Vinai Kumar Saxena is Ladakh’s 4th LG, calls region ‘crown of India’

SRINAGAR: Vinai Kumar Saxena took oath arsenic the 4th Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh Friday, succeeding Kavinder Gupta. Prior to this appointment, Saxena served arsenic the LG of Delhi.The oath of bureau and secrecy was administered by the Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Justice Arun Palli, astatine a ceremonial successful Central Institute of Buddhist Studies (CIBS), Choglamsar.Saxena described Ladakh arsenic the “crown of India” and assured that helium would enactment wholeheartedly successful accordance with people’s aspirations and requirements. He said helium intends to sojourn villages and distant areas crossed Ladakh to recognize the problems radical look connected the ground, and place practical, sustainable solutions.

Saxena said Ladakh possesses tremendous tourism imaginable and emphasised that 1 of his cardinal priorities would beryllium to marque Ladakh 1 of the astir beauteous and sought-after tourism destinations successful the state and the world.Saxena said helium would enactment successful adjacent coordination with the radical and question their practice successful transforming Ladakh into a developed and progressive UT.