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Ladakh Land and Job Regulations of 2025
June 10 , 2025
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- President Droupadi Murmu notified the Union Territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Regulation, 2025
- It amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 in Ladakh’s context.
- The total percentage of reservation shall in no case exceed 85%, excluding the reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).
- The total reservation for government jobs in the UT now stands at 95%, one of the highest in the country.
- Meghalaya has 85% reservation for Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCs/STs) and Arunachal Pradesh has an 80% quota for ST.
- Following Three other Regulations were also notified by President:
- The Ladakh Official Languages Regulation, 2025;
- The Ladakh Civil Services Decentralisation and Recruitment (Amendment) Regulation, 2025; and
- The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (Amendment) Regulation, 2025.
- “English, Hindi, Urdu, Bhoti and Purgi” shall be the official languages of Ladakh.
- Special efforts for the promotion and development of other native languages of Ladakh: Shina (Dardic), Brokskat (Dardic), Balti and Ladakhi.
- For other residents — including children of Central government officials — are to be considered “domiciles”.
- Its rules, also notified by the MHA, specified the criteria to qualify as a “domicile” to apply for government jobs.
- But they will have to show 15 years of the continuous residence in the UT from October 31, 2019, Ladakh’s foundation day.
- In a first, a third of the seats in hill councils have been reserved for women on a rotational basis.
- The regulation is to amend the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils Act, 1997.
- After initial jubilation in 2019, the protests began in 2020 at Ladakh with four specific demands:
- Statehood for Ladakh,
- Inclusion of Ladakh in the sixth schedule of the constitution thus giving it a tribal status,
- Job reservation for locals, and
- A Parliamentary seat each for Leh and Kargil.
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