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India’s First ‘Night Sky Sanctuary’ To Be Set Up In Ladakh: Minister

The project in Ladakh will be completed within three months, the minister said. (Representational)New Delhi: India's first-ever "Night Sky Sanctuary" will be set up in Ladakh within the next three months, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday."India's first-ever 'Night Sky Sanctuary' will be set up in Ladakh as a part of Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary and the proposed 'Dark Sky Reserve' will be completed at Hanle in Ladakh within three months that will boost astro-tourism in India and will be one of the world's highest-located sites for optical, infra-red, and gamma-ray telescopes," said Mr Singh.A tripartite MoU was signed recently among the UT administration, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) for launching the...