{"id":4489,"date":"2023-01-05T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:09:54","slug":"why-has-a-high-power-ladakh-committee-been-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/why-has-a-high-power-ladakh-committee-been-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has a High-Power Ladakh Committee been formed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the<\/strong> <strong>High-Power Ladakh Committee:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The committee will discuss measures to:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>protect the region\u2019s unique culture and language taking into consideration its geographical location and strategic importance;<\/li>\n<li>ensure protection of land and employment for the people of Ladakh;<\/li>\n<li>strategise inclusive development and discuss issues related to the empowerment of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill District Councils of Leh and Kargil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why was the committee formed?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>After the unique status of the formerly-existing State of Jammu and Kashmir under <strong>Article 370 of the Constitution<\/strong> was read down by Parliament on August 5, 2019, civil society organisations in Ladakh have been calling for the protection of land, resources, and jobs for the previous three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the sixth schedule?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The sixth schedule under Article 244 of the Constitution<\/strong> protects the autonomy of tribal populations through creation of autonomous development councils which can frame laws on land, public health and agriculture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>As of now ten autonomous councils exist in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As per the 2011 Census, <strong>the total population of Ladakh was 2,74,289, and nearly 80% of them are tribal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Article 370?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It was included in the Constitution on October 17, 1949, which exempted J&amp;K from the Indian Constitution (except Article 1 and Article 370 itself) and permits the state to draft its own Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/explained-why-has-a-high-power-ladakh-committee-been-formed\/article66339539.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why has a high-power Ladakh committee been formed?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Power Ladakh Committee will discuss measures to protect the region\u2019s unique culture and language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}