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	Shri. Sanjit Rodrigues(IAS)	Admin. Secy	Adm. Secy. of Tourism & Culture, UT Ladakh
2	Shri. Tsering Paldan (JKAS)	Director Tourism	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
3	Shri. Mohd Taqi(JKAS)	Deputy Director (H&Q)	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
4	Shri. Shabir Ahmad	Accounts Officer	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
5	Smt. Zarina Banoo	Private Secretary	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
6	Shri. Najum ul Huda	Associate Law Officer	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
7	Shri. Tsering Punchok	Chauffeur	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
8	Shri. Murtaza Ali	Statistical Assistant	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
9	Shri. Anwar Ali	Account Assistant	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
10	Shri. Stanzin Yongdus	Junior Statistical Assistant	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
11	Shri. Abbass Ali	Junior Assistant	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
12	Shri. Sonam Chospel	Junior Assistant	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
13	Shri. Shujat Hussain	Orderly/Chowkidar Cum Farash/Safaiwala/Farash Cum Washerman	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil
14	Miss. Rehana Parveen	Orderly/Chowkidar Cum Farash/Safaiwala/Farash Cum Washerman	Directorate of Tourism & Culture,HQ Kargil

Role & Responsibilities

S.No	Name of the Officer/Official	Role & Responsibility
1	Shri. Tsering Paldan (JKAS)	Head of the Department.
2	Shri. Mohd Taqi (JKAS)	Monitoring & Supervision of the Directorate.
3	Shri. Shabir Ahmad	DDO, Monitoring & Supervision of Accounts Section.
4	Smt. Zarina Banoo	Administrative support.
5	Shri. Najum ul Huda	Litigation Management & Representation, Liaison with the Government Counsel, Monitoring & Compliance and legal advisory & opinion work.
6	Shri. Tsering Punchok	Office Vehicle Maintenance and Upkeep.
7	Shri. Murtaza Ali	Planning Section. Handling of all planning and statistical works, providing opinion on Budget and capital Expenditure, Maintenance of MPR, QPR and review works being executed by the sub-ordinate office’s.
8	Shri. Anwar Ali	Assistant to Accounts Officer & dealing of all cases of Accounts Section.
9	Shri. Stanzin Yongdus	Assisting Planning Section.
10	Shri. Abbass Ali	Assisting- Accounts Section, Establishment & Legal Section.
11	Shri. Sonam Chosphel	Assisting Establishment and Planning Section.
12	Shri. Shujat Hussain
13	Miss. Rehana Parveen

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	Shri. Tsering Paldan (JKAS)	Director	01985-233968	directortourismladakh@gmail.com

Public Information Officers:

S.No	Name of the Officer	Designation	Contact No	E-mail ID
1	Mohd Taqi(JKAS)	Deputy Director Tourism (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
Study visit of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development to Leh from 10th to 12th July 2021 Assigning of responsibilities there of.	06/07/2021	Accessible Version : View (3 MB)
Study Visit of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development to Leh, Ladakh w.e.f 10th July 2021 to 12th July 2021.	06/07/2021	Accessible Version : View (4 MB)
Order: Designation and deployment of Venue Coordinators reg DPRSC visit to Leh	03/07/2021	Accessible Version : View (893 KB)
Visit of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports to Leh w.e.f 4th to 6th July 2021 – deployment of liaison officers thereof.	02/07/2021	Accessible Version : View (1 MB)
Visit of the Department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports to Leh w.e.f 4th to 6th July 2021 designation and deployment of liaison officers thereof.	01/07/2021	Accessible Version : View (2 MB)
Constitution of State Steering Committee(SSC) and State Executive Committee(SEC) under Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA) in UT of Ladakh	30/06/2021	Accessible Version : View (2 MB)
Constitution of the Selection Board for appointment of Zila Sainik Walfare Officer-Cum Secretary in UT of Ladakh.	30/06/2021	Accessible Version : View (1 MB)
Deputation of Officer from UT of J&K to Union territory of Ladakh.	28/06/2021	Accessible Version : View (612 KB)
Constitution of UT Level Distribution Reform Committee (DRC) to recommend, review and monitor the progress of implementation of Urban Electrification Schemes of Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (R-APDRP) and integrated Power Development.	25/06/2021	Accessible Version : View (687 KB)
Nomination of officers for participation the Regional Conference on Good Governance to be held on 1st and 2nd July 2021	25/06/2021	Accessible Version : View (807 KB)