Whenever I raise my voice about injustices in Ladakh the government media machinery gets activated to target me & our institute HIAL’s land lease.
Please take the message, don’t kill the messenger.
A quick look at this letter shows their own delays if not incompetence.
In all, 5 written appeals, 15 visits & 30 calls were made appealing for timely execution of land lease.
Please help me by sharing this with all media houses that covered the issue.
#Ladakh #HIAL #SonamWangchuk
UT Ladakh Administration: A spectacle of bureaucratic dishonesty and incompetence!
The @Ladakh administration has the audacity to tell the High Court and the national media that HIAL failed to execute its land lease.
Really? Then perhaps they should first read their own letters before making a public spectacle of themselves.
We applied for the lease on 20 May 2018, barely 15 days after the land was allotted.
We wrote again in March 2020. They themselves replied that the lease could not be executed because the administration had not finalised its lease policy.
In February 2021, they repeated the same explanation, admitted that the delay affected other institutions too, and explicitly permitted us to continue construction.
We wrote again in July 2023.
Four dates. Written correspondence. Official signatures and stamps. Their own admissions.
And now they have the gall to make it appear that HIAL was responsible for the delay!
What kind of administration creates the obstacle, sits on it for years, and then blames the institution that has been pleading with it to remove that very obstacle?
This is abysmal governance. A bureaucratic absurdity elevated to an art form.
And what makes it worse is the spectacle of these allegations being circulated through the national media while the matter is sub judice.
Is the purpose to assist the Court in establishing the truth, or to destroy an institution's reputation before the facts have even been examined?
Ladakh needs statesmen. Instead, we seem to have acquired petty shopkeepers of power, keeping accounts of imagined offences while remaining conveniently oblivious to their own failures.
The tragedy is that these are the very people entrusted with nurturing institutions, encouraging innovation and building Ladakh's future.
HIAL has spent years trying to build an educational institution that addresses the real challenges of the Himalayas. Instead of enabling such work, the administration appears determined to bury it beneath paperwork, contradictions and public accusations.
And then they have the temerity to lecture us about compliance!
You cannot fail to put a lease policy in place, repeatedly acknowledge that failure in writing, and then pretend that the institution waiting for your policy is the culprit.
That is not accountability. It is an attempt to turn administrative failure into someone else's wrongdoing.
The documents are attached. They speak far more eloquently than any press briefing.
Before maligning HIAL, the Ladakh administration should answer one question: Why did you repeatedly tell us the lease could not be executed because YOUR policy was not ready?
Stop insulting the intelligence of the people of Ladakh.
We deserve competent governance, not manufactured narratives.
#HIAL #Ladakh #Accountability #RuleOfLaw
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Two more tabs have also been added, one for intent and one for media.
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'Media' contains 800+ Palestinian films, documentaries, and books that we will preserve from being erased.
God bless.
🚨This is HUGE. And Deeply Worrying
“China’s PLA is far ahead of us. We won’t be able to face them.” -ITBP DG
And for the last 12 years, Modi ji was busy feeding the nation crocodile tales about his 56-inch chest. 😭
Akshay, you know very well that Amit Shah is the one giving protection to these gangsters. He is directly responsible for threatening your livelihoods, your family’s safety and your fellow actors in the industry.
The more you behave like slaves in front of him, the more he will treat you like trash. But the moment you unite as an industry and take a courageous stand, they will be taken aback.
Luckily, you have earned enough money and fame for next 5 generations. This Gunda Raj of dictator will end soon, in a few more years. The only questions is, How will you look back upon this time? What will you tell your grandchildren?
That you bowed down in the hope of an illusion of safety? Or you had the guts to show some courage? Take some inspiration from your fellow industry people like Imran Khan and Prakash Raj.
I know the whole industry is under a lot of pressure but the sooner we have our country back, the sooner you and your fellow actors can have the good old freedom and peace again :)
#India
“We call on the authorities to immediately cease the use of excessive force, rescind blanket assembly bans, and refrain from the misuse of digital surveillance, including through biometrics, and internet disruptions.”
- @UN_SPExperts
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UN experts called for an independent investigation into Indian authorities' conduct in a recent crackdown on protests, where they said demonstrators had sustained injuries and some reported being subjected to ill-treatment https://t.co/kFy5Ug17z7
In every language, everywhere, human rights belong to all of us.
They are non-negotiable.
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