Overview

• Kavinder Gupta chaired his inaugural high-level meeting with Ladakh’s administrative secretaries and department heads after his July 18 swearing-in.
• He issued directives for a comprehensive 100-day action plan targeting tangible improvements in governance, infrastructure and public services.
• Chief Secretary Pawan Kotwal outlined recruitment progress across UT and district cadres, implementation of the domicile law and highlighted roughly Rs 6,000 crore in budget allocations over the past four years.
• Officials reviewed the Ministry of Home Affairs’ proposal for five new districts with a kh BuddBuddhist Association delegation pressing for formal notification and an estimated 5,000 personnel needed for operationalisation.
• Secretary for Power Vikram Singh Malik detailed the renewable energy strategy including updates on the solar power project at Pang as a key growth engine.