Tourism Department

About Us

INTRODUCTION

The Directorate of Tourism, UT Ladakh is the main developmental, promotional and regulatory arm of the Tourism Department of UT Ladakh Government. Its main role comprises of overall planning and execution of schemes for the development, up-gradation and improvement of the tourism infrastructure in different parts of the UT.
The Department came into existence after the bifurcation of the Erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir into Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh during the year of 2019.
The Department has a “Directorate Office” head quartered at Kargil, Three “Tourist Offices” at Leh, Kargil & Zanskar, Three “Tourism Development Authorities” at Leh, Kargil & Zanskar and an Institution namely “Food and Craft Institute/State Institute of Hotel Management” at Leh. All these Offices are functioning under the Administrative Control of Secretary Tourism UT Ladakh.
The commercial activities as well as tourist related activities in the tourism sector from government side are looked by these three Tourist Offices, while as the Developmental activities like infrastructure development are looked after by the three Tourism Development Authorities under their respective jurisdiction.

Functions:

1. Up-gradation, improvement and Development of infrastructure in all provinces of UT Ladakh in order to boost Tourism in Ladakh.
2. Promotion of Tourism in Ladakh by using all possible modes of Advertisement & publicity.
3. To identify new areas having tourist potential in far flung areas of Ladakh and build the required necessary infrastructure in order to promote tourism.
4. The department is aiming to protect the unique environment of UT Ladakh by means of framing strict building regulations for all related to tourism and by making locals and tourists aware of the need to respect and protect the gifts of nature.
5. Restoration of sites of all religious faiths and promotion of Pilgrim Tourism.
6. The department is also bound to preserve the unique culture and heritage of UT Ladakh and to promote the same as tourist attractions.

ADT Leh

ADT Kargil

Kargil Development Authority

Leh Development Authority

Zanskar Development Authority

FCI

Organisation Chart

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Who's who

S.No	Name of the Officer/Official	Designation	Place of Posting
1	Kunzes Angmo (JKAS)	Director Tourism	Directorate of Tourism
2	Shamim Ahmad Wazir	Accounts Officer	Directorate of Tourism (Additional Charge)
3	Issa Khan	Assistant Accounts Officer	Directorate of Tourism
4	Mohd Ibrahim	Head Assistant	Directorate of Tourism
5	Mukhtar Ahmad	Jr. Statistical Assistant	(Attached to Planning Department, Civil Secretariat, UT Ladakh)
6	Abbass Ali	Jr. Assistant	Directorate of Tourism
7	Abdul Hussain	Orderly	Directorate of Tourism

Role & Responsibilities

S.No	Name of the Officer/Official	Role & Responsibility
1	Kunsez Angmo (JKAS) (Director Tourism)	HOD, Monitoring, Inspection & Supervision of all activities performance of the Directorate.
2	Aga Tawha ( Assistant Director H/Q)	Supervision of the daily routines of office
3	Shabir Ahmad ,(Accounts Officer)	DDO, Monitoring & Supervision of Accounts Section
4	Mohd Ibrahim ( Section Officer)	Establishment Section and Store
5	Najum UI Huda ( Legal Assistant)	Handling of all Legal activities and providing legal opinion
6	Tsering Punchok (Chauffeur)	Maintenance of the office Vehicle
7	Murtaza Ali ( Statistical Assistant )	Planning Section. Handling of all planning and statistics providing opinion on Budget and capital Expenditure, Maintenance of MPR, QPR and review works being executed by the DDOs.
8	Masuma Banoo (I/C Head Assistant)	Assisting Establishment Section and Store
9	Anwar Ali , (Assistant Accounts Officer)	Assistant to Accounts Officer, & Dealing of all cases of Accounts Section.
10	Stanzin Yongdus (Jr. Statistical Assistant)	Assisting Planning Section
11	Abbass Ali (Jr. Assistant)	Assisting- Accounts Section, Establishment & Legal Section
12	Sonam Chosphel	Assisting Establishment and Planning Section.
13	Abdul Hussain	Orderly

Schemes

Financial Year: 2021-22(Rs in Lakhs)

