<span style="color: #222222;">Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh R K Mathur and Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh discussed COVID situation and other issues including revival of development activity in the newly created Union Territory, in New Delhi today. The LG  thanked the Minister for his day-to-day support and for facilitating central assistance during the pandemic.<br />'' <br />'' Dr. Jitendra Singh conveyed to the Lieutenant Governor, the Government's appreciation for the consistent diligence and effort with which the Union Territory administration had dealt with the COVID pandemic and also succeeded in containing it. He noted that it was Ladakh which had caused initial alarm for the entire country when suddenly a number of cases reported Corona positive from amongst returnees from Iran pilgrimage. The Minister said, it goes to the credit of the administration and the civil society that Ladakh is among the first to gradually come out from the Corona assault.<br />'' <br />'' Dr Singh thanked Prime Minister  Narendra Modi for his clear instructions to give priority to peripheral areas of Ladakh and North East, as a result of which Air Cargo supplies started reaching there even before the lockdown. He added, as of today, the store of ration, vegetables and fruit in Ladakh is in much bigger quantity than it would have normally been otherwise in this part of the year.<br />'' <br />'' Mr Mathur also apprised Dr. Singh of the current situation and said that now an effort is being made to revive the development activity. He also discussed some of the projects related to power generation and construction work which had got delayed due to the pandemic and said that very soon these would be revived.<br />'' <br />'' Among the various projects in the pipeline, Dr. Singh also mentioned the project for processing of "Leh Berry" for which the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has prepared a plan.</span><br />''