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Demchok, Ladakh

Coordinates: 32°42′00″N 79°26′58″E / 32.699910°N 79.449520°E / 32.699910; 79.449520
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For the Chinese part, see [[:Dêmqog, Ngari Prefecture]]. For the disputed area, see [[:Demchok sector]].

Demchok
Village
Demchok is located in Ladakh
Demchok
Demchok
Location in Ladakh, India
Demchok is located in India
Demchok
Demchok
Demchok (India)
Coordinates: 32°42′00″N 79°26′58″E / 32.699910°N 79.449520°E / 32.699910; 79.449520
Country India
StateLadakh
DistrictLeh
TehsilNyoma
PanchayatKoyul
Government
 • SarpanchUgrain Chodon
Area
 • Total33 ha (82 acres)
Elevation
4,200 m (13,800 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total78
 • Density240/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Census code906
[1][2]

Demchok (Tibetan: ཌེམ་ཆོག, Wylie: Demchog, ZYPY: Dêmqog, historical: bDe-mChog[3]), also spelled Demjok, is a village and military encampment in the disputed Demchok sector between China and India. It is administered as part of the Nyoma tehsil in the Leh district of Ladakh by India,[1][4] and claimed by China as part of the Tibet Autonomous Region.[5]: 39 

The Line of Actual Control (LAC) passes along the southeast side of the village, following the Charding Nullah upstream from the nearby Indus River. Across the nullah, less than a kilometre away, is a Chinese-administered village, called Dêmqog.[6] The Indian-claimed border extends 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Demchok, while the Chinese-claimed border extends 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Demchok.[5]: 39, 48 

Description

This village was on an old route linking Ladakh and Tibet along the bank of the Indus River, which is closed as of 2005.[7] Though the Kailash Lake Manasarovar is 300 km away, the route there is mostly through plains.[8]

The village lies 36.5 km east of Ukdungle (32°36′05″N 78°57′54″E / 32.6015°N 78.9651°E / 32.6015; 78.9651). The world’s highest motorable road passing through the Umling La pass (32°41′47″N 79°17′03″E / 32.6964°N 79.2842°E / 32.6964; 79.2842) in Ladakh at a height of 19,300 feet (5,900 m) connects to Demchok.[9][10]

Demographics

Map including Demchok (Army Map Service, 1954)
Map showing disputed areas in Ladakh, including Demchok in southeast

Demchok (ཌེམ་ཆོཀ་) had 31 households according to the 2011 census of India. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 42.47%.[11]

Demographics (2011 Census)[11]
Total Male Female
Population 78 43 35
Children aged below 6 years 5 4 1
Scheduled caste 1 1 0
Scheduled tribe 64 37 27
Literates 31 20 11
Workers (all) 51 27 24
Main workers (total) 49 26 23
Main workers: Cultivators 5 5 0
Main workers: Agricultural labourers 0 0 0
Main workers: Household industry workers 2 0 2
Main workers: Other 42 21 21
Marginal workers (total) 2 1 1
Marginal workers: Cultivators 0 0 0
Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers 0 0 0
Marginal workers: Household industry workers 0 0 0
Marginal workers: Others 2 1 1
Non-workers 27 16 11

References

  1. ^ a b "Blockwise Village Amenity Directory" (PDF). Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ^ Lack of infra forcing people to migrate from frontier, The Tribune, Chandigar, 17 July 2019.
  3. ^ Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part (Volume) II, by A. H. Francke and edited by F. W. Thomas, (1926), pages 115-116.
  4. ^ https://leh.nic.in/about-district/administrative-setup/village/
  5. ^ a b Lamb, Alastair (1965). "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF). The Australian Year Book of International Law. 1 (1): 37–52.
  6. ^ "Ladakhis deplore Krishna's remark on Demchok road". Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
  7. ^ "hindu.com - Ladakhis await re-opening of this historic Tibet route". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. ^ "expressindia.com - 'Issue of opening Demchok road with China taken up'". Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  9. ^ "BRO builds world's highest motorable road in Ladakh at 19,300 feet". Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Achievements of West Dte during the F/Y 2016-17" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  11. ^ a b "Leh district census". 2011 Census of India. Directorate of Census Operations. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
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