S.No	Head of Account	Name of Work/Scheme	Approved Outlay 2020-21	Expenditure 2020-21
1	State Capex 5452-Tourism	New Works &Ongoing Works	3000.00	2293.89
	Total		3000.00	2293.89
2	SDP (capital Component)	New Works &Ongoing Works	6095.00	1071.00
	Total		6095.00	1071.00
3	SDP (Revenue Component)	Promotion of Eco-Tourism including Homestays & related activities	500.00	500.00
		Tourism Publicity/Promotion outreach/ Digital Communication and E-platforms \/Winter tourism Events/Ice Hockey and Polo	550.00	116.00
		PMU Consultants	40.00	0.00
		Outsourced already Engaged	20.00	20.00
	Total		1110.00	636.00
3	SDP (M&E)		190.00	128.77
	Total		190.00	128.77
4	Revenue Component (3452-Tourism)	Non Plan	1613.00	1482.00
		Total	1613.00	1482.00

Financial Year: 2022-23

S.No	Head of Account	Name of Work/Scheme	Approved Outlay 2020-21	Expenditure 2020-21
1	State Capex 5452-Tourism	New Works &Ongoing Works	3000.00	On-going
	Total		3000.00
2	SDP (capital Component)	Ongoing Works	5413.00	On-going
		New Works	260.00	On-going
	Total		5413.00
3	SDP (Revenue Component)	Promotion of Eco-Tourism including Homestays & related activities	500.00	On-going
		Tourism Publicity/Promotion outreach/ Digital Communication and E-platforms \/Winter tourism Events/Ice Hockey and Polo	504.00	On-going
		PMU Consultants
		Outsourced already Engaged	0.00
	Total		1004.00
3	SDP (M&E)
	Total
4	Revenue Component (3452-Tourism)	Non Plan	1594.00	On-going
		Total	1594.00

Budget and Expenditure on various Schemes

S.No	Head of Account	Name of Work/Scheme	Approved Outlay 2023-24(in cr)	Expenditure 2023-24(in cr)
1	3452	Revenue(Non-Plan)	17.055	11.29
2	5452	State Sector	30.00	27.58
3	4575	SDP(CAPITAL)	63.68	29.09
4	2575	SDP ( Revenue)	12.61	10.96
		Total	123.345	78.92

RTI

Appellate Authority:

S.No	Name of the Officer	Designation	Contact No	E-mail ID
1	KunzesAngmo	Director	01985-233968	directortourismladakh@gmail.com

Public Information Officers:

S.No	Name of the Officer	Designation	Contact No	E-mail ID
1	Aga Tawha	Assistant Director (H/Q)	01985-233968	directortourismladakh@gmail.com

S.No	Subject	Status
1	Disclosure of Information under Right to Information Act – 2005 Section 4(1)(b)	Click To View

Orders

General Administration Department
Title	Date	View / Download
Order No:166-LA(GAD):-Designation of Nodal Public Grievances Officer for implementation of CPGRAMS in UT Ladakh.	16/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (269 KB) /
Order No: 163-LA(GAD):-Constitution of UT Level Committee for Research on Disability.	15/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (1 MB) /
Order No:158-LA(GAD):-Constitution of Committee for Framing the Procedural Guidelines for Ladakh Industrial Land Allotment Policy 2025-35.	15/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (606 KB) /
Order No.156-LA(GAD):-Final Seniority List of Head Assistant, Senior Assistant, Junior Assistant and Orderly of Secretariat (Subordinate) Services of UT of Ladakh.	10/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (6 MB) /
Notification of Joint Director Department of Archive	03/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (1 MB) /
Order no 140 LA (GAD):-Deputation of Officers/Officials from Union Territory of J&K to Union Territory of Ladakh.	02/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (1 MB) /
Order No.136-LA(GAD):-Transfer and posting…reg.	01/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (961 KB) /
Order No.137-LA(GAD):-Constitution of Internal Committee.	01/04/2025	Accessible Version : View (2 MB) /
Order No.132-LA(GAD):-Final Common Seniority list of Section Officers of UT-Ladakh	25/03/2025	Accessible Version : View (5 MB) /
Order No.129-LA(GAD):-Transfer and Postings of JKAS Officers.	20/03/2025	Accessible Version : View (967 KB) /