in the UT can be judged from the lame excuse of the administration over the non-availability of accommodation facility for 10,000 persons stranded outside. Our people will provide and coordinate with the administration to take all precautions while accommodating the people if evacuated to Kargil — Feroz Ahmad Khan, Chief Executive Councillor, Kargil

“It is unfortunate that the Ladakh UT Administration has failed to frame any policy for the evacuation of local people who are quarantined in Jodhpur or any other part of the country. Furthermore, there is no policy for the evacuation of Ladakhi people stranded in Iran,” Feroz Ahmad Khan, Chief Executive Councillor (CEC), Kargil, told reporters in Kargil town after attending a meeting of the executive councillors, president Municipal Committee, Kargil, president and general secretary of the Panchayat Coordination Committee, Kargil.

“We demand immediate evacuation of pilgrims who have completed their quarantine period and the remaining pilgrims stranded in Iran. We also demand for the evacuation of students and other citizens from outside the UT and permission for the stranded passengers to move within the UT,” Khan said.

“The sorry state of affairs in the UT can be judged from the lame excuse of the administration over the non-availability of accommodation facility for 10,000 persons stranded outside. Our people will provide and coordinate with the administration to take all precautions while accommodating the people if evacuated to Kargil,” the CEC said.

He said all democratically elected bodies had decided that quarantine facilities would be raised at various levels by pooling in all combined resources.

“Keeping in view the upcoming month of Ramzan, we demand the issue be resolved within a week failing which the administration will be responsible for any law and order problem,” he said and also demanded for unrestricted supply of essential commodities to Ladakh via Zojila.