t.co/LVWKXYCkJM ---------------------------------------- Plain rubbish. My response follows... ---------------------------------- I am shocked and apalled to read the RAJESH KALRA Blog, RANDOM ACCESS in the Times of India. The heading of the article on the Pin Valley with its inhabitants threatening to walk over to China is meant to attract eyeballs with ill researched, half baked facts and distotions that have resulted from what appears the increasing tendency to publish unverified stuff by this publication set up whether in its print on TV mode... Pin Valley is an alpine valley in Himachal Pradesh with heights ranging from 12000 to 20,000 feet. It can be accessed from the Shimla as well as Manali sides. The Shimla route is via Shimla-Rampur Bushair, Pooh, Sugar Sector, Kaza which is deep in Spiti Valley- village Mikkim, which is the road head, then trekking the last ten or so kms to the Pin Valley National Park (declared in 1987 to preserve the Snow Leopard, alpine herbs etc) which is the size of the valley, about 1845 square kms... The Manali route is more demanding and involves climbing the Rohtang Pass, descending and travelling past Chandra Tal, somewhat to your left in the Lahaul Valley, to Kunzom Pass at 16,500, then descending into Spiti Valley, past Losar to Kaza, then Mikkim. I have traveled on this route. Kaza to Mikkim is 30 kms and Mikkim to the Park entry is 10 kms, hence the Valley is NOT on the LAC for people to just walk into China...It has been a Himachali turf for almost 500 years and more, certainly since the 16th century. The Valley has 17 villages of Bhutias spread ovet the 1845 square kms with a net population of 1650 people, which is what is the norm really in the whole Lahaul-Spiti area which is remote and high altitude in the main. So are the Bhutias here doing anything more than expressing their democratic right to protest and demand development? Are their cribs to be published in this irresponsible manner by a paper claiming to best amongst the worlds best? With a population of one man/women per square kilometer, is SECESSION in the minds of these simple villagers? Some one has to be seriously joking...or taking readership for a real ride. Itglosses over the core issue that development should reach these villages faster than it has these last six decades and instead, focuses on threat of secession...Poor Show.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:13:37 +0000
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