With the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, the number of states in the country has come down to 28 and the number of Union Territories has gone up to nine.
The department is in consultation with the Leh Deputy Commissioner and the Ladakh Hill Development Council has identified 201 Kanals of land at Shey Sindhu Ghat village for the college.
Sri Lanka was one of the first countries to acknowledge that India's decision regarding Article 370 and Jammu and Kashmir's bifurcation are its internal matters.